Minor Time Periods

Organized Geographically

World-wide

• World War I (1914-1918)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Space Age (1957-present)

America and Europe

• Age of Exploration (1400-1700)
• Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)
• Cold War (1947-1991)

Europe

• Ancient Greece (Before 600)
• Ancient Rome (Before 500)
• Medieval / Middle Ages (400-1400)
• Viking Age (793-1066)
• Renaissance (1400-1700)
• Protestant Reformation (1517-1648)
• Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815)

England

• Elizabethan Age (1588-1603)
• Victorian Era (1837-1901)
• Edwardian Age (1904-1914)

France

• Napoleonic Era (1799-1815)

China

• Ancient China (Before 220)
• Six Dynasties (220-580)
• Sui Dynasty (580-618)
• Tang Dynasty (619-907)
• Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960)
• Song Dynasty (960-1279)
• Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
• Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
• Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
• Republic of China (1912-1949)
• People's Republic of China (1949-present)

Japan

• Ancient Japan (Before 710)
• Nara Period (709-795)
• Heian Period (795-1185)
• Kamakura Period (1185-1333)
• Muromachi Period (1333-1573)
• Azuchi-momoyama Period (1573-1603)
• Sengoku Period (1478-1605)
• Tokugawa Period (1603-1867)
• Meiji Era (1868-1912)
• Taisho Period (1912-1926)
• Showa Period (1945-1989)
• Heisei Period (1989-2019)
• Reiwa Period (2019-present)

Korea

• Three Kingdoms of Korea (57 BC-668 AD)
• Goryeo (918-1392)
• Joseon / Chosun (1392-1897)
• Korean Empire (1897-1910)
• Japanese rule (1910-1945)
• Korean Provisional Government (1919-1948)
• Division and Korean War (1945-1953)

India

• Ancient India (Before 500)
• Middle Kingdoms of India (500-1206)
• Medieval India (1206-1526)
• Mughal Empire (1526-1857)
• British Raj (1858-1947)
• Republic of India (1947-present)

Middle East

• Byzantine Empire (330-1453)
• Uruk Period (4000 BC-3100 BC)
• Jemdet Nasr Period (3100 BC-2900 BC)
• Early Dynastic Period (2900 BC-2270 BC)
• Akkadian Empire (2270 BC-2083 BC)
• Gutian Dynasty (2083 BC-2050 BC)
• Sumerian Renaissance (2050 BC-1940 BC)
• Old Babylonian Empire (1894 BC-1595 BC)
• Middle Babylon (1595 BC-1160 BC)
• Assyrian Period (911 BC-609 BC)
• Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC-539 BC)
• Ancient Persia (Before 550 BC)
• Persian Empires (550 BC-651)
• Islamic Golden Age (750-1300)
• Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)

Africa

• Ghana Empire (300-1100)
• Songhai Empire (1000-1591)
• Mali Empire (1235-1670)

Egypt

• Ancient Egypt (Before 332 BC)
• Greco-Roman Egypt (332 BC-629)
• Medieval Egypt (630-1517)
• Early Modern Egypt (1517-1881)
• British Occupation of Egypt (1882-1922)
• Kingdom of Egypt (1923-1953)
• Republic of Egypt (1953-present)

United States

• Colonial Era (1607-1775)
• American Revolution (1765-1783)
• Confederation Period (1783-1788)
• Federalist Era (1788-1801)
• Westward Expansion (1800s)
• Civil War Era (1850-1865)
• Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)
• Gilded Age (1877-1895)
• Progressive Era (1896-1916)
• Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
• Great Depression (1929-1939)
• Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)

Organized Chronologically

Ancient History

• Ancient Persia (Before 550 BC)
• Ancient Egypt (Before 332 BC)
• Ancient China (Before 220)
• Ancient India (Before 500)
• Ancient Greece (Before 600)
• Ancient Rome (Before 500)
• Ancient Japan (Before 710)
• Uruk Period (4000 BC-3100 BC)
• Jemdet Nasr Period (3100 BC-2900 BC)
• Early Dynastic Period (2900 BC-2270 BC)
• Akkadian Empire (2270 BC-2083 BC)
• Gutian Dynasty (2083 BC-2050 BC)
• Sumerian Renaissance (2050 BC-1940 BC)
• Old Babylonian Empire (1894 BC-1595 BC)
• Middle Babylon (1595 BC-1160 BC)
• Assyrian Period (911 BC-609 BC)
• Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC-539 BC)
• Persian Empires (550 BC-651)
• Greco-Roman Egypt (332 BC-629)
• Three Kingdoms of Korea (57 BC-668 AD)

Post-classical History

• Ghana Empire (300-1100)
• Byzantine Empire (330-1453)
• Medieval / Middle Ages (400-1400)
• Middle Kingdoms of India (500-1206)
• Sui Dynasty (580-618)
• Tang Dynasty (619-907)
• Medieval Egypt (630-1517)
• Nara Period (709-795)
• Islamic Golden Age (750-1300)
• Viking Age (793-1066)
• Heian Period (795-1185)
• Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960)
• Goryeo (918-1392)
• Song Dynasty (960-1279)
• Songhai Empire (1000-1591)
• Kamakura Period (1185-1333)

Early Modern History

• Medieval India (1206-1526)
• Mali Empire (1235-1670)
• Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
• Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)
• Muromachi Period (1333-1573)
• Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
• Joseon / Chosun (1392-1897)
• Renaissance (1400-1700)
• Age of Exploration (1400-1700)
• Sengoku Period (1478-1605)
• Early Modern Egypt (1517-1881)
• Protestant Reformation (1517-1648)
• Mughal Empire (1526-1857)
• Azuchi-momoyama Period (1573-1603)
• Elizabethan Age (1588-1603)
• Tokugawa Period (1603-1867)
• Colonial Era (1607-1775)
• Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
• Age of Enlightenment (1685-1815)
• Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)

Late Modern History

• American Revolution (1765-1783)
• Confederation Period (1783-1788)
• Federalist Era (1788-1801)
• Napoleonic Era (1799-1815)
• Westward Expansion (1800s)
• Victorian Era (1837-1901)
• Civil War Era (1850-1865)
• British Raj (1858-1947)
• Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)
• Meiji Era (1868-1912)
• Gilded Age (1877-1895)
• British Occupation of Egypt (1882-1922)
• Progressive Era (1896-1916)
• Korean Empire (1897-1910)
• Edwardian Age (1904-1914)
• Japanese rule (1910-1945)
• Taisho Period (1912-1926)
• Republic of China (1912-1949)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Korean Provisional Government (1919-1948)
• Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)

Contemporary History

• Kingdom of Egypt (1923-1953)
• Great Depression (1929-1939)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Showa Period (1945-1989)
• Division and Korean War (1945-1953)
• Cold War (1947-1991)
• Republic of India (1947-present)
• People's Republic of China (1949-present)
• Republic of Egypt (1953-present)
• Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)
• Space Age (1957-present)
• Reiwa Period (2019-present)
• Heisei Period (1989-2019)