historical periods
Dated time spans
Historical periods are spans of time distinguished by characteristic events, conditions, or developments: the Victorian period, the Renaissance, the Cold War era.
Historians divide the past into periods to organize study and identify patterns, though the boundaries are often debated and vary by region.
The text covers the period from 1850 to 1914.
- 21st centuryYears 2001 to 2100
- Roman EmpireAncient state from Augustus onward
- renaissancePeriod of renewed vitality
- Golden AgeLegendary period of perfection
- ancient timesLong-ago historical era
Ancient Egypt · Middle Ages · scientific revolution · Victorian era · classical antiquity · modern era · enlightenment · Cambrian explosion · digital age · space age · Aztec civilization · Stone Age · dark ages · colonial era · era · epoch · age · dark
- historyancient civilizations, past events, epochs, era, epoch
- timelinestimelines, chronology, chronologies, time periods, eras
- capitalizationuppercase, lowercase, capital letters, caps, title case
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, Victorian, modern, contemporary
- Library ClassificationDewey Decimal, call number, call numbers, decimal system, subclass
temporal reference
historical periodsthe present
Current moment in time
modern times · contemporary era · the here and now · tomorrow · futurity