| 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 Egerton b.1453 Wrinehill, Staffs. d.1518  | |||||||
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|  Isabel Egerton b.1496 Wrinehill, Staffs. d.  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  Ralph Brereton b.1434 Brereton, Cheshire d.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Randle Brereton b.1452 Cheshire. d.  |  Catherine Bulkeley b. Brereton, Cheshire. d.  | |||||
![]()  |  Eleanor Brereton b.1476 Ipsones, Cheshire. d.1567  | |||||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Emma Carrington b.1457 Carrington, Cheshire. d.  | ||||||
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