Whenever I see someone refer to “Victorian era-” for places outside the UK I’m tempted to start saying shit like “Han Dynasty era Rome”, “Soviet era Australia” etc
This is an issue that really bothers me as a historian, so I curated this little list that, as far as I am aware, are the accurate names and dates for the different aesthetic movements/time periods in different countries
Dates: roughly 1837-1901 (The Reign of Queen Victoria)
Victorian Era (UK, Canada, Australia (British Empire))
Antebellum (America 1830-1864)/ Reconstruction (1865-1877)/ “The Guilded Age” (1877-1901)
Isabelino (Spain 1833-1868) /Alfonsino (1874-1885)
La Belle Epoque “The Golden Age” (France)
National Romatiska (Sweden 1880-1920)
Meiji Period (Japan)
Xianfang (China 1831-1861)/Tongzhi (1861-1875)/Guangxu (1875-1908)
Era Witorianska (Poland)
Tanzimat (Ottoman Empire)
Qajar (Iran)
Honestly I wish we would start doing this, at the very least in a tongue and cheek way, because it’s very easy to have a disjointed idea of history rather than remembering it all happened at the same time.