What with my interest in history, I was thinking in terms of how each century has a formative event and a central event (Remember that I'm viewing these events from the perspective of Western history!)
Century Formative Event Central Event
13th Third Crusade Imperial-Papal
----- (1189-92) conflict (1237-50)
14th Creation of the Black Death
----- Mongol Empire
15th Papal Schism Renaissance
----- (1378-1417)
16th Da Gama's Reformation
----- voyage to India
17th Counter- 30 Years War
----- Reformation (1618-48)
18th War of the Enlightenment
----- Grand Alliance
----- (1689-1702)
19th French Industrial
----- Revolution Revolution
----- (1789-1814)
20th World War I World War II
----- (1914-18) (1937-45)
I noticed that there's less certainty with formative events than with central events. I chose Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India over Columbus' discovery of the route to America: that's because Da Gama transformed Europe a lot more quickly. I chose the War of the Grand Alliance over the later War of the Spanish Succession (1702-15) simply because this was basically a continuation of the earlier war. And I chose the French Revolution over the American Revolution (sorry, Americans) because it changed Europe more directly.
Notice also that I have the Second World War starting in 1937 instead of 1939 because I see the Pacific War as starting with Japan's 1937 invasion of China.
I've also been thinking in terms of millennia!
Millennium Formative Central
Event Event
Late Median Alexander the
Ancient conquest of Great's conquest
(500 BC- Nineveh of Persia
500 AD) (612 BC) (331 BC)
Medieval Fall of the Creation of the
(500 AD- Roman Holy Roman
1500) Empire (476) Empire (800)
Modern Renaissance Enlightenment
(1500-)
Very schematic of me, I know...
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