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This is a list of level 3 vitality figures. People with a career spanning across more than one time period are colored in between their two respective eras. The timelines only contain people from vitality level 3 (which excludes figures like Abraham and Moses as they fall under the 'Philosophy and religion' categories).

Overview

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from:1828 till:1910 color:transmod text:Tolstoy

from:1831 till:1879 color:transmod text:Maxwell

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from:1844 till:1900 color:Rom text:Nietzsche

from:1847 till:1931 color:transmod text:Edison

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from:1889 till:1977 color:transpos text:Chaplin

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from:1906 till:1978 color:transpos text:Gödel

from:1912 till:1954 color:transpos text:Turing

from:1918 till:2013 color:Pos text:Mandela

from:1958 till:2009 color:Pos text:Jackson

from:1960 till:1970 color:Pos text:The Beatles

Ancient

See also Ancient history, Ancient music, and Outline of ancient history.

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Post-classical

See also post-classical history, Middle ages, Byzantine Empire, Muslim conquest of Persia, Mongol Empire, Yan Dynasty, Asuka period, Nara period, Heian period, and Kamakura period.

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See also early modern period, Renaissance era, Ming Dynasty, Age of Exploration, Muromachi period, and Azuchi–Momoyama period

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See also Baroque era, British Interregnum, Stuart restoration, and Afsharid Iran.

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See also Age of revolution, Neoclassicism, Georgian era, Convicts in Australia, Zand dynasty, and Age of Enlightenment.

See Classicism, Classical period (music), List of Classical era composers, Age of Enlightenment, and Neoclassical architecture.

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Long nineteenth century

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See also Modernism, Impressionism, Pahlavi Iran, and Republic of China (1912–1949).

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from:1874 till:1910 color:transmod text:Tolstoy

from:1874 till:1879 color:transmod text:Maxwell

from:1874 till:1907 color:transmod text:Mendeleev

from:1874 till:1931 color:transmod text:Edison

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from:1874 till:1939 color:transmod text:Freud

from:1874 till:1943 color:transmod text:Tesla

from:1874 till:1941 color:transmod text:Tagore

from:1874 till:1900 color:transmod text:Ford

from:1874 till:1934 color:transmod text:Curie

from:1874 till:1948 color:mostlymod text:Gandhi

from:1878 till:1953 color:Mod text:Stalin

from:1879 till:1955 color:Mod text:Einstein

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from:1882 till:1935 color:Mod text:Noether

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Contemporary and 21st century

See also Contemporary history, 21st century history, Postmodernism, Contemporary art, Contemporary music, Islamic Republic of Iran, History of India (1947–present), Shōwa era, Heisei period, Reiwa period, and History of the United States (2016–present).

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Guidelines

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For every era, we come up with one global, and one regional (for continent) eras. If a person matches a local era, then they'll go there, even if it's outside the bounds of the global era. However, if we can't find their regional era, then they'll go within the bounds of the global era. The global and local eras will have the same colors. Here are the eras:

Within these eras, in the individual timelines (unlike the overview, which could be broader) we can also break each era down into periods and color them slightly differently, blending in both the current era and the era that its closest to. The eras / periods may slightly differ depending on things like location and profession.

Here are the color codes for the overview, which should be more specific within individual timelines, and a person spanning across two eras will be colored in between these two eras. These are the colors which are (for the most part) currently in the timeline sandbox.

:Prehistory: black

:Ancient: brown

:Post - classical history: gold

:Early modern: blue

:Middle modern: green

:Late modern: yellow

:Long nineteenth: dark pink

:Early 19th century: orange

:Contemporary: bright pink

:Some example of transitional color eras:

:Code for Postclassical: PCH

:Code for Renaissance: Ren

:Transren: colored exactly in between ren and PC

:mostlyren: colored between Ren and transren

:lateren: colored between Ren and mostlyren

:(the same will work for the rest of the eras for the most part)

Global era: Prehistory (3 million BC - 3,000 BC) - Black - Nobody currently on there, but this could be in case someone gets added onto there one day - between humans' formation and writing being invented.Renfrew, Colin. 2008. Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind. New York: Modern Library{{Cite book|title=World Prehistory: A brief introduction|last=Fagan|first=Brian|date=2017|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-27910-5|edition=Ninth|location=London|page=8|oclc=958480847}} This can extend much later, for example, Australia extends to its Prehistoric period until 1788, which is when it was first colonized{{Cite archive|collection=19: Letter from Arthur Phillip to the Marquis of Lansdowne, 3 July 1788|institution=State Library of NSW|item-url=https://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=FL1056053|item-id=SAFE/MLMSS 7241 (Safe 1/234)|first=Arthur|last=Phillip|item=digitised letter}} and developed writing systems (unless you include the age of discovery, which started in 1400, or include oral tradition){{Cite book |last=Mahuika |first=Nepia |date=2019-11-14 |title=Rethinking Oral History and Tradition |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190681685.001.0001 |doi=10.1093/oso/9780190681685.001.0001 |isbn=978-0-19-068168-5}} .

:- Prehistoric Libya: before 600 BC

Global era: Ancient - Brown - (3000 BC - 500 AD)

:Time periods:

:{{Icon|C}} Neolithic / pre-early ancient - 10,000 BC - 2,000 BC (can also be a part of prehistory) - color: mostly prehistoric, less ancient

:Bronze age / early ancient - 3,300 BC - 1,200 BC (can also be a part of prehistory) - color: prehistoric-ancient

: - For Bronze Age Europe this is 3,000 BC - 1,050 BC - color:

: - Iran: Kura–Araxes culture - 3,400 BC - 2,000 BC

: - India: 3,300 BC - 1,800 BC

:Iron age / middle ancient - 1,200 BC - 550 BC (can also be a part of prehistory) - mostly ancient, less prehistoric

: - For Iron Age Europe this is 1,050 - 776 BC (for consistency)

: - Iran (for them this is still a part of pre-history): 2,000 BC - 1,000 BC

: - India: 1,800 BC - 200 BC

:Late ancient (or sometimes late iron ages) - 550 BC - 476 AD (every established era during this time, such as late antiquity is not global) - color: ancient

: - For Ancient Egypt this is 664 BC - 900 AD

: - For Europe this is 776 BC - 476 AD

: - Iran: 1,000 BC - 651 AD

: - Classical India: 200 BC - 500 AD

:Regional eras:

:- Classical antiquity for Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome (8th Century BC - 5th Century BC) - color: ancient

:{{Icon|B}} Late antiquity - 3rd century AD - 8th century AD (can include areas other than Greece and Rome, such as Europe) color: ancient-postclassical

:- Early Libya:

:Carthaginian Libya - 600 BC - 200 BC - color: mostly ancient, less pre-historic

:Roman Libya: 200 BC - 487 AD color: ancient

:- Mesoamerica:

:Archaic period - 8000 BC - 2600 BC (can include prehistory) - color: mostly prehistoric, less ancient

:Mesoamerican Preclassic period - 2000 BC - 250 AD - color:ancient

:Mesoamerican Classic period - 250 AD - 900 AD - color:ancient-postclassical

:- Ancient China

:Xia Dynasty era - 2070 BC - 1600 BC color: prehistoric-ancient

:Shang Dynasty era - 1600 BC - 1046 BC color: mostly ancient, less prehistoric

:Middle ancient - 1046 BC - 220 AD color: ancient

:Three kingdoms era - 220 AD - 580 AD color: ancient-postclassical

:Archaic Japan:

:{{Icon|C}} Jōmon period - 13,000 BC - 300 BC color: prehistoric-ancient

:{{Icon|C}} Yayoi period - 450 BC - 250 AD color: ancient

:Kofun period - 250 AD - 538 AD color: ancient-postclassical

:Archaic Mesopotamia:

:{{Icon|B}} Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) - 2900 BC - 2270 BC color: prehistoric-ancient

:Middle Archaic Period - 2270 BC - 1178 BC color: mostly ancient, less prehistoric

:Late Archaic Period - 1177 BC - 549 BC color: ancient

:Imperial Period - 549 BC - 651 AD color: ancient-postclassical

Global era: post-classical history - Gold - (500 AD - 1500 AD) - abbreviated PCH

:Time periods:

:Early Postclassical - 476 - 800 - color: Early PCH (abbreviated EPCH)

: - This is still ancient for Egypt

: - For countries affected by the Byzantine Empire this starts at 330 AD

: - Iran: Muslim conquest of Persia era - 651 - 820 AD

: - Vandal Libya: 487 - 600

:Middle Postclassical - 800 - 1200 - color: PCH (PCH)

: - For Egypt this starts at 868

: - Iran: 820 - 1219

: - Islamic Libya: 600 - 1200

:Late Postclassical - 1200 - 1500 - color: Late PCH (abbreviated LPCH)

: - For Egypt this ends at 1517

: - For Mongolia, this is replaced by the Mongol Empire era - 1206 - 1380

: - For the Byzantine Empire this ends at 1453

: - Iran: 1219 - 1501

:Regional eras:

:Postclassic Period - 900 - 1521 AD (Mesoamerica)

:Time periods:

:Early Postclassic - 900 - 1200 - color: EPCH

:Late Postclassic - 1200 - 1521 - color: LPCH

:Imperial China:

:Early Imperial China - 580 - 960 - color: EPCH

:Middle Imperial China - 960 - 1271 - color: PCH

:Yan Dynasty era / Late Imperial China - 1271 - 1368 - color: LPCH

:Middle ages - 476 - 1500 (Europe)

:Europe Time periods:

:Early middle ages - late 5th century - 10th century - color: EPCH

: - For Scandanavia this is the Viking age - 793 - 1066

:High middle ages - 1,000 - 1,300 color: MPCH

:Late middle ages - 1,300 - 1,500 color: LPCH

:Feudal Japan:

:{{Icon|C}} Asuka period and Nara period - 643 - 794 - color: EPCH

:{{Icon|C}} Heian period - 795 - 1185 - color: PCH

:Kamakura period - 1185 - 1333 - color: LPCH

Global era: Early modern - 1400 - 1600 - Blue (time period ended early to add the "middle modern" and have it be more specific)

:First early modern: 1400 - 1500 - color: first early modern (abbreviated FEM)

:Second early modern: 1500 - 1550 - color: early modern (abbreviated EM)

:Third early modern: 1550 - 1600 - color: third early modern (abbreviated LEM)

:Regional eras:

:Ming Dynasty era - 1368 - 1644 (China) color: EM

:Age of exploration - 1418 - 1620 (For explorers) color: EM

:{{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Renaissance - 1400 - 1600 (Europe)

:Time periods:

:Early Renaissance - 1400 - 1490 - color: FEM

: - For England this is still the middle ages - color: LPCH

:High Renaissance - 1490 - 1527 - color: EM

: - For England this is the Tudor period - 1485 - 1558 in this case

:Late Renaissance - 1527 - 1600 - color: LEM

: - For Poland, this is the Polish Golden Age - 1507 - 1572

: - For England, this is the Elizabethan era - 1558 - 1603

:Samurai Japan

:{{Icon|C}} Muromachi period: 1333 - 1573 - color: EM

:Azuchi–Momoyama period - 1573 - 1603 - color: LEM

Global era: Middle modern - 1600 - 1750 - Green

:First middle modern - 1600 - 1650 - color: first middle modern (abbreviated FMM)

:Second middle modern - 1650 - 1700 - color: second middle modern (abbreviated MM)

:Third middle modern - 1700 - 1750 - color: third middle modern (abbreviated TMM)

:Regional eras:

:{{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Baroque - 1600 - 1750 - Europe

:Time periods:

:Early Baroque - 1600 - 1650 - color: FMM

: - For the British Isles this is the Jacobean era - 1603 - 1625

:Middle Baroque - 1650 - 1730 - color: MM

: - British Isles: Caroline era - 1625 - 1649

:{{Icon|B}} Rococo / Late Baroque - 1730 - 1769 color: TMM

: - British Isles: British Interregnum and Stuart restoration - 1649 - 1714

: - Iran: Afsharid Iran - 1736 - 1750

Global era: Late Modern - 1750 - 1800 - color: yellow (abbreviated LM)

:Regional eras:

:{{Icon|C}} Age of Revolution - 1765 - 1848 - Europe and the Americas - color: LM-LNC

:{{Icon|C}} Neoclassicism - 1730 - 1830 - Europe - color:LM

:- For the United Kingdom this is the Georgian era - 1714 - 1830

:Convict era - 1788 - 1868 - Australia - color: LM-LNC

:Zand Iran - 1750 - 1794 - LM

Global era: Long nineteenth century - 1789 - 1914 - Color: Dark Pink (abbreviated LNC)

:Time periods:

:Early LNC: 1789 - 1830 color: Depends, usually either Early LNC (ELNC) - TMM, or with one more than the other

:Middle LNC: 1830 - 1860 color: LNC

:Late LNC: 1860 - 1900 color: Late LNC (LLNC)

:Post-Late LNC (PLLNC) - 1900 - 1914 color: PLLNC - Early 19th century

:Regional eras:

:{{Icon|C}} Federation of Australia - 1890 - 1918 color: LNC

:{{Icon|C}} Qajar Iran - 1794 - 1925 color: LNC

:Europe time periods:

:Early Romantic era - 1770 - 1799 - TMM-ELNC

:Napoleonic era / Middle romantic - 1799 - 1815 color: LNC

:Late Romantic era - 1815 - 1850 -

:Post-Romantic - 1850 - 1900 - PLLC

: - In the British Empire this would be replaced by the Victorian era - 1837 - 1901

: - For Egypt this is the Khedivate of Egypt - 1867 - 1914

: - For classical music this would be replaced by the late Romantic, and the years will slightly differ

: - For France this is the Belle Époque - 1871 - 1914

: - Japan: Meiji period - 1868 - 1912

:Mexico:

:Independence era: 1810 - 1846 - ELNC

:Liberal Mexico: 1846 - 1911 - LNC

Global era: Early 20th century (E20) - 1900 - 1945 - Orange

: - For Egypt this ends in 1953

:Regional eras:

:Colonial Libya: 1900 - 1950

:Pahlavi Iran - 1925 - 1979

:{{Icon|C}} Republic of China (1912–1949) era

:{{Icon|B}} Modernism - Europe - 1874 - 1960

Global era: Contemporary History

:Time periods:

:Late 20th century (L20) - 1945 - 2000 - Bright Orange (these colors will be slightly different than the overview because of the background)

: -Modern Mexico: 1910 - 2000 - color: E20-L20

:{{Icon|LIST}} 21st century (color: 21) - 2000 - today - Bright Pink (this will help out more in the future)

:Regional time periods:

: -Contemporary Mexico: 2000 - Present - color: 21

:{{Icon|C}} Postmodernism - The west - 1960 - Today (exact end date unclear, 20th century still applies for the individual timeline) - color: depends; some combination of L20 and 21

:People's Republic of China - since 1949 - L20-21

:Islamic Republic of Iran era - 1979 - present - L20-21

:{{Icon|B}} Indian Independence era: 1947 - present - L20-21

:Contemporary Japan:

:Shōwa era - 1926 - 1989 - E20-L20

:Heisei period - 1989 - 2019 - L20-21

:Reiwa period - 2019 - present - 21

:Contemporary Libya - 2011 - present - 21

:Contemporary United States - 2016 - present - 21

See also