| 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  | 
![]()  | ![]()  |  Henry Tudor b.1457 Henry VI, King of England d.1509 Sheen, Richmond, Surrey  | ||||||
![]()  |  Henry Tudor b.1491 King Henry VIII of Englan d.1547  | ![]()  |  Edward Plantagenet b.1442 Edward I, King of England d.1483  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Elizabeth Plantagenet b.1466 Elizabeth of York d.1503 Tower of London.  |  Elizabeth Woodville b.1437 d.1492  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  William Boleyn b.1449 Blickling, Norfolk. d.1505 Hever, Kent.  | ||||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Thomas Boleyn b.1477 Earl of Wiltshire d.1539 Hever, Kent.  |  Marguerite Butler b.1455 London, Middsx. d.1537  | |||||
![]()  |  Anne Boleyn b.1501 Norfolk. (styled LadyMar d.1536 Tower , Tower of London.  | ![]()  |  Thomas Howard b. 2nd Duke of Norfolk. d.1524 Farlingham Castle, Nfk  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Elizabeth Howard b.1486 Norfolk. d.1537  |  Elizabeth Tilney b. d.  | |||||
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