History UsefulNotes / CommonHistoricalSettings

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Dinosaurs}} The Age of Dinosaurs]] (approximately 252.2-66 [=MYA=])

* HollywoodPrehistory (approximately 3.4 [=MYA=] - c.4,000 BC)

* AncientEgypt (approximately 3150-332 BC)

* Ancient China (approximately c.1600-221 BC)

** UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar (approximately 1194-1184 BC)

** {{Romanticism}}. The choice of writers in this era.f

** UsefulNotes/ArgentineCivilWar (1810-1880)

*** UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace (c. 1953-1969).

*** UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar (1990-1991). Also known as the Second Gulf War, or the First Gulf War.

** VikingsInAmerica
** TheLowMiddleAges (c. 400-1050 AD)
*** DarkAgeEurope (c 400-600 AD)

*** UsefulNotes/TheCrusades (1095/1096-1291). Subsequent Crusades were called, but fought far from the Holy Land.

*** UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar (c. 1119-1307/1314)

** UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition (1478/1480-1834)

** UsefulNotes/NewSpain (1521 - 1821)

* TheCavalierYears (c. 1600-1790 AD) (Europe)

** UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies (1607-1783) (Colonial America)

** {{Romanticism}}. The choice of writers in this era.

** [[UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies (1806-1871)

* TheDarkTimes. A time before the rise of mankind, with the world ruled by dark forces.
** [[UsefulNotes/{{Dinosaurs}} The Age of Dinosaurs]] (approximately 252.2-66 [=MYA=])
*** AgeOfReptiles: A primordial period where reptiles ruled the Earth.
*** TheDinosaursHadItComing: The dinosaurs brought their extinction upon themselves.
*** TheDayTheDinosaursDied: The K-Pg extinction is often depicted in media for dramatic effect.

** SwordAndSandal. Setting covering Mythological tales, Biblical Epics, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome in film.

* HollywoodMedievalJapan (Pre-1868)
** JidaiGeki (c. 794-1868)

*** UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun (r. 434-453)

*** UsefulNotes/HistoryOfEnglish

*** UsefulNotes/WuZetian (624-705)
*** UsefulNotes/MoorishSpain (c. 711-1492)

*** UsefulNotes/RobertTheBruce (1274-1329)
*** UsefulNotes/BlackDouglas (1286-1330)

* ArabianNightsDays (700-1000 AD)
* Goryeo Dynasty (modern Korea, 918-1392)
** UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWang (Goryeo's royal family)
* Joseon Dynasty (modern Korea, 1392-1910)
** UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfI (Joseon's royal family)

** UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}} (1525-1947)

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen (The Age of Sail, roughly mid-1400s to the late 1800s)

** UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy (c. 1650-1720)
*** UsefulNotes/BarbaryCoastWars
* UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod (Japanese Warring States Period, c. 1467-1603)

* UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment (c. 1650-1815)

* UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies (c. 1600-1790) (America)
** UsefulNotes/TheLostColonyOfRoanoke (1587-1590?)
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution (c. 1770-1787)
* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica (c. 1787-1861)

* UsefulNotes/QingDynasty (1644-1912)

** UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies (1806-1871)

*** [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic The Habsburg Empire]] (Holy Roman Empire 1273-1291, 1298-1308, 1314-1330, 1438-1740, 1745-1806, Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary 1804-1918)

** UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar (c. 1861-1865)

*** UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic (1918/1919-1933)
*** UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}} (1918/1929-1992/2003)

*** UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement (c. 1955-1968).
*** UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (1955-1975).

*** [[MediaNotes/MargaretThatcherInFiction Margaret Thatcher's Era (UK)]] (1979-1990)

** MedievalMorons
** HornyVikings: Vikings have horns on their helmets.

** MedievalUniversalLiteracy

* TheFuture
** JustBeforeTheEnd
** TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
** AfterTheEnd

** UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparteAndTheNapoleonicWarsInFiction

*** WorksSetInWorldWarII/WorksAboutTheHolocaust

*** TheDayTheDinosaurs Died: The K-Pg extinction is often depicted in media for dramatic effect.

*** PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs

* AncientRome (753 BC-476 AD)

** UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic (c. 509 -27 BC)

** UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire (27 BC -476/480/1453)

** UsefulNotes/JinDynasty (Western period 266–316, Eastern period 317–420)

*** UsefulNotes/TheCrusades (1095/1096-1291). Subsequent Crusades were actually called, but fought far from the Holy Land.

** UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia (Tsardom of Russia 1547-1721, Russian Empire 1721-1917)

* UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies (c. 1600-1790 AD) (America)

*** UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution (War of Independence 1919-1921, Civil War 1922-1923)

*** UsefulNotes/FascistItaly (Kingdom of Italy 1922-1943, Italian Social Republic 1943-1945)

*** UsefulNotes/RepublicanItaly (post-1946)

*** RedChina (post-1949)

*** UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (c. 1955-1975).

*** UsefulNotes/TheBerlinRepublic (Post-1990 Germany)
*** UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia (Post-1991 Russia)

** TheNew10s (2010s)

** TheNew20s (2020s)

** UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia (1547-1917)

** {{Romanticism}}. The choice of writers at this era.

** UsefulNotes/TheOpiumWars (1839-1842, and 1856-1860)

*** UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu (1918-1920)

* HollywoodPrehistory

*** Creator/{{Confucius}}

** UsefulNotes/MacedonianSuccessionWars (323/322-272 BC). From the death of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat to the start of a stable period under the Antigonid dynasty in Macedon. The rest of the Hellenistic kingdoms were more-or-less stable.

** UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire (330-1453).

** UsefulNotes/HanDynasty (Western period 202 BC – AD 9, Eastern period 25–220)

*** UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg (1937)

*** UsefulNotes/BrazilianMilitaryRegime (1964)

** TheGayNineties (1890s)

** TheRoaringTwenties (1920s). Also covers the final years of the 1910s.

*** UsefulNotes/TheSovietTwenties

** TheForties (1940s)

** TheFifties (1950s)

** TheSixties (1960s).

** TheSeventies (1970s)

** TheEighties (1980s)

** TheNineties (1990s)

** TheNewTens (2010s)

** TheNewTwenties (2020s)

* Ancient China (approximately c.1600-221 BC)
*** UsefulNotes/ShangDynasty (c.1600 BC – 1046 BC)
*** UsefulNotes/ZhouDynasty (770 BC – 256 BC)
*** Creator/{{Confucius}}

* AncientMesopotamia
** UsefulNotes/MesopotamianCivilizations