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Homininaeid Era – Period prior to the existence of Homininae Homininid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominini Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East : c. five thousand years ago).
See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .
List of time periods, which includes periods used in fields such as palaeogeography, palaeoecology, archaeology and cosmology. the categories History by region, History by country and History by city for histories of places. Category:History by topic.
Prehistoric and Pre-Columbian Era: until 1607: Colonial Era: 1607–1765: 1776–1789 American Revolution: 1765–1783 Confederation period: 1783–1788: 1789–1815 Federalist Era: 1788–1801 Jeffersonian Era: 1801–1817: 1815–1849 Era of Good Feelings: 1817–1825 Jacksonian Era: 1825–1849: 1849–1865 Civil War Era
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. [1] Comparable terms are Epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) [2] and Sanskrit yuga. [3]
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Timeline of Australian history; Timeline of Austrian history; Timeline of Bangladeshi history; Timeline of British history; Timeline of British diplomatic history
Picking particular years for the beginning and end points of eras in European classical music is difficult for several reasons. First, these eras began and ended at different times in different locations. Second, works of particular styles can be found that were composed after the style was no longer popular or important.