| 1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) 1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl  | 1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight 1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II  | 1854 Crimean War with Russia 1869 Opening of Suez Canal 1871 Franco - Prussian War 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy 1899 Boer War begins  | 
![]()  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  Samuel Pocklington b.1845 BOSTON.LIN!. d.1878 OAMARU.NEW ZEALA  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  George Pocklington b.1879 Glasgow, Lanark, Sct d.1926 OAMARU.N.Z.  |  Ann Baird b.1847 GLASGOW.SCT. d.1895 OAMARU.NEW ZEALA  | |||||
![]()  |  Arthur D. G. Pocklington b.1910 d.  | |||||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Lydia Louisa Simpson b.1880 d.1925 N.Z.  | ||||||
|  R.D. Pocklington b. d.  | ![]()  | |||||||
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![]()  |  Joyce Meril Seitz b. d.  | |||||||
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