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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
 Sir-Thomas Burgh
 b.1488 1st. Lord Burgh
 d.1549
 Sir-Edward Burgh
 b.         
 d.1529
 Alice London
 b.         
 d.1559
 Sir-William Parr
 b.1434
 d.1484
 Sir-Thomas Parr
 b.1484
 d.         
 Elizabeth Fitzhugh
 b.         
 d.1508
 Catherine Parr
 b.1512 Kendal Castle, Cumb
 d.1548 Sudeley Castle, Glouc
 Maud Green
 b.         
 d.