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It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Post-classical history – Period of time that immediately followed ancient history. Depending on the continent, the era generally falls between the years AD 200–600 and AD 1200–1500.
This perception was created in the 1920s and later by those who remembered the Edwardian age with nostalgia, looking back to their childhoods across the abyss of the Great War. [3] The Edwardian age was also seen as a mediocre period of pleasure between the great achievements of the preceding Victorian age and the catastrophe of the following ...
The era followed the Georgian era and preceded the Edwardian era, ... The period from 1815 to 1914, known as the Pax Britannica, ...
The Regency Era is a sub-period of the longer Georgian era (1714–1837), both of which were followed by the Victorian era (1837–1901). The latter term had contemporaneous usage although some historians give it an earlier startpoint, typically the enactment of the Great Reform Act on 7 June 1832. [8] [9] [10]
This category's scope is limited to human-related history since the end of Earth's most recent glacial period ("the Ice Age") around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. History portal See also
The Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period spanning the reign of King Edward VII up to the end of the First World War, including the years surrounding the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In the early years of the period, the Second Boer War in South Africa split the country into anti- and pro-war factions.
The Interregnum [1] was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660, which marked the start of the Restoration. During the Interregnum, England was under various forms of republican government.
The goal was to ensure that Russia could not benefit from the declining status of the Ottoman Empire, [11] a strategic consideration known as the Eastern Question. The conflict marked a rare breach in the Pax Britannica , the period of relative peace (1815–1914) that existed among the Great Powers of the time, and especially in Britain's ...