| 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 |
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![]() | ![]() | John Williams b.1836 Cape of Goo, South Africa d.1901 Warragul, Australia | |||||||
![]() | John McGinnis Williams b.1882 Warragul, Australia d.1971 Southport, Qld., Australia | ![]() | John George Heyburn McGinnis b.1829 Brighton, Australia d.1889 Bendigo, Vic., Australia | ||||||
![]() | ![]() | Ellen McGinnis \ Heyburn b.1859 Eaglehawk, Australia d.1918 Castlemaine, Australia | Johanna Hayes b.1832 Co. Cork, Ireland d.1880 Bendigo, Vic., Australia | ||||||
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![]() | Francis Ann Heyes b.1886 Bolton, England d.1954 Brisbane, Qld., Australia | ||||||||
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