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1580 Drake completes voyage around world
1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced
1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada
1611 Authorized English Bible published
1613 Romanov dynasty begins in Russia
1512 Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel
1534 Henry VIII controls English church
1538 Cortes conquers Mexico
1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia
1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen
1479 Formation of kingdom of Spain
1488 Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope
1492 Columbus discovers West Indies
1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India
1503 Leonard da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
 Thomas Howard
 b.1473 3rd. Duke of Norfolk
 d.1554 Kenninghall, Norfolk
 Henry Howard
 b.1517 Earl of Surrey. KG
 d.1547
 Elizabeth Stafford
 b.1497 Abergavenny, Monmouth
 d.1558 Lambeth
 Thomas Howard
 b.1537 Corby Castle, Norfolk.
 d.1572 Tower Hill, London
 John de Vere
 b.1483 15th. Earl of Oxford
 d.         
 Lady-Frances de Vere
 b.1517
 d.1577
 Elizabeth Trussel
 b.1493
 d.         
 Margaret Howard
 b.1561 Saffron Walden, Essex.
 d.1591 Knole House, Kent.
 Hon. Margaret Audley
 b.1545 of Saffron Walden, Essex.
 d.1564 Norwich, Norfolk.