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Holocene Calendar The dates are frequently given by using the scientific Holocene calendar, as the human civilization dates entirely to the Holocene (Gr. holos whole, entire, + kainos > caeno > cene , new, recent; i.e., entirely recent) epoch that extends from the present to the past by about 10,000 radiocarbon years. The Holocene calendar sets the start of the current era to 10,000 BCE and dates in human history can then be listed using increasing date scale with smaller dates always occurring before larger dates. Thus

  Common Calendar Holocene Calendar Duration

Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor
Beginning of the Chinese Calendar

 2698 BCE 7302  

Age of Pharaohs		 3000
to
526 BCE		 7000
to
9474		  

Roman Empire
753 BCE
to
476		  

9247
to
10476

 

  
     

Saeculum Obscurum		 476
to
673		 10476
to
10673		 208 Years
(Secular)

Carolingian Age		 685
to
896		 10685
to
10896		 211 Years
(Religious)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Age of Byzantium

 896
to
1096		 10876
to
1196		 200 Years
(Secular)

Age of Crusades		 1096
to
1291		 11096
to
11291		 195 Years
(Religious)

Renaissance		 1291
to
1521		 11291
to
11521		 230 Years
(Secular)

Protestant Reformation
Luther at Worms (1521)
Calvin in Geneva (1541-1564)

 		 1521
to
1789		 11521
to
11789		 268 Years
(Religious)

Enlightenment Epoch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 1789
to
1989		 11789
to
11989		 200 Years
(Secular)


Fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond ...

 

 

 

 

 

 
1989
 

11989

 (Religious)