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Print/export Download as PDF; ... Empire Start year End year Duration (years) ... Congo Free State: 1885: 1908: 23 Crimean Khanate: 1441: 1783: 342
Timeline of the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation (1577–1580) Timeline of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) Timeline of the English Civil War (1642–1651) Timeline of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) Timeline of the French Revolution (1789–1799) Timeline of the War of 1812 ...
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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970 (2009) excerpt and text search; Darwin, John. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (2013) Ferguson, Niall. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2002) Gallagher, John, and Ronald Robinson.
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
Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. For example: in the year 1800, European powers collectively claimed approximately 20% of the Earth's land surface that they did not effectively control. [8]
End of the Byzantine Empire (or Eastern Roman Empire to some); Constantinople becomes capital of Ottoman Empire. 1453: The Hundred Years' War ends. England's once vast territory in France is now reduced to only Calais, which they eventually lose control of as well. 1455: 22 May: Battle of St. Albans: Traditionally marks the beginning of the War ...
The term "Roman imperial period" has been used as opposed to "late antiquity", i.e. implying the "early" and "middle" imperial period of the late 1st century BC to the 3rd century CE. The "Roman imperial period" in this sense would end with the reforms under Diocletian and the beginning of the Christianization of the Roman Empire.