early 19th century

Regency period timeframe

The early 19th century spans roughly 1800 to 1830 or 1840, depending on context.

The phrase typically modifies nouns describing things from that period: early 19th century architecture, an early 19th century manuscript.

When used as a compound adjective before a noun, it's often hyphenated: early-19th-century furniture.

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Years 2001 to 2100

modern era · ancient times · prehistory · medieval period · antiquity

position within the 19th century

early 19th centurylate 19th century

Final Victorian decades

fin de siècle · 1890s · 1880s · Gilded Age

modernity and technological development

early 19th centurymodern times

The contemporary era

digital age · information age · space age · atomic age · Stone Age

Family

nineteenth, nineteenth century

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