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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
 Edmund de Compton
 b.1440 of Northampton.
 d.1493
 Sir-William Compton
 b.1492 of Compton W, Warwicks.
 d.1528
 Joan Aylworth
 b.1444 of Northampton.
 d.         
 Peter Compton
 b.1523 of Compton W, Warwicks.
 d.1544
 Sir-John Brereton
 b.1462 of Brereton, Cheshire.
 d.         
 Warburga Brereton
 b.1488 of Betteshorn, Hampshire.
 d.         
 Katherine Berkeley
 b.1454 of Betteshorn, Hampshire.
 d.1494
 Lord-Henry Compton
 b.1538 1st Lord Baron -born Co
 d.1589
 John Talbot
 b.1448 of Shrewsbury, Shrops.
 d.1473 Coventry, Warwicks.
 George Talbot
 b.1468 4th Earl of Shrewsbury an
 d.1538 Wingfield Manor, Derbys.
 Catherine Stafford
 b.1448 of Stafford, Staffs.
 d.1476
 Anne Talbot
 b.1515 of Shifnal, Shrops.
 d.1588 London.
 Richard Walden
 b.1465 of Erith, Kent.
 d.         
 Elizabeth Walden
 b.1491 of Erith, Kent.
 d.1567
 Mary Wogan
 b.1467 of Pembrokeshire.
 d.