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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
 Robert SMERDON
 b.1766 Widecombe In T, England
 d.1848 Newton Abbot, England
 John SMERDON
 b.1798 Ipplepen, Devon, England
 d.1840 Devon, England
 Elizabeth NECK
 b.1770 Devon, England
 d.1838 Ipplepen, Devon, England
 Charles Cowell SMERDON
 b.1834 Newton Abbot, England
 d.1909 Newton Abbot, England
 Mary COWELL
 b.1795 Newton Abbot, England
 d.1851
 Mary MADDICOTT
 b.1830 Abbotskerswell, England
 d.