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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/
 Alfred Alston HITCHON
 b.1854 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1932 Fylde, Lancs
 Mary ANON
 b.1812 Penrith, Cumbria
 d.          Y/
 William Graham HITCHON
 b.1879 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1960 Weymouth, Dorset
 Isabella Ann ANON
 b.1855 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1917 Burnley, Lancs
 Dorothy Elizabeth HITCHON
 b.1904 Dorchester, Dorset
 d.1918 Dorchester, Dorset
 Ellen Ely SEBLEY
 b.1880
 d.1945 Dorchester, Dorset