| 1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia 1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen 1580 Drake completes voyage around world 1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced 1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada  | 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 1538 Cortes conquers Mexico  | 1440 Gutenberg, printing w/type 1453 End of Hundred Years War 1479 Formation of kingdom of Spain 1488 Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope 1492 Columbus discovers West Indies  | 
|  Anne Boleyn b.1475 Blickling, Norfolk. d.1557  | ![]()  | |||||||
|  Thomas Boleyn b.1477 Earl of Wiltshire d.1539 Hever, Kent.  | ![]()  |  Geoffrey Boleyn b. d.  | ||||||
|  John Boleyn b.1481 Blickling, Norfolk. d.1484  |  William Boleyn b.1449 Blickling, Norfolk. d.1505 Hever, Kent.  | |||||||
|  Anthony Boleyn b.1483 Blickling, Norfolk. d.1493  | ![]()  |  Anne Thomas b. d.  | ||||||
|  Jane Boleyn b.1485 Blickling, Norfolk. d.  | ![]()  | |||||||
|  Alice Boleyn b.1487 Blickling, Norfolk. d.1538  | ||||||||
|  Margaret Boleyn b.1489 of Sussex. d.  |  Marguerite Butler b.1455 London, Middsx. d.1537  | |||||||
|  William Boleyn b.1491 Blickling, Norfolk. d.  | ||||||||
|  James Boleyn b.1493 Blickling, Norfolk. d.  | ![]()  | |||||||
|  Edward Boleyn b.1495 Blickling, Norfolk. d.  | ||||||||