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Main articles: Early Modern Times, Early Modern Europe, List of Historical periods, and Periodization

In general, historians generally place the end of the Middle Ages at the beginning of the Reformation ca. 1517—1525 (usually rounded down to 1500) and ending in the late 18th century with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the events leading up to the French Revolution of 1789.

This category is for events and people who fill the interval in between.