ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - Periods in Modern European History</title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../index.html"> <img src = "../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" 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align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1241-15th C. </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tllmc.html">Late Medieval Crisis</A> </font></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 14th-16th C. </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlren.html">Renaissance </A> </font></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1415-1650 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tldisc.html">Era of Discovery; Early Colonialism </A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1517-1560 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlref.html">Reformation</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1560-1648 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlwor.html">Wars of Religion</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1517-1660 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlems.html">Early Modern States</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 15th-17th C. </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlscirev.html">Scientific Revolution</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 17th-18th C. </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlagrrev.html">Agricultural Revolution</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1660-1790 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlabs.html">Absolutism</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1600-1790 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlmerc.html">Mercantilism</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> c 1700-1790 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlenl.html">Enlightenment </A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1660-1790 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlwarf.html">Warfare in the Period of Absolutism</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlfrrev.html">1789-1815 </A> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> French Revolution and Napoleonic Era </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1769-1829 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = meh/tlindrev.html">First Industrial Revolution</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1813-1848 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlenat.html">Restauration and Early Nationalism</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1770-1880 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlart17701880.html">Cultural History of the 19th Century</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1830-1914 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlsoccon.html">Social Consequences of the Industrialization</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1849-1914 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlempnat.html">From Monarchy / Empire toward Nation State</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1880-1914 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlhimp.html">High Imperialism</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1829-1914 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlscitech18.html">Developments in Science and Technology</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> </TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "420"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1890-1914 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlfds.html">Fin de Siecle</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1914-1918 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlww1.html">World War I</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1918-1923 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlpwcrisis.html">Post-War Crisis</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1917-1939 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlibussr.html">Communist Russia</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1922-1940 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlibit.html">Fascist Italy </A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1918-1939 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlibger.html">Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1918-1939 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlibdem.html">The Democracies during the Interbellum</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1918-1939 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlibarts.html">Arts and Culture between the Wars</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1938-1945 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlww2.html">Appeasement and World War II</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1945-1949 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlpostwar.html">Post-War Years</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1946-1968 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlecw.html">Early Cold War</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1948-1973 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tleboom.html">Economic Boom, Social Impact</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1946-1965 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tldecol.html">Decolonization</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1951- </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tleintr.html">European Integration</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1960es </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlprgen.html">The Protest Generation</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1973-1979 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tloc.html">The Oil Crisis</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1969-1985 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tllcw.html">Late Cold War</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1985-1991 </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "300"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <A HREF = "meh/tlcolcom.html">Collapse of Communism</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1990es </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" 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