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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
1804 Napoleon becomes French Emperor
1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson killed
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
 Peter HITCHON
 b.1800 Whalley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Peter HITCHON
 b.1840 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1887 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Elizabeth MOOR
 b.1812
 d.1845 Whalley, Lancs
 Archibald HITCHON
 b.1869 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1935 Grindleton, Yorks
 Annie Margaret HITCHON
 b.1903
 d.1956 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Ann BIRTWHISTLE
 b.1831 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1916 Whalley, Lancs
 John Charles HITCHON
 b.1905 Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Sarah Ann HOLGATE
 b.1871 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1941 Grindleton, Yorks