The following are timelines of

modern history The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also called modern history or modern times) is the period of history that succeeds the Middle Ages (which ended approximately 1500 AD). This terminology is a historical periodization that is applie ...

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The Middle-Ages
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General timelines

Early modern period

*For a timeline of events prior to 1501, see *For a timeline of events from 1501 to 1600, see *For a timeline of events from 1601 to 1700, see Timeline of the 17th century *For a timeline of events from 1701 to 1800, see

Timeline of the 18th century __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of the 18th century. 1700s (decade), 1700s * 1700–1721: Great Northern War between the Russian Empire, Russian and Swedish Empires. * 1701: Kingdom of Prussia declared under King Frederick I of Prussia, Frederi ...

Late modern period In many periodizations of human history, the late modern period followed the early modern period. It began approximately around the year 1800 and depending on the author either ended with the beginning of contemporary history after World War ...

*For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century *For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see

Timeline of the 20th century This is a timeline of the 20th century. 1900s 1901 * January 1: The Australian colonies federate. * January 22: Edward VII becomes King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India upon the death of Queen Victoria. ...

** For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I ** For 1939–1945 see

Timeline of World War II This is a list of timelines of events over the period of World War II. Main timelines World War II * Timeline of World War II (1939) * Timeline of World War II (1940) * Timeline of World War II (1941) * Timeline of World War II (1942) * ...

Contemporary period Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is ...

*For a timeline of events from 1945 to 2000, see **

Timeline of events in the Cold War This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its ...

*For a timeline of events from 2001 onward, see

Timeline of the 21st century This is a timeline of the 21st century. 2001– 2009 2001 * January 15: Wikipedia is launched. * January 20: ** President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines is ousted. ** George W. Bush is inaugurated as President of the United States ...

Nations

Timeline of Australian history This is a timeline of Australian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Australia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Australia. See also the li ...

Timeline of British history __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, Histor ...

* Timeline of British diplomatic history *

Timeline of Canadian history This is a brief timeline of the history of Canada, comprising important social, economic, political, military, legal, and territorial changes and events in Canada and its predecessor states. Prehistory 8th century 10th century 12th ...

* Timeline of Chinese history * Timeline of Cuban history *

Timeline of French history This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French mo ...

Timeline of German history __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list ...

Timeline of Greek history The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throu ...

* Timeline of Indian history *

Timeline of Italian history This is a timeline of Italian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Italy and its predecessor states, including Ancient Rome and Prehistoric Italy. Date of the prehistoric era are approximate. For fur ...

* Timeline of Japanese history *

Timeline of Mexican history This is a timeline of Mexican history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events and improvements in Mexico and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history See also the list of ...

Timeline of Polish history This is a timeline of Polish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Poland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Poland. See also the list of Polish ...

Timeline of Palestinian history A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representin ...

Timeline of Portuguese history __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of Portuguese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Portugal and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Portugal. Centurie ...

Timeline of Russian history __NOTOC__ This is a timeline of Russian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Russia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Russia. See also the list ...

* Timeline of Spanish history * Timeline of Turkish history * Timeline of United States history

Topical timelines

* List of years in literature * Timeline of geopolitical changes (1900–1999) * Timeline of geopolitical changes (2000–present) *

List of firsts in aviation This is a list of firsts in aviation. For a comprehensive list of women's records, see Women in aviation. First person to fly The first flight (including gliding) by a person is unknown. Several have been suggested. * In 559 A.D., several pri ...

Exploration

Timeline of European exploration This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957. Despite several significan ...

* List of circumnavigations * List of Arctic expeditions * Timeline of Solar System exploration

Wars

* List of wars: 1500–1799 * List of wars: 1800–1899 * List of wars: 1900–1944 * List of wars: 1945–1989 * List of wars: 1990–2002 * List of wars: 2003–present

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