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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
 Frederick Purvis
 b.          Hull, Yorks.
 d.         
 Robert Ernest Purvis
 b.1879 Hull, Yorks.
 d.         
 Edith Alice Purvis
 b.1900
 d.         
 Henrietta
 b.          Hull, Yorks.
 d.         
 Hetty Purvis
 b.1903 Goole, Yorks.
 d.         
 Harold Purvis
 b.1912 Sculcoates, Hull, Yorks.
 d.         
 Francis Lee
 b.1853 Scotland
 d.1891
 Alice Lee
 b.1875 Whitgift, Goole, Yorks.
 d.         
 Joseph Lawrence
 b.1833 Rawcliffe, Yorks
 d.1895 Whitgift, Yorks
 Mary Ann Lawrence
 b.1857 Ousefleet, Yorks
 d.1891
 Frances Coulson
 b.1833 Ousefleet, Yorks
 d.1919 Goole, Yorks