Time Periods/Eras to choose from. Each era is linked back to a wikipedia page about that time period.
Renaissance - Europe 14th - 16th Century
Florence
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Black Death
Elizabethan Era - United Kingdom - 1558 - 1603 Queen Elizabeth I
English Renaissance
Shakespeare
Restoration England - 1660 - 1685Charles II
Oliver Cromwell (evil)
American Revolution - 1763 - 1789
Declaration of Independence
Boston Tea Party
Revolutionary War
The French Revolution - 1789 - 1799Maire Antoinette
Louis XVI
The Palace of Versailles
Napoleonic Era - France/Europe 1799 - 1815Napoleon I
Georgian Era - Europe 1714 - 1830
King George I, II, III, IV
Regency Era
Jane Austen
American Civil War - 1861 - 1865Antebellum (pre war)
Gone With The Wind
Early Victorian
The Age of Enlightenment - Europe 18th CenturyIndustrial Revolution - Europe/United States 18th - 19th Century
Steam power
Gas lighting
Victorian Era - United Kingdom 1837 -1901Gothic Revival
The Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace, London 1851
Exposition Universelle (Debut of the Effeil Tower 1889 - Paris)
Irish Famine
Darwin
Jack the Ripper - London
Victorians - great site filled with info
Edwardian Era - United Kingdom 1901 - 1914Art Nouveau
World War I
Titantic sinking... I’ll never let go, Jack.
Beatrix Potter
J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
Romantic Era - early 1800's - early 1900's (Includes Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Eras)
Artists of the time...
Musicians:
MozartHaydn
Beethoven
Authors:
Lord ByronBronte Sisters
Edgar Allen Poe
Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
Keats
Washington Irving
Painters:
J.M.W. TurnerEugene Delacroix
Theodore Gericault
The Gilded Age - America - late 1800’s to early 1900’s
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Beaux-Arts
The building of Ellis Island
Susan B. Anthony - Woman’s Sufferage
The Glory of the Old West
The Roraring Twenties - America 1920’s (Golden Twenties - London/Paris/Berlin)
Jazz Music - Harlem Renaissance
Flappers/vamps
Art Deco
Nineteenth Amendment - Woman’s Right to Vote
Lost Generation - Paris
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Expressionism
Surrealism
Prohibition
Speakeasies
