Nathaniel COWAN, b: 1885 -

^{1969 Armstrong first person on moon}
^{1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl}
^{1989 Berlin wall falls}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}
^{1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union}

^{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}




			^{Nathaniel COWAN}^{b.1885 d.1941}



	^{Agnes Bedford COWAN}^{b.1924 Dumfries, Scotland d.1992 Dorchester, England}



			^{Helen McMILLAN}^{b.1892 d.1977}