Curated category
1480s births
- Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan died face down in the surf off a small island called Mactan, killed by a chief named Lapulapu and his men on the 27th of April 1521.
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireOn the 3rd of April 1538, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, died in the English countryside. She had outlived two of her three surviving children by…
- TitianIn 1590, the painter and art theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo called Titian "the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but all the painters of…
- Ralph Warren (Lord Mayor)Sir Ralph Warren holds a distinction that only a handful of men in the history of London have ever achieved: he served as Lord Mayor of the city not once…
- Estêvão GomesIn May of 1521, the Portuguese explorer Estêvão Gomes sailed a ship named the San Antonio into a Spanish port. He was not the officer who had commanded her…
- Henry Norris (courtier)Henry Norris died on the 17th of May 1536, on Tower Hill, and his last words were almost nothing at all. Where his fellow condemned men chose their scaffold…
- William Paulet, 1st Marquess of WinchesterWilliam Paulet emerged from the manor of Paulet near Bridgwater in Somerset around 1483 or 1485. His father Sir John Paulet held command against Cornish…
- Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell was a blacksmith's son from Putney who died on Tower Hill with his head set on a spike above London Bridge.
- William Brereton (courtier)William Brereton walked to a scaffold on Tower Hill on the 17th of May 1536 and spoke his final words with careful precision: "The cause whereof I die, judge…
- Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of SuffolkCharles Brandon rose from the household of a dead standard-bearer to become the most powerful man in England outside the royal family itself.