| 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 Walpole b.1431 Houghton, Nfk. d.1494  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Thomas Walpole b.1456 Houghton, Nfk. d.1512 King's Lynn, Nfk.  |  Elizabeth Shawe b.1434 Derbyshire. d.1494  | |||||
![]()  |  Henry Walpole b.1486 of Harpley. d.1549  | ![]()  |  William Cobbe b. of Sandringham. d.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Joan Cobbe b.1461 Sandringham, Nfk. d.1514  |  Elizabeth Alwin b. d.  | |||||
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![]()  |  Margaret Haltoft b. of Lincolnshire. d.  | |||||||
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