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A Timeline of Modernity
A Timeline of Modernity
Late
modern
Early
modern
Coronati
on of
Victoria
1838
15th
Century
Restoratio
n of
monarchy
1660
1789-99
French
Revolution
British
Enlightenm
ent
Death of
Victoria
1901
Today
Modernism
Late 19C
early 20C
Earliest
recorded use
of modern in
our sense
Of or relating to the present and recent times, as opposed to the remote past; of, relating to, or originating in the current age
or period.
1585 T. WASHINGTON tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie I. xv. 16 b, The writings of the auncient
and moderne Geographers and Historiographers