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1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1804 Napoleon becomes French Emperor
1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson killed
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
 John NORRIS
 b.1835 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 George Arthur NORRIS
 b.1863 Darwen, Lancs
 d.1934 Wilpshire, Lancs
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1804 Batrix, Yorks
 d.1862 Blackburn, Lancs
 James Benson NORRIS
 b.1893 Darwen, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Hannah HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1834 Low Kettlebeck, Yorks
 d.1909 Darwen, Lancs
 Anne HANSON
 b.1804 Hollins, Slaidburn, Yorks
 d.1867 Blackburn, Lancs
 John Herbert Haythorn NORRIS
 b.1890 Darwen, Lancs
 d.1964 Langho, Blackburn, Lancs
 Phoebe Amelia SUTCLIFFE
 b.1867
 d.1948 Wilpshire, Lancs