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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
1762 Catherine II becomes Czarina/Russia
1770 Cook discovers New South Wales
1776 America declares independence
1789 Geo. Washington 1st USA president
1789 French Revolution begins
 William Rainbird
 b.1758 Ess.
 d.1838 Kelvedon Hatch, Ess.
 Daniel Rainbird
 b.1795 Kelvedon Hatch, Ess.
 d.1869 South Weald, Ess.
 Elizabeth Skingley
 b.1765 Ess.
 d.1808
 Mary Rainbird
 b.1819 South Weald, Ess.
 d.1848
 Mary Davis
 b.1788
 d.1873 South Weald, Ess.