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Modern era, Modern period, or Modern times, Early modern Europe

Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeframe after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period. Contemporary history describes the span of historic events that are immediately relevant to the present time. The term Modern era, Modern period, or Modern Times is used by historians to loosely describe the period of time immediately following what is known as the early modern period. It is to be distinguished from the term of Modernity.

The beginning of the modern era started approximately in the 1500s. In England the modern period is often dated to the start of the Tudor period with the victory of Henry VII over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Many major events caused the Western world to change around turn of the 16th century, starting with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fall of Muslim Spain and discovery of the Americas in 1492, and Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation in 1517. The span of early modern European history generally begins from the turn of the 15th century, through the Age of Reason and Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century.

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Religious

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