| 1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia 1558 Elizabeth I is England's queen 1580 Drake completes voyage around world 1582 New Gregorian calendar introduced 1588 English defeat the Spanish Armada  | 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 1538 Cortes conquers Mexico  | 1440 Gutenberg, printing w/type 1453 End of Hundred Years War 1479 Formation of kingdom of Spain 1488 Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope 1492 Columbus discovers West Indies  | 
![]()  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  Sir-Thomas Blennerhassett b.1449 Frenze, Nfk. d.1531 Frenze, Nfk.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  George Blennerhassett b.1481 Frenze, Nfk. d.1543  |  Jane Sutton b.1453 Frenze, Nfk. d.  | |||||
![]()  |  Edward [Edmund] Blennerhassett b. Frenze, Nfk. d.  | ![]()  |  Edward Jermingham b. Somerleyton d.  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Margarett Jermingham b.1501 Somerleyton, Suff. d.  |   | |||||
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![]()  |  Ms Dade b. Witton, Nfk. d.  | |||||||
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