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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.         
 Margaret Haltoft
 b.          of Lincolnshire.
 d.