nineteenth century
Before the modern
The nineteenth century is the period from 1801 to 1900, though common usage often includes the 1800s broadly.
As a modifier, it describes things from or characteristic of that era: nineteenth-century literature, nineteenth-century attitudes toward women.
The phrase can suggest something outdated or backward: His views on race are positively nineteenth century.
- American Civil War1861-1865 U.S. conflict
- ImpressionismArt movement emphasizing light
- Crimean War1850s Russo-European conflict
- Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodMid-century English artistic revolt
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
gaslight · gas lamp · Transcendentalism · Industrial Revolution · scramble for Africa · abolition of slavery · Romanticism · telegraph · daguerreotype · gold rush · steam engine · suffrage movements · Napoleonic Wars · internal combustion engine · Dickens · penny dreadful · suffragette · opium
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- choleracholera vaccine, diarrhea, rehydration, waterborne disease, contaminated water
nineteenth centurytwenty-first century
Years 2001 through 2100
modern era · digital age · information age · ancient times · antiquity
nineteenth centurymodern age
Current historical epoch
Enlightenment · Dark Ages · medieval period · Renaissance · Age of Reason
nineteenth centurydigital age
Epoch of computerized life
space age · medieval period · Dark Ages · feudal era · ancient world