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2 days ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
4 days ago · Notable historical events in the late 18th century, that marked the transition from the early modern period to the late modern period, include: the American Revolution (1765–91), French Revolution (1789–99), and beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1760.
2 days ago · By the 1890s, German colonial expansion in Asia and the Pacific (Jiaozhou Bay and Tianjin in China, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, Samoa) led to frictions with the UK, Russia, Japan, and the US.
12 hours ago · According to Rohl, the new system emerged in stages: the period 1888-1890 was dominated by the conflict with the 'all-powerful" Bismarck; the years 1890-1897 were ones of transition from an "improvised" to "an institutionalised personal rule" (the latter phrase borrowed from the German constitutional historian, Huber); the period 1897 -1908 repr...
1 day ago · After much deliberation the Brussels Conference Act of 1890 was adopted, coming into force 1 April 1891. It effectively ended the Arab slave trade in Africa. But historians have argued the agreement did not contain enforcement mechanisms to end slavery – notably forced labour – in which Europeans exploited Africans.
3 days ago · Footnotes. THE AGE OF REFORMS, 1800–82. In the early decades of the new century the University continued in its traditional ways, small in numbers and parochial in outlook.
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1 day ago · After gaining power in 1933, Hitler established the Third Reich and soon thereafter embarked on a ruinous crusade to conquer Europe and exterminate Jews, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, and others.
