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 |
Thomas Gray b.1455 Groby, Leicestershire d.1501 Astley, Warwicks | ||||||||
Thomas Gray b.1477 Bashall, Yorkshire d.1530 | Cecily Bonville b.1461 Chewton Mendi, Somerset d.1529 Astley, Warwicks | |||||||
Sir-Henry Gray b.1517 Duke of Suffolk, K.G.. d.1554 Executed at the Tower of L | Robert Wotton b.1460 Dorsetshire d. | |||||||
Margaret Wotton b.1486 Dorsetshire d.1535 | Anne Belknapp b.1460 Dorsetshire d. | |||||||
Lady-Catherine Gray b.1540 Of Northumberland d.1568 Cockfield Hall, Suffolk | William Brandon b.1448 Bishops Lynn, Norkolk d. | |||||||
Sir-Charles Brandon b.1484 Duke of Suffolk d.1545 | Elizabeth Bruyn b.1450 Bishops Lynn, Norkolk d. | |||||||
Lady-Frances Brandon b.1517 Bishops Hatfield, Herts d.1559 Charterhouse, Surrey | Henry Tudor b.1457 Henry VI, King of England d.1509 Sheen, Richmond, Surrey | |||||||
Mary Tudor b.1495 Queen of France d.1553 Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk | Elizabeth Plantagenet b.1466 Elizabeth of York d.1503 Tower of London. | |||||||