1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) 1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl | 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 |
John Gibson METCALFE b.1890 d.1968 | ||||||||
Gordon METCALFE b. d. | Thomas Ski HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1851 Roeburndale, Lancs d.1931 Burrow with Burro, Lancs | |||||||
John HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1877 Roeburndale, Lancs d.1951 Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria | Isabella MAUDSLEY b.1855 Rathmell, Settle, Yorks d.1935 Lunesdale, Lancs | |||||||
Doris May HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1901 Keighly, Yorks d.1977 | ||||||||
Elizabeth Eleanor NELSON b.1872 d.1951 Westmorland S, Cumbria | ||||||||