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1503 Leonard da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
1512 Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel
1534 Henry VIII controls English church
1538 Cortes conquers Mexico
1547 Ivan the Terrible rules Russia
1453 End of Hundred Years War
1479 Formation of kingdom of Spain
1488 Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope
1492 Columbus discovers West Indies
1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India
1406 Florence conquers Pisa
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1427 Portuguese reach the Azores
1434 Medici rules in Florence
1440 Gutenberg, printing w/type
 Sir-Phillip Courtenay
 b.1400 Powderham Castle, Devon
 d.1463
 Sir-William Courtenay
 b.1428 Powderham Castle, Devon
 d.1485 Powderham, Exeter, Devon
 Elizabeth Hungerford
 b.1405 Farligh-Hungerford, Som
 d.1476 Powderham, Exeter, Devon
 Sir-William Courtenay
 b.1451 Powderham Castle, Devon
 d.1512
 Lord-William Bonville
 b.1393 Shute, Devon
 d.1460
 Margaret Bonville
 b.1432 Powderham, Exeter, Devon
 d.1487
 Margaret Merriet
 b.         
 d.         
 Sir-William Courtenay
 b.1485 Powderham Castle, Devon
 d.1535 Powderham Castle, Devon
 Sir-John Cheyney
 b.         
 d.         
 Cicely Cheyney
 b.1455 of Pinhoe, Devon
 d.