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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
 Edward WRIGHT
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Joseph HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1814 Batrix, Yorks
 d.1874 Salford, Lancs
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1847 Cockley Bank, Yorks
 d.1891 Ormskirk, Lancs
 Bridget HARRISON
 b.1811 Bottoms Farm, Yorks
 d.1879 Oswaldtwistle, Lancs
 Elizabeth HAYTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1871 Bury, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Isabella WALKER
 b.1851
 d.1874 Bury, Lancs