The Early Modern World

Events of roughly 1453 to 1789: the Reformation and the wars of religion it set off, the great voyages of exploration and conquest that opened sustained contact between the Old World and the Americas, the Atlantic slave trade as an institution that took its lasting shape across this period, the Thirty Years War, the Glorious Revolution, and the colonial foundings and constitutions of early English America. Belongs here: an event dated within this atlas's own Early Modern Period era window, or tied to it by a live In Era relationship already recorded on the entity. Does not belong here: an event dated 1789 or later even where its causes reach back earlier, grouped under one of the four Age subcategories below by this atlas's own already-recorded boundary (the era entity The Early Modern Period ends and The Late Modern Period begins exactly at 1789).