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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
 Joseph Giles
 b.1805 Ermington, England
 d.1876
 Herbert Joseph Pitts Giles
 b.1843 Holbeton, Devon, England
 d.1932
 Maria Pitts
 b.1801 Holbeton, Devon, England
 d.1879
 Herbert Giles
 b.1881 Wembury, England
 d.         
 Henry Dawe
 b.1819 Yealmpton, England
 d.         
 Mary Dawe
 b.1854 Newton Ferrers, England
 d.         
 Marina Dawe
 b.1824 Blackawton, England
 d.         
 William Henry Collingwood
 b.         
 d.         
 Dorothy Collingwood
 b.1893 Plymouth, England
 d.         
 John Slee
 b.1836 Holsworthy, England
 d.         
 Elizabeth Parsons Slee
 b.1865 Ashburton, England
 d.         
 Mary A Parsons
 b.1831 Warbstow, England
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