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1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 Peter HITCHON
 b.1840 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1887 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Archibald HITCHON
 b.1869 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1935 Grindleton, Yorks
 Ann BIRTWHISTLE
 b.1831 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1916 Whalley, Lancs
 John Charles HITCHON
 b.1905 Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Sarah Ann HOLGATE
 b.1871 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1941 Grindleton, Yorks
 Alice NUTTER
 b.         
 d.          Y/