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The term Modern Times is used by historians to loosely describe the period of time immediately following what is known as the Early Modern Times. It is to be distinguished from the term of Modernity.
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The Early Modern Times lasted from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 18th century, circa 1450 (moveable type printing press etc) and 1492 (start of European Colonialism) to 1750 (the Enlightenment) and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.; Modern Times are generally regarded as the period from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century and continuing up to today. The documentation of this time period is often called Modern history.; Modernity, based on Modernism, explores the changes of society due to the industrial age.; Postmodernity, Postindustrialism are theories to apply the art movement term of postmodernism (below) to social and cultural history, or to refer to the change of the industrial society during the past fifty years when the industry was no longer the most predominant basis of economy and society; the prefix \"post-\" implies a reaction to modernity and in that sense does not cover all contemporary history.;

Modernity on the other hand, describes large-scale developments of society (including literature and philosophy). Modernism describes an art movement. Neither applies to political, social, or series of events since either the fin de siècle or World War I in a strict sense.

Terminology, Periodisation, and Early Modern

These terms are never to be used in strict terms, centuries are the most narrow time frame possible. In the English language, history was not a scientific subject until the Enlightenment (and the American and French Revolutions of that period, 1750-1800), so the \"Modern Age\" was their present time; that said, the term \"modern\" was coined shortly before 1585 to describe the beginning of a new era. For that reason, there is no distinction into Early and \"Late\", as in eg. in German, whose periodisation \"Ancient-Medieval-New\" was constructed after the millenarianist book on world history by Christoph Cellarius in 1707, and Hegel, who continued the tradition. There, it led to the, literally, \"Late Newer\" Times (Späte Neuzeit), which is essentially Modern Age. The term \"Early Modern\" was introduced in the English language during the Enlightenment to distinguish the time between what we call Middle Ages and time of the late Enlightenment (1800) (when the term Modern Ages was shaped in our contemporary form), a distinction that originated in the 1930s.

The similar terms Modern Period, ~ Age, or ~ Era, are also commonly (and synonymously) used. \"Modern Times\" and \"Early Modern Times\" refers to political or religious events like the English, the industrial, the American, and the French revolutions, while Modernity refers to the development of concepts like industrialisation and revolutions in the ways of thinking like individualism, democratic participation and nationalism. Still, both terms might often be used synonymously.

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