By period

A list of Historicle periods


 * Prehistoric (Prehistory, Prehistoric man)
 * Prehistoric Europe
 * Stone Age
 * Old stone Age
 * Middle Stone Age
 * Younger Stone Age
 * Copper Age
 * Bronze Age
 * Antiquity
 * Iron Age
 * (Ancient Greece, c:a 1000 BC-, see Timeline of Ancient Greece)
 * Pax Romana (Roman Empire, 96 - 180)
 * Period of the Three Kingdoms (China, 220 - 280)
 * Middle Ages (Europe, 5th century - 15th century)
 * Viking Age (Scandinavia, Europe, 793 - 1066)
 * Nara period (Japan, 709 - 795)
 * Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (China, 907 - 960)
 * Sengoku period (Japan, 1478 - 1605)
 * The Renaissance (Europe, 14th century - 16th century)
 * Early Modern (Europe, 14th century - 18th century)
 * Elizabethan period (United Kingdom, 1558 - 1603)
 * The Reformation (Europe, 16th century)
 * The Age of Enlightenment (Europe,18th century)
 * Modern (Europe, 18th century - 20th century)
 * Industrial Revolution (Europe 18th and 19th centuries)
 * Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815
 * Victorian era (United Kingdom, 1837 - 1901)
 * Edwardian period (United Kingdom, 1901 - 1910)
 * Meiji era (Japan, 1868 - 1912)
 * World War I (Earth, 1914 - 1918)
 * Interwar period (Earth, 1918 - 1939*)
 * World War II (Earth, 1939* - 1945)
 * Cold War (Soviet Union and United States, as well as Earth, 1945-1989)
 * Post-communist period (Russia, after 1991)

* : This date is somewhat subjective. Some sources cite 1937 as the start of World War II.