19th century
Steam and empire
The 19th century spans the years 1801 through 1900, though in casual usage people often mean the 1800s.
It's used as both a noun and an adjective: 19th-century literature, the architecture of the 19th century.
The period saw industrialization, colonial expansion, and the emergence of nation-states across Europe and the Americas.
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- Scramble for AfricaRapid European colonization period
- SocialismPublic ownership ideology
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
steam engine · child labor · laudanum · opium den · penny dreadful · Victorian era · drawing room · Marxism · penny-farthing · Gothic Revival · American Civil War · Impressionism · Transcendentalism · Conservatism · daguerreotype · Wild West · gold rush · Dickens
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- Victorian travelgrand tour, guidebooks, travelogues, travel diaries, steamships
- Canadian ExplorationNorthwest Passage, Hudson Bay, Jacques Cartier, John Cabot, Henry Hudson
- ChekhovAnton Chekhov, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, playwright, Uncle Vanya
- FlaubertMadame Bovary, French novelist, Rouen, mot juste, obscenity trial
- Franco-Russian LettersPushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov
19th century21st century
Years 2001 to 2100
modern era · antiquity · ancient times · distant future · prehistory
19th centurydigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · space age · atomic age · computer age · Stone Age