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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
 Frederick Ralph RIGBY
 b.1867
 d.          Y/
 Fred RIGBY
 b.1894 Alston, Longridge, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 George HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1817 Batrix, Yorks
 d.1901 Higher Wood Ho, Yorks
 James Haythornthwaite RIGBY
 b.1935 Slaidburn, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Margaret HAYTHORNTHWAI
 b.1865 Woodhouse, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Ann BRIGGS
 b.1824
 d.1883 Higher Wood Ho, Yorks
 Edward RIGBY
 b.1939 Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Meta Elizabeth KINDER
 b.         
 d.