Robert Burns, b: 1825 -

^{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}




	^{Harriette Elizabeth .M. Burns}^b.1845 d.		^{Robert Burns}^{b.1825 d.1894}

	^{Robert James Burns}^{b.1847 St. Pancras, London. d.1931 Broadoak, London.}

	^{William Burns}^b.1849 d.

	^Henry Burns^b.1852 d.

			^{Harriette Thwaites}^{b.1830 d.1902}