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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
1804 Napoleon becomes French Emperor
1805 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson killed
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
 Thomas Pocklington
 b.1805 Holbeach, Lincs
 d.1878 Grantham, Lincs
 Hanson Edward Pocklington
 b.1853 Grantham, Lincs
 d.         
 Emily Ann Pocklington
 b.1859 Grantham, Lincs
 d.         
 Ann
 b.1821 Kirby Underwood, Lincs.
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