Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Historical-Periods

Hi, polyglots.

When you decide to pick up the history of a region, you are facing a lot of events and figures. Here is a list of the most significant of them, starting from neolithic periods.

In progress

China

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Yellow River civilisation	c. 7500 BC – c. 1400 BC
Yangtze River civilisation	c. 7000 BC – c. 1600 BC
Liáo River civilisation	c. 7000 BC – c. 500 BC
Xià dynasty	c. 2070 BC – c. 1600 BC
Shāng dynasty	c. 1600 BC – c. 1046 BC
Zhōu dynasty: Western Zhōu	1046 BC – 771 BC
Spring and Autumn (Zhōu dynasty: Eastern Zhōu)	c. 770 BC – c. 476 BC (771 BC – 256 BC)
Warring States (Zhōu dynasty: Eastern Zhōu)	475 BC – 221 BC (771 BC – 256 BC)
Qín dynasty	221 BC – 207 BC
Hàn dynasty: Western Hàn	206 BC – 9
Xīn dynasty	9 – 23
Hàn dynasty: Eastern Hàn	25 – 220
Three Kingdoms	220 – 280
Jìn dynasty: Western Jìn	266 – 316
Jìn dynasty: Eastern Jìn	317 – 420
Sixteen Kingdoms	304 – 439
Northern and Southern dynasties	420 – 589
Suí dynasty	581 – 618
Táng dynasty	618 – 907
Wǔ Zhōu	690 – 705
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms	907 – 979
Liáo dynasty	916 – 1125
Sòng dynasty: Northern Sòng	960 – 1127
Sòng dynasty: Southern Sòng	1127 – 1279
Western Xià	1038 – 1227
Jīn dynasty	1115 – 1234
Yuán dynasty	1271 – 1368
Míng dynasty	1368 – 1644
Qīng dynasty	1644 – 1912
Republic of China	1912 –
People's Republic of China	1949 –

Egypt

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Predynastic Period	c. 6000 BC – c. 3000 BC
Early Dynastic Period	3150 BC – 2686 BC
Old Kingdom	2686 BC – 2181 BC
First Intermediate Period	2181 BC – 2055 BC
Middle Kingdom	2055 BC – 1650 BC
Second Intermediate Period	1650 BC – 1550 BC
New Kingdom	1550 BC – 1069 BC
Third Intermediate Period	1069 BC – 664 BC
Late Period	664 BC – 332 BC
Argead dynasty	332 BC – 310 BC
Ptolemaic dynasties	310 BC – 30 BC
Roman rule in Egypt	30 BC – 641
Sasanian rule in Egypt	619 – 629
Rashidun Caliphate	641 – 661
Umayyad Caliphate	661 – 750
Abbasid Caliphate	750 – 935
Tulunid dynasty	868 – 905
Ikhshidid dynasty	935 – 969
Fatimid dynasty	969– 1171
Ayyubid dynasty	1171 – 1250
Mamluk dynasty	1250 – 1517
Ottoman rule in Egypt	1517 – 1867
French campaign in Egypt	1798 – 1801
Muhammad Ali dynasty	1805 – 1953
Khedivate of Egypt	1867 – 1914
British rule in Egypt	1882 – 1922
Sultanate of Egypt	1914 – 1922
Kingdom of Egypt	1922 – 1953
Republic of Egypt	1953 –

Greece

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Pelasgians	c. 7000 BC – c. 3200 BC
Helladic civilisation	c. 3200 BC – c. 1050 BC
Cycladic civilisation	c. 3100 BC – c. 1000 BC
Minoan civilisation	c. 3100 BC – c. 1100 BC
Mycenaean civilisation	c. 1750 BC – c. 1050 BC
Greek Dark Ages	c. 1200 BC – c. 800 BC
Archaic Greece	c. 800 BC – 480 BC
Classical Greece	510 BC – 323 BC
Hellenistic Greece	323 BC – 31 BC
Roman rule in Greece	146 BC – 330
Constantinian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	306 – 363 (330 – 1460)
Valentinian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	364 – 392, 425 – 455 (330 – 1460)
Theodosian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	379 – 457 (330 – 1460)
Leonid dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	457 – 518 (330 – 1460)
Justinian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	518 – 602 (330 – 1460)
Heraclian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	610 – 711 (330 – 1460)
Isaurian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	717 – 802 (330 – 1460)
Nikephorian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	802 – 813 (330 – 1460)
Amorian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	820 – 860 (330 – 1460)
Macedonian dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	867 – 1056 (330 – 1460)
Doukas dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	1059 – 1081 (330 – 1460)
Komnenos dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	1081 – 1185 (330 – 1460)
Angelos dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	1185 – 1204 (330 – 1460)
Palaiologos dynasty (Byzantine Greece)	1261 – 1453 (330 – 1460)
Kingdom of Candia	1205 – 1667
Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands	1363 – 1797
Ottoman rule in Greece	1371 – 1912
Republic of the Seven Islands	1800 – 1807
Greek War of Independence	1821 – 1829
First Hellenic Republic	1822 – 1832
Kingdom of Greece	1832 – 1924
Second Hellenic Republic	1924 – 1935
4th of August Regime	1936 – 1941
Occupation of Greece by the Axis	1941 – 1944
Greek Civil War	1946 – 1949
Greek junta	1967 – 1974
Third Hellenic Republic	1974 –

India

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Indus Valley civilisation	c. 3300 BC – c. 1700 BC
Cemetery H Culture	c. 1700 BC – c. 1500 BC
Vedic period	c. 1500 BC – c. 500 BC
Mahājanapadas	c. 600 BC – c. 345 BC
Magadha: Haryanka dynasty	544 BC – 413 BC
Magadha: Shaishunaga dynasty	413 BC – 345 BC
Magadha: Nanda dynasty	345 BC – 322 BC
Magadha: Maurya dynasty	322 BC – 184 BC
Magadha: Shunga dynasty	187 BC – 73 BC
Magadha: Kanva dynasty	75 BC – 28 BC
Chola dynasty	c. 4th century BC – 1279
Pandyan dynasty	400 BC – 1618
Satavahana dynasty	c. 30 BC – c. 220
Kushan Empire	30 – 375
Gupta Empire	c. 240 – c. 550
Chalukya dynasty	c. 500 – c. 647
Pushyabhuti dynasty	c. 606 – c. 647
Karkota dynasty	625 – 855
Tripartite Struggle	c. 760 – c. 973
Western Chalukya Empire	973 – 1184
Delhi Sultanate	1206 – 1526
Vijayanagara Empire	1336 – 1646
Bengal Sultanate	1342 – 1576
Mughal dynasty	1526 – 1857
Sur Empire	1538 – 1555
Maratha Confederacy	1674 – 1818
Company rule in India	1757 – 1858
Kingdom of Mysore	1760 – 1799
Sikh Empire	1799 – 1849
The Great Rebellion	1857 – 1858
British Raj	1858 – 1947
Union of India	1947 – 1950
Republic of India	1950 –

Iran

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Shulaveri–Shomu culture	c. 6000 BC – 5000 BC
Zayandeh River culture	6th millennium BC
Dalma culture	5th millennium BC
Kura–Araxes culture	c. 3400 BC – c. 2000 BC
Proto-Elamite period	c. 3100 BC – c. 2700 BC
Jiroft culture	c. 2500 BC – c. 2200 BC
Lullubi Kingdom	c. 3100 BC – 675 BC
Elam	c. 3200 BC – 539 BC
Marhaši	c. 2550 BC – c. 2020 BC
Oxus Civilization	c. 2400 BC – c. 1700 BC
Akkadian Empire	c. 2334 BC – c. 2154 BC
Kassites	c. 1531 BC – c. 1155 BC
Avestan period	c. 1500 BC – c. 500 BC
Neo-Assyrian Empire	911 BC – 609 BC
Urartu	860 BC – 590 BC
Mannaea	850 BC – 616 BC
Zikirti	750 BC – 521 BC
Saparda	720 BC – 670 BC
Median Kingdom	c. 678 BC – c. 550 BC
Scythian Kingdom	652 BC – 625 BC
Anshanite Kingdom	635 BC – 550 BC
Neo-Babylonian Empire	626 BC – 539 BC
Sogdia	c. 6th century BC – 11th century
Achaemenid Empire	550 BC – 330 BC
Kingdom of Armenia	331 BC – 428
Atropatene	c. 323 BC – 226
Kingdom of Cappadocia	331 BC – 17
Seleucid Empire	312 BC – 63 BC
Kingdom of Pontus	281 BC – 62
Parthian Empire	247 BC – 224
Elymais	147 BC – 221/222
Characene	141 BC – 222
Darayanids	132 BC – 224
Indo-Parthian Kingdom	19 – 226
Paratarajas	c.125 – c.30
Sasanian Empire	224 – 651
Zarmihrid dynasty	6th century – 785
Qarinvand dynasty	c. 550 –11th century

Japan

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Jōmon period (includes paleolithic period)	c. 14000 BC – c. 1000 BC
Yayoi period	c. 1000 BC – c. 300
Kofun period	c. 300 – 538
Asuka period	538 – 710
Nara period	710 – 794
Heian period	794 – 1185
Kamakura period	1185 – 1333
Nanboku-chō period (Muromachi period)	1336 – 1392 (1336 – 1573)
Sengoku period (Muromachi period)	1467 – 1573 (1336 – 1573)
Azuchi–Momoyama period	1573 – 1603
Edo period	1603 – 1868
Meiji period	1868 – 1912
Taishō period	1912 – 1926
Shōwa period	1926 – 1989
Heisei period	1989 – 2019
Reiwa period	2019 –

Mesopotamia

period	time span	event	figure	literature	technology	artwork
Jemdet Nasr period	c. 3100 BC – c. 2900 BC
Early Dynastic period	c. 2900 BC – c. 2350 BC
Akkadian Empire	c. 2334 BC – c. 2154 BC
Third Dynasty of Ur	c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC
Isin-Larsa period	c. 2025 BC – c. 1763 BC
First Babylonian Empire	c. 1894 BC – c. 1595 BC
Hittite Empire	c. 1650 BC – c. 1180 BC
Kingdom of Mitanni	c. 1600 BC – c. 1260 BC
Kassite Empire	c. 1531 BC – c. 1155 BC
Neo-Assyrian Empire	911 BC – 609 BC
Chaldean Empire	626 BC – 539 BC