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1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1798 Irish revolt against English rule
1804 Napoleon becomes French Emperor
1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson killed
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
 Joseph Pocklington
 b.1798 Birkin, Yorks
 d.1883
 James Pocklington
 b.1843 Wistow, Yorks
 d.1905
 Ann Thomson
 b.         
 d.1885 Selby, Lincs.
 Robert Jackson Pocklington
 b.1871
 d.1952
 Martha Jackson
 b.1849
 d.1911
 Kate Hurst
 b.1871
 d.1958