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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
 William Laurence
 b.1802 Snaith, Yorks
 d.1839 Rawcliffe, Yorks
 Mary Ann Lawrence
 b.1857 Ousefleet, Yorks
 d.1891
 Joseph Lawrence
 b.1833 Rawcliffe, Yorks
 d.1895 Whitgift, Yorks
 John Pocklington
 b.1760
 d.1824
 George William Lawrence
 b.1858 Ousefleet, Yorks
 d.1939
 Mary Pocklington
 b.1801 Doncaster, Yorks
 d.1858 Rawcliffe, Yorks
 Elizabeth Oates
 b.         
 d.1829
 Emma Lawrence
 b.1860 Whitgift, Yorks
 d.         
 Alice Lawrence
 b.1863 Whitgift, Yorks
 d.1949 London
 Joseph Lawrence
 b.1867
 d.1961
 Frances Coulson
 b.1833 Ousefleet, Yorks
 d.1919 Goole, Yorks