It begins with the discovery of the American continents and ends with the French revolution.
* The Fall of Constantinople by the Turks * Secularization of science, and an age of discovery, like the printer, the telescope, the microscope, etc. * The Protestant Reformation * The disastrous Thirty Years' War, * The Commercial Revolution * The Golden Age of Piracy. * The Spanish Monarchy, and the Golden Age * The European colonization of the Americas, * The Bourbon Heritage in Spain Monarchy until now. * Reinansence, Baroque, and Neoclassical constructions and art periods. * The French Revolution * The War of 1812
Historians typically date the end of the early modern period when the French Revolution of the 1790s