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Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...
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Late Middle Ages The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the Periodization, period of History of Europe, European history lasting from 1300 to 1500 AD. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period ( ...
from:1800 till:1850 text: Late modern period bar:General color:age from: 1450 till: 1700 shift:(-120,3) text:
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
from: 1450 till: 1750 shift:(-150,-8) text:
Age of Discovery The Age of Discovery (), also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the 15th to the 17th century, during which Seamanship, seafarers fro ...
from: 1517 till: 1650 shift:(0,3) text:
Reformation The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the p ...
from: 1545 till: 1650 shift:(0,-8) text:
Counter-Reformation The Counter-Reformation (), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to or from similar insights as, the Protestant Reformations at the time. It w ...
from: 1543 till: 1687 shift:(100,-5) text:
Scientific Revolution The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of History of science, modern science during the early modern period, when developments in History of mathematics#Mathematics during the Scientific Revolution, mathemati ...
from: 1687 till: 1804 shift:(0,4) text:
Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a Europe, European Intellect, intellectual and Philosophy, philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century. Chiefly valuing knowledge gained th ...
bar:General color:filler from: 1765 till: 1850 shift:(0,-8) text: Age of Revolution from: 1760 till: 1850 shift:(0,4) text:
Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...
bar:Portugal color:age from: 1491 till: 1683 text: Early globalization from: 1683 till: 1808 text: Portuguese Enlightenment bar:Portugal color:filler from: 1807 till: 1814 text: P.W from: 1814 till: 1820 text: from: 1450 till: 1491 text: Early discoveries from: 1820 till: 1850 text:
Liberalism Liberalism is a Political philosophy, political and moral philosophy based on the Individual rights, rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law. ...
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Spanish Empire The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy (political entity), Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered ...
from: 1492 till: 1700 text: Spanish Renaissance from: 1700 till: 1807 text: Spanish Enlightenment bar:Spain color:filler from: 1450 till: 1492 text:
Reconquista The ''Reconquista'' (Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese for ) or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian Reconquista#Northern Christian realms, kingdoms waged ag ...
from: 1807 till: 1814 text: P.W from: 1814 till: 1850 text:
Nationalism Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, I ...
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Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...
bar:England/Britain color:filler from: 1450 till: 1485 shift:(7,4) text: Medieval England from: 1801 till: 1850 shift:(0,4) text:
Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...
from: 1801 till: 1850 shift:(0,-8) text:
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
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Ancien Régime ''Ancien'' may refer to * the French word for " ancient, old" ** Société des anciens textes français * the French for "former, senior" ** Virelai ancien ** Ancien Régime ** Ancien Régime in France {{disambig ...
from: 1453 till: 1789 shift:(0,4) text:
Early Modern France The Kingdom of France in the early modern period, from the French Renaissance, Renaissance () to the French Revolution, Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House of Bourbon (a Capetian dynasty, Capetian cadet branch). This corr ...
bar:France color:filler from: 1450 till: 1453 shift:(3,0) text: M.F from: 1789 till: 1792 shift:(0,4) text: French Revolution from: 1789 till: 1850 shift:(9,-8) text: Late Modern France bar:Scandinavia color:age from: 1523 till: 1814 shift:(0,3) text:
Denmark–Norway Denmark–Norway (Danish language, Danish and Norwegian language, Norwegian: ) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (includ ...
from: 1523 till: 1814 shift:(0,-8) text:
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
bar:Scandinavia color:filler from: 1450 till: 1523 text:
Kalmar Union The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret I of Denmark, Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then in ...
from: 1814 till: 1850 shift:(0,3) text:
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
from: 1814 till: 1850 shift:(0,-8) text: Sweden-Norway bar:Germany color:age from: 1450 till: 1618 shift:(-55,4) text: German Renaissance from: 1495 till: 1806 shift:(-75,4) text: Early Modern Holy Roman Empire from: 1495 till: 1555 text: Imperial Reform from: 1522 till: 1618 shift:(10,-8) text: German Reformation from: 1618 till: 1648 text: Thirty Years War from: 1648 till: 1815 text:
Kleinstaaterei The word (, "small-statewiktionary:-ery#English, -ery") is a pejorative term coined in the early nineteenth century to denote the territorial fragmentation of Germany. The term also refers to the exclusion of Austria from the formation ...
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Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( ) was a period in History of Italy, Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked t ...
from: 1494 till: 1559 text: Italian Wars from: 1559 till: 1648 text: Italian Counter-Reformation from: 1648 till: 1814 text: Foreign domination bar:Italy color:filler from: 1450 till: 1494 text:
Medieval Italy The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7th century under the Ostrogothic Kingdom and ...
from: 1814 till: 1850 text: Risorgimento bar:Poland color:age from: 1507 till: 1569 text: Polish Golden Age from: 1569 till: 1795 text: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth bar:Poland color:filler from: 1450 till: 1507 text: Medieval Poland from: 1795 till: 1850 text: Partitioned Poland bar:Russia color:age from: 1547 till: 1721 text:
Tsardom of Russia The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Moscow, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan the Terrible, Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. ...
from: 1721 till: 1796 text: E.M Russia Empire bar:Russia color:filler from: 1450 till: 1547 text: Muscovy from: 1796 till: 1850 text: Late Modern Russian Empire
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Late Middle Ages The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the Periodization, period of History of Europe, European history lasting from 1300 to 1500 AD. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period ( ...
from:1800 till:1850 text: Late modern period bar:General color:age from: 1450 till: 1700 shift:(-120,3) text:
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
from: 1450 till: 1750 shift:(-150,-8) text:
Age of Discovery The Age of Discovery (), also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the 15th to the 17th century, during which Seamanship, seafarers fro ...
from: 1517 till: 1650 shift:(0,3) text:
Reformation The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the p ...
from: 1545 till: 1650 shift:(0,-8) text:
Counter-Reformation The Counter-Reformation (), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to or from similar insights as, the Protestant Reformations at the time. It w ...
from: 1543 till: 1687 shift:(100,-5) text:
Scientific Revolution The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of History of science, modern science during the early modern period, when developments in History of mathematics#Mathematics during the Scientific Revolution, mathemati ...
from: 1687 till: 1804 shift:(0,4) text:
Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was a Europe, European Intellect, intellectual and Philosophy, philosophical movement active from the late 17th to early 19th century. Chiefly valuing knowledge gained th ...
bar:General color:filler from: 1765 till: 1850 shift:(0,-8) text: Age of Revolution from: 1760 till: 1850 shift:(0,4) text:
Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...
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Safavid dynasty The Safavid dynasty (; , ) was one of Iran's most significant ruling dynasties reigning from Safavid Iran, 1501 to 1736. Their rule is often considered the beginning of History of Iran, modern Iranian history, as well as one of the gunpowder em ...
from: 1736 till: 1750 shift:(0,6) text:
Afsharid dynasty The Afsharid dynasty () was an Iran, Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah () of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman Afshar people, Afshar tribe, ruling over the Afsharid Empire. List of Afsharid monarchs Family tree ...
from: 1750 till: 1794 text:
Zand dynasty The Zand dynasty () was an Iranian dynasty, founded by Karim Khan Zand (1751–1779) that initially ruled southern and central Iran in the 18th century. It later expanded to include much of the rest of contemporary Iran (except for the provi ...
bar:Persia/Iran color:filler from: 1450 till: 1468 shift:(16,4) text:
Timurid dynasty The Timurid dynasty, self-designated as Gurkani (), was the ruling dynasty of the Timurid Empire (1370–1507). It was a Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim dynasty or Barlās clan of Turco-Mongol originB.F. Manz, ''"Tīmūr Lang"'', in Encyclopaedia of I ...
from: 1468 till: 1501 shift:(9,-10) text:
Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (, ; ) was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two trib ...
from: 1794 till: 1850 text:
Qajar dynasty The Qajar family (; 1789–1925) was an Iranian royal family founded by Mohammad Khan (), a member of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman-descended Qajar tribe. The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's '' Majlis'', conven ...
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Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
bar:C.Asia color:filler from: 1450 till: 1502 text: Golden Horde bar:India color:age from: 1526 till: 1707 text:
Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an Early modern period, early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to ...
from: 1707 till: 1818 text:
Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern India, early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent List of Maratha dynasties and states, Ma ...
bar:India color:filler from: 1450 till: 1526 text:
Delhi sultanate The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a Medieval India, late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries.
from: 1818 till: 1850 text:
Company Raj Company rule in India (also known as the Company Raj, from Hindi , ) refers to regions of the Indian subcontinent under the control of the British East India Company (EIC). The EIC, founded in 1600, established its first trading post in India ...
bar:China color:age from: 1450 till: 1644 text:
Ming Dynasty The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the last imperial dynasty of ...
from: 1644 till: 1840 text:
Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...
bar:China color:filler from: 1840 till: 1850 text: Post-O.W bar:Korea color:age from: 1450 till: 1850 text:
Joseon Dynasty Joseon ( ; ; also romanized as ''Chosun''), officially Great Joseon (), was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897. The kingdom w ...
bar:Japan color:age from: 1467 till: 1570 text: Sengoku from: 1570 till: 1603 text: Azuchi–Momoyama from: 1603 till: 1850 text:
Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
bar:Japan color:filler from: 1450 till: 1467 shift:(7,4) text:
Muromachi The , also known as the , is a division of History of Japan, Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Ashikaga shogunate, Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate ( or ), which was officially establ ...
bar:Egypt color:age from: 1517 till: 1683 text: Ottoman growth from: 1683 till: 1805 text: Ottoman stagnation bar:Egypt color:filler from: 1450 till: 1517 text: Mamluks from: 1805 till: 1850 text: Muhammad Ali dynasty bar:W.Africa color:age from: 1464 till: 1591 text:
Songhai Empire The Songhai Empire was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest African empires in history. The state is known by its historiographical name, derived from its lar ...
from: 1591 till: 1670 text:
Mali Empire The Mali Empire (Manding languages, Manding: ''Mandé''Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: ''UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century'', p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or ''Manden ...
from: 1670 till: 1850 text: Sahelian Kingdoms from: 1455 till: 1850 shift:(30,5) text: European exploration from: 1526 till: 1850 shift:(-5,-5) text:
Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of Slavery in Africa, enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Pass ...
bar:W.Africa color:filler from: 1450 till: 1464 text: M.E bar:N.America color:age from: 1534 till: 1600 text:
New France New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Br ...
from: 1600 till: 1770 text:
British America British America collectively refers to various British colonization of the Americas, colonies of Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and its predecessors states in the Americas prior to the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1 ...
from: 1770 till: 1850 shift:(0,4) text:
British Canada British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and cultur ...
from: 1770 till: 1850 shift:(0,-8) text:
United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
bar:N.America color:filler from: 1450 till: 1534 text: Mississippian bar:Mexico color:age from: 1521 till: 1535 shift:(33,-3) text:
Spanish Conquest The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It ...
from: 1535 till: 1821 text:
New Spain New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( ; Nahuatl: ''Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl''), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. It was one of several ...
bar:Mexico color:filler from: 1450 till: 1521 text:
Aztec Empire The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance (, Help:IPA/Nahuatl, jéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥ or the Tenochca Empire, was an alliance of three Nahuas, Nahua altepetl, city-states: , , and . These three city-states rul ...
from: 1821 till: 1850 text: Late Modern Mexico bar:Peru color:age from: 1533 till: 1542 shift:(33,-3) text:
Spanish Conquest The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It ...
from: 1542 till: 1824 text:
Viceroyalty of Peru The Viceroyalty of Peru (), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru (), was a Monarchy of Spain, Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in ...
bar:Peru color:filler from: 1450 till: 1533 text:
Inca Empire The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (, ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The History of the Incas, Inca ...
from: 1824 till: 1850 text:
Republic of Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
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Colonial Brazil Colonial Brazil (), sometimes referred to as Portuguese America, comprises the period from 1500, with the Discovery of Brazil, arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves ...
from: 1815 till: 1823 shift:(-6,5) text: UKPBA bar:Brazil color:filler from: 1450 till: 1500 text:
Indigenous cultures There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territ ...
from: 1823 till: 1850 shift:(9,-4) text:
Empire of Brazil The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a Representative democracy, representative Par ...
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Early modern period The early modern period is a Periodization, historical period that is defined either as part of or as immediately preceding the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There i ...

*For a timeline of events prior to 1501, see *For a timeline of events from 1501 to 1600, see *For a timeline of events from 1601 to 1700, see Timeline of the 17th century *For a timeline of events from 1701 to 1800, see Timeline of the 18th century


Late modern period

*For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century *For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century ** For 1914–1918, see
Timeline of World War I This is a list of the events of World War I in chronological order. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 Post-1920 See also * Timeline of World War I (1917–1918) * Diplomatic history of World War I References Sources * * * ...
** For 1939–1945 see Timeline of World War II


Contemporary period

*For a timeline of events from 1945 to 2000, see ** Timeline of the Cold War *For a timeline of events from 2001 onward, see Timeline of the 21st century


Future The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ex ...

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* Timeline of Australian history * Timeline of Austrian history * Timeline of Bangladeshi history * Timeline of British history * Timeline of British diplomatic history * Timeline of Canadian history *
Timeline of Chinese history __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its dynasties. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. See also the list of Chines ...
* Timeline of Cuban history * Timeline of Finnish history * Timeline of French history * Timeline of German history * Timeline of Greek history *
Timeline of Indian history This is a timeline of Indian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in India and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of India. Also see the list of govern ...
* Timeline of Italian history * Timeline of Japanese history *
Timeline of Korean history This is a timeline of Korean history. Early history * 8000 BC: Beginning of the Jeulmun pottery period. * 2337 BC: Legendary establishment of Tamna by Go, Yang, and Bu on Jeju Island. * 2333 BC: Legendary establishment of Gojoseon by Dangun. * ...
* Timeline of Mexican history * Timeline of Pakistani history *
Timeline of Polish history This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish ...
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Timeline of Portuguese history __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of Portuguese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Portugal and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Portugal. Centur ...
* Timeline of Russian history * Timeline of Spanish history * Timeline of Swedish history * Timeline of Anatolian history * Timeline of United States history


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* List of years in literature * Timeline of geopolitical changes (1500–1899) * Timeline of geopolitical changes (1900–1999) *
Timeline of geopolitical changes (2000–present) This is a timeline of geopolitical changes around the world since 2000. It includes dates of declarations of independence, geographical renaming, changes in country name, changes of capital city or name, and Political history of the world, c ...
* List of firsts in aviation


Exploration

* Timeline of European exploration *
List of circumnavigations This is a list of circumnavigations of Earth. Sections are ordered by ascending date of completion. Global Nautical 16th century * The 18 survivors, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish), of Ferdinand Magellan's Magellan's circumnavigation ...
* List of Arctic expeditions * Timeline of Solar System exploration *
Timeline of space exploration This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or privat ...


Wars

* List of wars: 1500–1799 * List of wars: 1800–1899 * List of wars: 1900–1944 * List of wars: 1945–1989 * List of wars: 1990–2002 * List of wars: 2003–present


See also

* List of timelines


References

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Further reading

* Langer, William. ''An Encyclopedia of World History'' (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of event
online free
* Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. ''Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present'' (1970
online
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