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476 BCE
Age Antiquity
With the birth of writing, and ends in the year 476 AD, with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. -
Period: 2 BCE to 3 BCE
Prehistory
Prehistory is the period from the appearance of the first human beings to the invention of writing. -
476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the Byzantine eastern empire survives until the fall of Constantinople -
Period: 476 to 1492
Middle Ages
Its beginning is in the year 476, the year of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and its end in 1492, the year in which Columbus arrived in America. -
1453
MODERN AGE
Chronologically, it houses a period whose beginning can be set at the fall of Constantinople (1453) or the discovery of America (1492), and whose end can be placed at the French Revolution (1789) or at the end of the previous decade, after independence. of the United States (1776). -
May 29, 1453
Fall of constantinople
By the Ottomans put an end to the Byzantine Empire.
After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople spelled the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman rule. -
Oct 12, 1492
Discovery of America
By Christopher Columbus.
Columbus reached what we know today as America when he met the Antilles and landed on the island of Guanahaní, which he named San Salvador. -
United States independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the American Declaration of Independence. -
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Contemporary Age
Contemporary Age is the name by which the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States or the French Revolution is designated, and the present. Starting from the French Revolution, it covers a total of 233 years, between 1789 and the present. -
French Revolution
It represented the end of a world, what would later be called the Old Regime