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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
 Charles (Duke of Suffolk) Brandon
 b.1484
 d.1545
 Lady Frances Brandon
 b.1517
 d.1559
 Edmund, Earl of Richmond Tudor
 b.         
 d.1546
 Henry VII Tudor
 b.1455
 d.1509
 Margaret Beaufort
 b.1509
 d.         
 Mary Rose Tudor
 b.1496 Richmond Palace
 d.1533 Westhorpe Hall Suffolk
 Edward IV Plantagenet 
 b.1441
 d.1483
 Elizabeth Plantagenet
 b.1466 Westminster Palace
 d.1503 To, buried Westminster Abbe
 Elizabeth Wydeville (Woodville)
 b.1437 Grafton Re, Northamptonshire
 d.1492 St Saviours Abbey, London