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American Declaration of Independence
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Edmund Cartwright patents a power loom
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French Revolution
The French Revolution is duration of time covering the years 1789-1799, in which the ‘Monarchy’ was disestablished and reassembling was forced onto the Roman Catholic Church.The French Revolution impacted on Australia dramatically. The main reason why Australia is a democracy today is because the French Revolution and the fight against the Monarchy. -
Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man is published
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First steam locomotive is operating at Pennydarren, Wales
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Chartism, a working-class movement for male voting and other rights
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Meiji (‘enlightened rule’) Restoration in Japan; feudalism is abandoned and capitalism embraced
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German unification after the Franco-Prussian War leading to Germany’s rise as an imperial power
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Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless (radio)
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Russo-Japanese War; Japan defeats Russia