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1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
 Sam Farrant
 b.1880
 d.         
 Simon Coombe
 b.1816 Okehampton, England
 d.1870 Okehampton, England
 John Coombe
 b.1854 Okehampton, England
 d.1945 Burlington, Canada
 Ann Fey
 b.1819 Colebrooke, England
 d.1899 Bristol, England
 Mabel R Coombe
 b.1883 Westbury, England
 d.1955
 John Wood
 b.1829 Colyton, Devon, England
 d.         
 Elizabeth Mary Wood
 b.1854 Sidbury, Devon, England
 d.1931, Canada
 Ann Banks
 b.1832 Northleigh, England
 d.