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1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen
1580 Drake completes voyage around world
1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced
1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada
1611 Authorized English Bible published
1503 Leonard da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
1512 Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel
1534 Henry VIII controls English church
1538 Cortes conquers Mexico
1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia
1453 End of Hundred Years War
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
 Thomas Gray
 b.1455 Groby, Leicestershire
 d.1501 Astley, Warwicks
 Thomas Gray
 b.1477 Bashall, Yorkshire
 d.1530
 Cecily Bonville
 b.1461 Chewton Mendi, Somerset
 d.1529 Astley, Warwicks
 Sir-Henry Gray
 b.1517 Duke of Suffolk, K.G..
 d.1554 Executed at the Tower of L
 Robert Wotton
 b.1460 Dorsetshire
 d.         
 Margaret Wotton
 b.1486 Dorsetshire
 d.1535
 Anne Belknapp
 b.1460 Dorsetshire
 d.