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 |
Rev H A BIRCH b. Private d. | ||||||||
Rev. Edwar HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1850 Greenhead, Yorks d.1899 Gateshead, Dur | ||||||||
Rev. James HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1879 Felling, Northld d.1967 Bakewell, Derbys | Elizabeth Bell THOMPSON b.1852 Workington, Cumbria d.1925 Sunderland, Dur | |||||||
Mary Elizab HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1923 Sheffield, Yorks d.1993 Manchester, Lancs | ||||||||
Christina C DOWNIE b.1886 d.1945 Sheffield, Yorks | ||||||||