What do other countries call the Tudor, Victorian etc. periods?

[Stu in USA]

There has been a question lately about what to call this time. Also a medieval themed party Q where it was suggested that Shakespeare and Henry VIII were not medieval and that the medieval period ended in 1485, which was the death of Richard III and beginning of Tudor. Do other countries consider the death of an English King to be the end of medieval? Do they refer to other periods that are named after English monarchs?

[Ethel]

I don't know about all the countries - there are a lot of them!

But the French refer to their historic periods as:

Antiquity (200 BC - 481)
Middle Ages (481-1453)
Renaissance (1453-1598)
Grand Siecle (1598-1715)
Revolution (1715-1804)
Napoleonic Era (1804-1870)
19th Century
20th Century

This is an interesting site, giving the history of different countries throughout the mediaeval age.

http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_per iods/the_medieval_age/

[Stu in USA]

Thanks Ethel, one down, another 200 odd to go! I know that here in the USA and I expect most Commonwealth countries they use the same historic periods as the UK. What about other European countries?

[Kingaroo]

Stu, I defy you to find me an American who refers to the post-1485 period in America as Tudor. Sure, we call ENGLISH history after 1485 Tudor, but not Chinese African or German. Each country has names for its own political epochs and they don't coincide on the dates. Ming Dynasty, etc. Nor would we expect English peole to talk about the early 1800s as antebellum.