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1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
 Thomas Knapton
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 John Knapton
 b.1814 Leeds, Yorkshire
 d.1884 Vickersdale, Yorkshire
 Mary Marshall
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 John Marshall Knapton
 b.1845 Angel Yards, Yorkshire
 d.1914 Cavendish Squar, Beckbottom
 John Wilson
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 Hannah Wilson
 b.1821 Hunslet, Yorkshire
 d.1898 Bramley district
 Susanna ?
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