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1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 James Frederick Tompkins
 b.         
 d.         
 Jón Þorvaldsson
 b.1821 Stóri-Kroppur, Iceland
 d.1872 Iceland
 Þorvaldur Jónsson Reykdal
 b.1864 Reyk, Borgarfjarðarsýsla
 d.1947 at daughters home (Berth
 Helga JONSDOTTIR
 b.1835 Deild, Borgarfjarðarsýsla
 d.1916 Lundar, Manitoba
 Kirstin Reykdal
 b.1896 Sayersville, New Jersey
 d.1949
 Bjarni Björnsson
 b.         
 d.1870
 Kristín Bjarnadóttir
 b.1862 Laugardal, Árnessýsla
 d.1948 at the home of her daught
 Elín Guðmundsdóttir
 b.1824 Miðdalssók, Árnessýsla
 d.1901 alive for 1901 census at