Regency period
George IV's regency
The Regency period refers specifically to 1811–1820 in Britain, when the future George IV ruled as Prince Regent during his father's mental incapacity.
The era is associated with distinctive architecture, fashion, and manners—Jane Austen novels capture its social world.
In broader usage, Regency extends to roughly 1795–1837, encompassing a recognizable cultural style: a Regency period drama, Regency period furniture. (Lowercase regency period describes any era of rule by a regent.)
- Jane AustenRegency-era English novelist
- tonHeavy mass unit
- social seasonPeriod of upper-class events
- marriage marketSpouse-seeking social sphere
- King George IIIBritish ruler, late 1700s
empire waist · Napoleonic Wars · Brighton · Lord Byron · Congress of Vienna · Romanticism · dandy · pelisse · country estate · cravat · debutantes · coming out · assembly rooms · entailment · ballroom dancing · quadrille · elopement · minuet
Regency periodVictorian era
Britain under its longest-reigning queen
Medieval period · Tudor period · Elizabethan era · Edwardian era · Georgian era
Regency periodGlorious Revolution
England's 1688 regime change
English Civil War · Wars of the Roses · Restoration · constitutional monarchy