| 1538 Cortes conquers Mexico  1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia 1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen 1580 Drake completes voyage around world 1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced  | 1492 Columbus discovers West Indies 1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India 1503 Leonard da Vinci paints Mona Lisa 1512 Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel 1534 Henry VIII controls English church  | 1434 Medici rules in Florence 1440 Gutenberg, printing w/type 1453 End of Hundred Years War 1479 Formation of kingdom of Spain 1488 Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope  | 
|  John Shelton b.1472 Shelton, Norfolk. d.1539  |  Sir-Ralph Shelton b.1430 19th Lord of Shelton Ma d.1497  | |||||||
|  Ralph Shelton b.1478 Shelton, Norfolk. d.1538 Brome, Suffolk.  | ||||||||
|  Elizabeth Shelton b.1481 Shelton, Norfolk. d.  | ![]()  | |||||||
|  Alice Shelton b.1486 Shelton, Norfolk. d.  | ||||||||
|  Richard Shelton b.1487 Shelton, Norfolk. d.  |  Margaret Clere b.1438 Ormseby, Norfolk. d.1501  | |||||||
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