| 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. | ||||||||