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- Elizabethan age
a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century - Victorian age
a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century - Phanerozoic, Phanerozoic eon, Phanerozoic aeon
the period from about 5,400 million years ago until the present - Cenozoic, Cenozoic era, Age of Mammals
approximately the last 63 million years - Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man
last 2 million years - Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch
approximately the last 10,000 years - Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch
from two million to 11 thousand years ago - Tertiary, Tertiary period
from 63 million to 2 million years ago - Pliocene, Pliocene epoch
from 13 million to 2 million years ago - Miocene, Miocene epoch
from 25 million to 13 million years ago - Oligocene, Oligocene epoch
from 40 million to 25 million years ago - Eocene, Eocene epoch
from 58 million to 40 million years ago - Paleocene, Paleocene epoch
from 63 million to 58 million years ago - Mesozoic, Mesozoic era, Age of Reptiles
from 230 million to 63 million years ago - Cretaceous, Cretaceous period
from 135 million to 63 million years ago - Jurassic, Jurassic period
from 190 million to 135 million years ago - Triassic, Triassic period
from 230 million to 190 million years ago - Paleozoic, Paleozoic era
from 544 million to about 230 million years ago - Permian, Permian period
from 280 million to 230 million years ago - Carboniferous, Carboniferous period
from 345 million to 280 million years ago - Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period
from 310 million to 280 million years ago - Mississippian, Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period
from 345 million to 310 million years ago - Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes
from 405 million to 345 million years ago - Silurian, Silurian period
from 425 million to 405 million years ago - Ordovician, Ordovician period
from 500 million to 425 million years ago - Cambrian, Cambrian period
from 544 million to about 500 million years ago - Precambrian, Precambrian eon, Precambrian aeon, Precambrian period
the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon - Proterozoic, Proterozoic eon, Proterozoic aeon
from 2,500 to 544 million years ago - Archean, Archean eon, Archean aeon, Archeozoic, Archaeozoic, Archeozoic eon, Archaeozoic aeon
the time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago - Hadean, Hadean time, Hadean eon, Hadean aeon, Priscoan, Priscoan eon, Priscoan aeon
the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago) - D-day, 6 June 1944
date of the Allied landing in France, World War II - V-E Day, 8 May 1945
the date of Allied victory in Europe, World War II - V-J Day, 15 August 1945
the date of Allied victory over Japan, World War II - Bronze Age
(archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons - Iron Age
(archeology) the period following the Bronze Age - Stone Age
(archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements - Eolithic Age, Eolithic
the earliest part of the Stone Age marked by the earliest signs of human culture - Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC - Lower Paleolithic
the oldest part of the Paleolithic Age with the emergence of the hand ax - Middle Paleolithic
the time period of Neanderthal man - Upper Paleolithic
the time period during which only modern Homo sapiens was known to have existed - Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
middle part of the Stone Age beginning about 15,000 years ago - Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere) - Caliphate
the era of Islam's ascendancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century - Christian era, Common era
the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth - Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period
the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe - Middle Ages, Dark Ages
the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance - Renaissance, Renascence
the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world - Italian Renaissance
the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance - Industrial Revolution, technological revolution
the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation - Reign of Terror
the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed - Harlem Renaissance
a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished - New Deal
the historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented - Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period
the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union - Restoration
the reign of Charles II in England - Great Depression, Depression
a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment - Regency
the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity - Great Schism
the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon - 9/11, 9-11, September 11, Sept. 11, Sep 11
the day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs