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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
 Charles Pocklington
 b.1838 Wistow, Yorks.
 d.         
 John Pocklington
 b.1866 Abb, Yorks. (Tadcaster)
 d.1926 Sunderland.
 Eliza Fletcher
 b.1839 Liverpool, Lancs.
 d.1881 Sunderland.
 Joseph Pocklington
 b.1899 Bishop Auckla, Co Duham
 d.1983
 H Pocklington
 b.         
 d.         
 Margaret Jane Swift
 b.          Bishop Auckland.
 d.1918 Bishop Auckland.
 Joseph Pocklington
 b.1926 Sunderland.
 d.2004 Australia.
 Isabel Davison
 b.1902
 d.1970 Sunderland.