| 1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) 1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl  | 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  | 
![]()  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  Frederick Purvis b. Hull, Yorks. d.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Robert Ernest Purvis b.1879 Hull, Yorks. d.  |  Henrietta b. Hull, Yorks. d.  | |||||
![]()  |  Harold Purvis b.1912 Sculcoates, Hull, Yorks. d.  | ![]()  |  Francis Lee b.1853 Scotland d.1891  | |||||
|  M.H. Purvis b. d.  | ![]()  |  Alice Lee b.1875 Whitgift, Goole, Yorks. d.  |  Mary Ann Lawrence b.1857 Ousefleet, Yorks d.1891  | |||||
|  M.E. Purvis b. d.  | ![]()  | |||||||
|  K. Purvis b. d.  | ![]()  |  Daniel Currie b. d.  | ||||||
![]()  |  Ellen Sloan Currie b.1906 Ballymacvea, Ireland. d.1985 Whiteabbey, Ireland.  | |||||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Margaret Sloan b. d.  | ||||||
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