Editing 2nd millennium (section)

===Modern history===
{{main|Modern history}}
{{further|Timeline of the 19th century|Timeline of the 20th century|World Wars}}
{{further|List of political entities in the 19th century|List of sovereign states in the 1900s|List of sovereign states in the 1950s|List of sovereign states in the 1990s}}

====Europe====
* [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] (1801–1922)
* [[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|British rule in Ireland]] (1801–1922)
* [[French First Empire]] (1804–1814; 1815)  
* [[Russian Empire]] (1721–1917)
* [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (1867–1918)
* [[Kingdom of Italy]] (1861–1946)
* [[French Second Empire]] (1852–1870)
* [[German Empire]] (1871–1918)
* [[French Third Republic]] (1870–1940)
* [[Fascist Italy]] (1922–1943)
* [[Nazi Germany]] (1933–1945)
* [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] (since 1922)
* [[Soviet Union]] (1922–1991)
* [[East Germany]] (1949–1990)
* [[West Germany]] (1949–1990)
* [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] (since 1990)

====Asia====
* [[Thailand|Kingdom of Thailand]] (since 1939)
* [[Singapore|Republic of Singapore]] (since 1965)
* [[Qing dynasty]] (1644–1912)
* [[1984 in North Korea|Democratic People's Republic of Korea]] (from 1948)
* [[South Korea|Republic of Korea]] (since 1948)
* [[Qajar dynasty]] (1794–1925)
* [[British Hong Kong]] (1841–1997)
* [[British Raj]] (1858–1947)
* [[Empire of Japan]]  (1868–1947)
* [[Democratic Kampuchea]] (1975–1982)
* [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] (1912–1949)
* [[People's Republic of China]] (from 1949)
* [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]] (from 1976)
* [[Partition of India]] (1947)
*[[Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire]] (1828–1908)
*[[Russian conquest of Central Asia]] (1839–1895)
*[[First Philippine Republic]] (1898–1901)

====Middle East====
* [[Ba'athist Syria|Syria]]
* [[United Arab Emirates]] (since 1971)
* [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]

====Africa====
{{further|History of Africa}}
*[[European exploration of Africa]]
*[[Scramble for Africa]]
*[[History of Egypt under the British|Egypt]]
*[[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] 
*[[Union of South Africa]]
*[[French Algeria]]
*[[French West Africa]]
*[[French Equatorial Africa]]
*[[French Madagascar]] 
*[[Portuguese Angola]]
*[[German South West Africa]]
*[[Belgian Congo]]
*[[Italian Libya]]
*[[Italian East Africa]]
*[[Spanish Guinea]]
*[[Decolonisation of Africa|Decolonisation]]
*[[List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa]]

====Americas====
* [[United States|United States of America]] (from 1776)
* [[First Empire of Haiti|Empire of Haiti]] (1804–1806)
* [[First Mexican Empire|Mexican Empire]] (1821–1823)
* [[Empire of Brazil]] (1822–1889)
* [[Federal Republic of Central America]] (1823–1841)
* [[Gran Colombia]] (1819–1831)
* [[Canadian Confederation]] (1867)
{{further|United Nations geoscheme for the Americas|South_America#Countries_and_territories|Northern_America#Countries_and_dependent_territories}}