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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
 William HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1833 Dilworth, Lancs
 d.1867 Newton, Lancs
 James HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1854 Preston, Lancs
 d.1909 Preston, Lancs
 Dorothy BAINES
 b.1825 Capernwray, Lancs
 d.1908 Rye, Sussex
 George HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1887 Accrington, Lancs
 d.1917 1914/18 Wa, FRANCE
 Sarah Ann HOWARD
 b.1857 Macclesfield, Cheshire
 d.1895 Accrington, Lancs
 Ann CUNLIFFE
 b.1885 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1926 Preston, Lancs