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. | ||||||||