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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
 Peter HITCHON
 b.1823 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1878 Burnley, Lancs
 Alfred HITCHON
 b.1848 Trap Cottage, Lancs
 d.1944 Withycombe Ralei, Devon
 Helena WILKINSON
 b.1823 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1900 Blackpool, Lancs
 Ughtred HITCHON
 b.1870 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1945 Purema, NEW ZEALAND
 John Binney LORD
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Mary LORD
 b.1849 Sawley, Clitheroe, Lancs
 d.1917 Wilpshire, Lancs
 Grace MARSDEN
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Margaret (Maggie) PARKINSON
 b.         
 d.          Y/