Classical Antiquity - also known as the Greco-Roman World
~Classical Greece, 480 BC - 399 BC
~Macedonian Era, 399 BC - 323 BC
~Hellenistic Greece, 323 BC - 146 BC
~Late Roman Republic, 147 BC - 27 BC
~Principate of the Roman Empire, 27 BC - 284 CE
~Late Antiquity, 284 - 500
~Migration Period/Barbarian Invasions, c. 300 - c. 600
Middle Ages - centered in Europe
~Byzantine Era, 330 - 1453
~Dark Ages, 476 - 800
~Viking Age, 793 - 1066
~High Middle Ages, 1066 - c. 1300
~Late Middle Ages, c. 1300 - 1453
~The Renaissance, c. 1300 - 1600
Periods beginning in the 15th century
~Age of Discovery/Exploration, c. 1400 - 1770
Periods beginning in the 16th century
~Elizabethan Era (United Kingdom), 1558 - 1603
~Protestant Reformation, 1500s/16th century
~Classicism (Art Period), 16th, 17th, 18th centuries
~Industrious Revolution (Technological Period), 16th, 17th, 18th centuries
~Spanish Empire, 16th century - 1820s
Periods beginning in the 17th century
~Baroque Period (Art Period), 1600 - 1750
~Neoclassical Literary Period, 1600 - 1785
~Golden Age of Piracy, 1650 - 1730
~Jacobean Era (United Kingdom), 1603 - 1625
~Petrine Era (Russia), 1689 - 1725
Periods beginning in the 18th century
~Age of Enlightenment/Reason, 1700s/18th century
~Scientific Revolution, 1700s/18th century
~Georgian Era (United Kingdom), 1714 - 1830
~Rococo Period (Art Period), 1720 - 1760
~Industrial Revolution, (Technological Period), 18th, 19th centuries
~Neoclassical Art Period, 1760 - 1830
~Romantic Era (Art Period), 1770 - 1850
~Napoleonic Era, 1799 - 1815
Periods beginning in the 19th century
~Transcendentalism (Social and Literary Movements), 1830 - 1860
~Victorian Era (United Kingdom), 1837 - 1901
~Realism Period (Art Period), 1840 - 1970
~Pre-Raphaelite Art Period, 1848 - 1854
~Reconstruction Era (United States), 1865 - 1877
~Impressionist Era (Art Period), 1870 - 1900
~Gilded Age (United States), 1875 - 1900
~Post-Impressionism (Art Period), 1880 - 1920
~Progressive Era (Social Period, United States), 1890s - 1920s
Periods beginning in the 20th century
~Edwardian Era, (United Kingdom), 1901 - 1914
~Fauvism (Art Period), 1905 - 1908
~Expressionism (Art Period), 1905 - 1925
~Cubism (Art Period), 1908 - 1920
~Futurism (Art Period), 1909 - 1918
~Abstract (Art Period), since c. 1910
~First World War, 1914 - 1918
~The Roaring Twenties (United States), 1920 - 1929
~Surrealism (Art Period), since 1920s
~Art Deco (Art Period), 1920 - 1935
~Jazz Age (Art Period), 1920s - 1930s
~The Great Depression, 1930 - 1939
~Second World War, 1939 - 1945
~Post-war Era, 1946-1962
~Cold War (Political Era), 1945 - 1991
~The Forties, 1940 - 1949
~The Fifties, 1950 - 1959
~Pop Art (Art Period), 1956 - 1960s
~Pop Art (Art Period), 1956 - 1960s
~The Sixties, 1960 - 1969
~The Seventies, 1970 - 1979
~The Eighties, 1980 - 1989
~The Nineties, 1990 - 1999
The 21st Century, beginning in 2000