Historical
Periods & Eras
Comprehensive chronological database of major sovereign entities, dynasties, empires, and republics mapping human civilization.
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All 108 Periods (Chronological)
Pre-Iranian civilization from ca. 3400 BC to 2500 BC
Ancient city
Period of Ancient Egypt in the 3rd millennium BC
Period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC
The first ancient Chinese dynasty to leave historical records (1600-1046 BC); the empire ruled by this dynasty
Period in the history of Assyria after the fall of the Old Assyrian Empire in the 1300s BC
Chinese dynasty (c.1046-c,771 BCE)
Dynasty of Ancient Chinese kings (王) lasting from c. 1046 to 256 BC
Historical state in Mesopotamia
Second half of the Chinese Zhou dynasty (770 BCE–256 BCE)
Period of Roman history when the city and its territory were ruled by kings (c.753–c.509 BC)
Iranian (Persian) empire (550–330 BC)
Period of ancient Roman civilization (509 BC–27 BC)
Historical period of Greece following Classical Greece
Dynasty that ruled in China from 221 to 206 BC
Imperial period of China from 220 BCE to 1912 CE
Imperial dynasty in China from 202 BC to 220 AD
Group of three confederacies of protostates in southern Korean peninsula that existed between 1st century BCE and 4th century CE
Gaul as a province of the Roman Empire
Second half of the Han dynasty of imperial China
Chinese dynasty (266–420)
Indian dynasty between the 3rd and 9th centuries CE
Five ancient non-Han ethnic groups during the Eastern Han Dynasty (4th-5th centuries) waged war against Western Jin, establisehd sixteen kingdoms
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Empire in the China proper between 618 and 907 AD
Historical medieval period of Japan from CE 710 to 794
Dynasty that ruled northern India from 6th to 11th century
802–1431 empire in Southeast Asia
Dynasty
First Vietnamese dynasty after the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam (939–965)
Byzantine Empire from 1059 to 1081
Nizari Ismaili government with the center of Alamut Castle (1090–1273)
Holy Roman Empire principality (1157–1806)
Byzantine Empire from 1185 to 1204
Byzantine Empire from 1261 to its end in 1453
Time period in Tibet from approximately 1270 to 1350
Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China (1271–1368)
Period of Japanese history, 1333–1336
Dynastic regime that held sway over Tibet or parts thereof from 1354 to the early 17th century
Imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
Portion of the Low Countries ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy in the period from 1384 to 1482
Period in the Middle Ages where Charles VII of France and Henry VI of England disputed the succession to the throne of France
History of France during the early modern era
1498–1975 Portuguese possession in East Africa
Iraq under the rule of the Ottoman Empire
Personal union of Castile, Aragon and Portugal 1580-1640
Period of Japanese history from 1600 to 1868, during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate
Period of French history, during the 17th century
Dutch colony, 1624–1662
Spanish colony from 1626 to 1642
Manchu-led dynasty of China (1644–1912)
Period of Dutch control of Ceylon
Last period of monarchic and theocratic Tibet
Restoration of the monarchy in the British Isles
Former country
Taiwan's dynasty history
Qing rule in Tibet from 1720 to 1912
Fourth traditional centre of power in the history of Thailand (1782 to 24 June 1932)
1801-1918 era of Georgian history
Time period in the history of the Dominican Republic
Chilean government formed in opposition to Napoleonic occupation of Spain between 1810 and 1814
Reestablished Venezuelan Republic declared by Simón Bolívar
From 1814 to 1833
1824-1835 federal republic in Central America
Armenian history from 1828 to 1917
Former state in South America
Kingdom governing France, 1830–1848
Aspect of history
1859 formation of the modern Romanian state
Phrase describing status of the Pope during the dispute with the Kingdom of Italy (1870-1929)
German nation-state in Central Europe from 1871 to 1918
Period of Mexican history
Political alliance of British Nonconformists, 1880s-1910s
1889–1930 federal republic in South America
The official name of Brazil between 1889 and 1937
Period of Taiwanese history (1895–1945)
Costa Rican dictatorship
Country in Central and Eastern Europe (1918–1939)
Germany in the years 1918/1919–1933
Autonomous region within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Former country (1930–1950)
Political regime established in Spain between April 14, 1931 and April 1, 1939
1938–1939 republic in Central/Eastern Europe
Republic in Central-Eastern Europe between 1945–1948
Post-World War II Allied military occupation of Germany (1945–1949)
Period of history (1945–)
Period of Brazilian history from 1946 to 1964
Government of France between 1946 and 1958
Republic in Central/Eastern Europe between 1960 and 1990
Government of South Korea from August 1948 to April 1960
1949–1989 socialist republic in Central Europe
Government of South Korea from 1960 to 1961
State ideology of Burma from 1962 to 1988
Government of South Korea from 1963 to 1972
1963–1965 Singaporean statehood in Malaysia
Syrian state from 1963 to 2024
1964-1985 military regime in Brazil
Term used for period of Indonesian history under President Suharto 1966-1998
Republic of Iraq from 1968 to 2003 during the time of Ba'athism
Oceanian country from 1970 to 1987
Fourth republican system of Republic of Korea, established by October Yusin
Period of Chilean history under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet
The rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Communist Party of Kampuchea over Cambodia
Unitary one-party socialist republic established in the Seychelles (1976 - 2004)
Government of South Korea from 1981–1988
Economic reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986
Republic established in 1988
1992–2002 interim state in Central Asia established by the Peshawar Accords