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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
1770 Cook discovers New South Wales
1776 America declares independence
1789 Geo. Washington 1st USA president
1789 French Revolution begins
1798 Irish revolt against English rule
 Nathaniel Preston
 b.1813 Swainstown, Ireland.
 d.1853
 Nathaniel Francis Preston
 b.1843
 d.1903
 Samuel Pratt Winter
 b.1779 Agher, Ireland.
 d.1830
 Margaret Winter
 b.1817
 d.1845
 Frances Rosetta Bomford
 b.1792 Rahinstown, Ireland.
 d.1830
 Augusta F. Caulfield
 b.          Bloomfield, Ireland.
 d.1911