| 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  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Thomas Howard b. 2nd Duke of Norfolk. d.1524 Farlingham Castle, Nfk  | ||||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Lord-Edmund Howard b.1480 Tisbury, Wilts d.1539  |  Elizabeth Tylney b.1462 Ashwellthorpe, Norkolk d.1497  | |||||
![]()  |  Catherine Howard b.1525 Lambeth, London d.1542 Tower of London. ( behe  | ![]()  |  Sir-Richard Culpeper b. d.1507  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Joyce Culpeper b.1507 d.  |  Joyce Worsley b.1493 d.  | |||||
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