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 | |||||||
Thomas Howard b. 2nd Duke of Norfolk. d.1524 Farlingham Castle, Nfk | ||||||||
Lord-Edmund Howard b.1480 Tisbury, Wilts d.1539 | Elizabeth Tylney b.1462 Ashwellthorpe, Norkolk d.1497 | |||||||
Catherine Howard b.1525 Lambeth, London d.1542 Tower of London. ( behe | Sir-Richard Culpeper b. d.1507 | |||||||
Joyce Culpeper b.1507 d. | Joyce Worsley b.1493 d. | |||||||