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1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1798 Irish revolt against English rule
1804 Napoleon becomes French Emperor
1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson killed
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1762 Catherine II becomes Czarina/Russia
1770 Cook discovers New South Wales
1776 America declares independence
1789 Geo. Washington 1st USA president
1789 French Revolution begins
 Frederick HOLGATE
 b.1876 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Thomas HOLGATE
 b.1851 Grindleton, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 John HOLGATE
 b.1878 Turton, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Margaret HOLGATE
 b.1880 Turton, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 William LORD
 b.1783 Sawley, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Annie HOLGATE
 b.1881 Bromley Cross, Lancs
 d.1966 Leytonstone, Essex
 John LORD
 b.1823 Sawley, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Mary ATKINSON
 b.1787 Sawley, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 May HOLGATE
 b.1883 Barrowford, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Margaret LORD
 b.1847 Sawley, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Thomas SPEAK
 b.1766
 d.          Y/
 Thomas HOLGATE
 b.1886 Rishton, Blackburn, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Grace SPEAK
 b.1817 Simonstone, Lancs
 d.          Y/