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  2. Modern era - Wikipedia

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    The modern period is today more often used for events from the 19th century until today. The time from the end of World War II (1945) can also be described as being part of contemporary history. The common definition of the modern period today is often associated with events like the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the ...

  3. 19th century - Wikipedia

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    The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century. [4]

  4. Late modern period - Wikipedia

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    Historians [which?] define the 19th century historical era as stretching from 1815 (the Congress of Vienna) to 1914 (the outbreak of the First World War). Alternatively, Eric Hobsbawm defined the "Long Nineteenth Century" as spanning the years 1789 to 1914.

  5. Timeline of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    The disease killed an estimated 25 percent of the adult population of Europe during the 19th century. [7] The first batch of recordings of audio Made in April 1860. The recordings include a tuning fork, Au clair de la lune, opening lines of Torquato Tasso's Aminta, vocal scale and Fly, little bee. [ 8 ]

  6. List of conflicts by duration - Wikipedia

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    18 years Mahdist War: 1881: 1899: 18 years Second Punic War: 218 BC: 201 BC: 17 years Ethiopian Civil War: 12 September 1974: 4 June 1991: 16 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 2 days First Sudanese Civil War: 18 August 1955: 27 March 1972: 16 years, 7 months, 1 week and 2 days Bolivian War of Independence: 1809: 1825: 16 years Chilean War of ...

  7. Timelines of modern history - Wikipedia

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    For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century; For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century. For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I; For 1939–1945 see Timeline of World War II

  8. Industrial warfare - Wikipedia

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    Industrial warfare [1] is a period in the history of warfare ranging roughly from the early 19th century and the start of the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the Atomic Age, which saw the rise of nation-states, capable of creating and equipping large armies, navies, and air forces, through the process of industrialization.

  9. Portal:Modern history - Wikipedia

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    From the 1990s, it is more common among historians to refer to the period after the Middle Ages and up to the 19th century as the early modern period. The modern period is today more often used for events from the 19th century until today. The time from the end of World War II (1945) can also be described as being part of contemporary history.