<Li> Modern history--After the post-classical era <Ul> <Li> Early modern period--The chronological limits of this period are open to debate, it starts around the period after the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and ends around the French Revolution in 1789 and the beginning of the Age of Revolutions . </Li> <Li> Late modern period--Began approximately in the mid-18th century; notable historical milestones included the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence . <Ul> <Li> Machine Age (1880--1945) <Ul> <Li> Age of Oil (after 1901) </Li> <Li> World War I (1914--1918) </Li> <Li> Interwar period (1918--1939) <Ul> <Li> Roaring Twenties (1920--1929) </Li> <Li> Great Depression (1929--1939) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> World War II (1939--1945) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Contemporary history--History within living memory . It shifts forward with the generations, and today is the span of historic events from approximately 1945 that are immediately relevant to the present time . For example, the Post-Modern moviment (Soviet Union and United States, 1973--present) <Ul> <Li> Decades <Ul> <Li> The Forties (1940--1949) </Li> <Li> The Fifties (1950--1959) </Li> <Li> The Sixties (1960--1969) </Li> <Li> The Seventies (1970--1979) </Li> <Li> The Eighties (1980--1989) </Li> <Li> The Nineties (1990--1999) </Li> <Li> The Two Thousands (2000--2009) </Li> <Li> The Tens (2010--2019) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Atomic Age (after 1945) and The Nuclear Age (1950--present) <Ul> <Li> Post-war era (1946--1962) <Ul> <Li> Cold War (Soviet Union and United States, and their allies, 1945--1991) <Ul> <Li> Korean War (1950--1953) </Li> <Li> Vietnam War (1955--1975) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jet Age (1940s) </Li> <Li> Space Age (after 1957) </Li> <Li> Information Age (1970--present) <Ul> <Li> The Multimedia Age (1987--present) </Li> <Li> The Social Age (1996--present) </Li> <Li> The Big Data age (2001--present) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Contemporary Wars <Ul> <Li> War on Terrorism (2001--present) </Li> <Li> War in Afghanistan (2001--2014) </Li> <Li> War in Iraq (2003--2011) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> Early modern period--The chronological limits of this period are open to debate, it starts around the period after the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and ends around the French Revolution in 1789 and the beginning of the Age of Revolutions . </Li> <Li> Late modern period--Began approximately in the mid-18th century; notable historical milestones included the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence . <Ul> <Li> Machine Age (1880--1945) <Ul> <Li> Age of Oil (after 1901) </Li> <Li> World War I (1914--1918) </Li> <Li> Interwar period (1918--1939) <Ul> <Li> Roaring Twenties (1920--1929) </Li> <Li> Great Depression (1929--1939) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> World War II (1939--1945) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Contemporary history--History within living memory . It shifts forward with the generations, and today is the span of historic events from approximately 1945 that are immediately relevant to the present time . For example, the Post-Modern moviment (Soviet Union and United States, 1973--present) <Ul> <Li> Decades <Ul> <Li> The Forties (1940--1949) </Li> <Li> The Fifties (1950--1959) </Li> <Li> The Sixties (1960--1969) </Li> <Li> The Seventies (1970--1979) </Li> <Li> The Eighties (1980--1989) </Li> <Li> The Nineties (1990--1999) </Li> <Li> The Two Thousands (2000--2009) </Li> <Li> The Tens (2010--2019) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Atomic Age (after 1945) and The Nuclear Age (1950--present) <Ul> <Li> Post-war era (1946--1962) <Ul> <Li> Cold War (Soviet Union and United States, and their allies, 1945--1991) <Ul> <Li> Korean War (1950--1953) </Li> <Li> Vietnam War (1955--1975) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jet Age (1940s) </Li> <Li> Space Age (after 1957) </Li> <Li> Information Age (1970--present) <Ul> <Li> The Multimedia Age (1987--present) </Li> <Li> The Social Age (1996--present) </Li> <Li> The Big Data age (2001--present) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Contemporary Wars <Ul> <Li> War on Terrorism (2001--present) </Li> <Li> War in Afghanistan (2001--2014) </Li> <Li> War in Iraq (2003--2011) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> <Li> Early modern period--The chronological limits of this period are open to debate, it starts around the period after the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and ends around the French Revolution in 1789 and the beginning of the Age of Revolutions . </Li> <Li> Late modern period--Began approximately in the mid-18th century; notable historical milestones included the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence . <Ul> <Li> Machine Age (1880--1945) <Ul> <Li> Age of Oil (after 1901) </Li> <Li> World War I (1914--1918) </Li> <Li> Interwar period (1918--1939) <Ul> <Li> Roaring Twenties (1920--1929) </Li> <Li> Great Depression (1929--1939) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> World War II (1939--1945) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li>

The end of the middle ages is dated around 1500