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1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
 
 
 
 Wilfrid HOPE
 b.1885 Bideford, Devon
 d.          Y/
 William HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1817 Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
 d.1877 Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
 Sarah Jane HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1855 Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
 d.1896 Barbon, Lancs
 Elizabeth METCALFE
 b.1823 Ingleton, Yorks
 d.1895 Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
 Elsie HOPE
 b.1916 Chorlton, Lancs
 d.1979 Bolton, Lancs