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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 Edward DUCKWORTH
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 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
 Ada HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1890 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Sarah Ann HOWARD
 b.1857 Macclesfield, Cheshire
 d.1895 Accrington, Lancs