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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
 Marmaduke Ward
 b.          Trunch, Nfk.
 d.         
 Rev-Phillip Ward
 b.1795 Trunch, Nfk.
 d.1859
 
 
 
 Maj-William George Ward
 b.1820 Bircham Newton, Nfk.
 d.1878
 Lord-Horatio Nelson
 b.1758 Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.
 d.1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
 Horatia Nelson
 b.1801 Merton, London.
 d.1881 Pinner, Middsx.
 Lady-Emma Hamilton
 b.1761 Gt. Neston, Cheshire.
 d.1815 Calais
 Cdr-Edward Blanckley
 b.         
 d.         
 Catherine V.N. Blanckley
 b.1835
 d.         
 George Matcham
 b.1763 Norfolk.
 d.1833 Kensington, London.
 Harriet Matcham
 b.1794 Hoadland, Ssx.
 d.1838 Plymouth. Devon.
 Catherine Nelson
 b.1767 Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.
 d.1842 Kensington, London.