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 |
Henry Tudor b.1457 Henry VI, King of England d.1509 Sheen, Richmond, Surrey | ||||||||
Henry Tudor b.1491 King Henry VIII of Englan d.1547 | Edward Plantagenet b.1442 Edward I, King of England d.1483 | |||||||
Elizabeth Plantagenet b.1466 Elizabeth of York d.1503 Tower of London. | Elizabeth Woodville b.1437 d.1492 | |||||||
John Seymour b.1450 Wolf Hall, Wilts d. | ||||||||
Sir-John Seymour b.1476 d.1536 | Elizabeth Darell b.1454 Littlecote, Wilts d.1479 | |||||||
Jane Seymour b.1509 d.1537 Hampton Court Palace | Sir-Henry Wentworth b.1450 Nettlestead, Suffolk d.1499 | |||||||
Margery (Margaret) Wentworth b.1490 Nettlestead, Suffolk d.1550 | Anne Say b.1453 Nettlestead, Suffolk d.1478 | |||||||