Modern Era

1900 C.E. – Current

• Petrine Era (Russia, 1689 – 1725)
• Industrial Revolution (Europe, United States, elsewhere 18th and 19th centuries)
• (along with early modern era) Age of European colonialism and imperialism
• Napoleonic Era (1799 – 1815)
• Georgian Era (United Kingdom, 1714 – 1830)
• Victorian era (United Kingdom, 1837 – 1901); British hegemony, much of world, around the same time period.
• Romantic Era (1850 – 1920)
• Gilded Age (United States, late 19th century)
• Edwardian period (United Kingdom, 1901 – 1910)
• Meiji period (Japan, 1868 – 1912)
• Progressive era (United States, from the 1880s to the 1920s)
• Machine Age (1900 – 1945)
• Age of Oil (after 1901)
• World War I (Much of Earth, 1914 – 1918)
• Interwar period (Earth, 1918 – 1939 or 1937)
• The Great Depression (Earth, 1929-WW2)
• World War II (Earth, 1937 or 1939 – 1945)
• Atomic Age (after 1945)
• Post-war era (1946-1962)
• The Sixties (1960-1969)
• Cold War (Soviet Union and United States, and their allies, 1945 – 1989 or 1991)
• Space Age (after 1957)
• Post-Modern (Soviet Union and United States, 1973 – Present)
• Information Age (1970 – circa 2015)
• The Seventies (1970-1979)
• The Eighties (1980-1989)
• The Nineties (1990-1999)