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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
 Thomas Smith
 b.1775 Walsall
 d.         
 Frederick Bentley Smith
 b.1799 Walsall, Staffordshire
 d.1868 Walsall, Staffordshire
 Ann Maria Hunt
 b.1779 Walsall
 d.         
 Joseph Howes Smith
 b.1829 Staffordshire
 d.1888
 Jane Howes
 b.1806
 d.1908
 Frederick Charles Smith
 b.1858 Walsall, Staffordshire
 d.1913 St Petersburg, Russia
 Charles Attwood 
 b.1789 Great Barr, Staffordshire
 d.         
 Mary Jane Attwood 
 b.1826 Wednesbury, Staffordshire
 d.         
 Phoebe (Phebe) Howard
 b.1791 handsworth
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