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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
 Ambrose HITCHON
 b.1813 Whalley, Lancs
 d.1891 Burnley, Lancs
 Amos HITCHON
 b.1851 Whalley, Lancs
 d.1932 Blackpool, Lancs
 Agnes BAMBER
 b.1817 Mearton or Marton
 d.1886 Burnley, Lancs
 Ambrose HITCHON
 b.1889 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1961 Bournmouth, Hants.
 Nancy SANDIFORD
 b.1859 Compstall, Cheshire
 d.1896 Barrowford, Lancs
 Mabel Audrey HITCHON
 b. Private
 d.         
 Mabel SOUTHWORTH
 b.1896 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1954 Chelsea, London