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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I
Victorian era (the United Kingdom, 1837–1901); British hegemony (1815–1914) much of world, around the same time period. Belle Époque (Europe, primarily France, 1871–1914) Edwardian era (the United Kingdom, 1901–1914) First, interwar period and Second World Wars (1914–1945) Interwar Britain (United Kingdom, 1918–1939) Cold War (1945 ...
Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (2 vol. 2007) Lehning, James. European Colonialism since 1700 (2013) Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online
In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973), very detailed outline; 6th edition ed. by Peter Stearns (2001) has more detail on Third World; McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 (1984) Mowat, R. B. A History of European Diplomacy 1815–1914 (1922), basic introduction
The long nineteenth century is a term for the 125-year period beginning with the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, and ending with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It was coined by Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg [1] and later popularized by British historian Eric Hobsbawm. The term refers to the notion that the period reflects a ...
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