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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 Bonville
 b.1366 Shute, Devon
 d.1396
 Lord-William Bonville
 b.1393 Shute, Devon
 d.1460
 Elizabeth Fitzroger
 b.1371 Chewton, Devon
 d.1414
 Margaret Bonville
 b.1432 Powderham, Exeter, Devon
 d.1487
 Margaret Merriet
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