Timeline

As an ongoing effort to provide free online access to historical literature against cruelty to animals, our Animal Rights-Humane History Timeline will include not only the more noted events and activists in the history of animal rights, animal welfare and protection, but lesser known advocates against cruelty to animals as well. Please note that Animal Rights-Humane History is a work in progress and many individuals who spoke out against cruelty and for the rights of animals are not yet a part of this website. Please contact-us @AnimalRightsHub.com if you would like to become a contributing editor to Animal Rights History

「BCE-c485」

Antiquity

Mythical-Divine Origin; Remote-Classical Antiquity「BCE-CE」
Common Era Classical Antiquity; Early Church Fathers「CE-c485」

「c485-1450」

Medieval-Dark Ages

Middle Ages; Old-Middle English Literary Period

「1450-1660」

Renaissance

English Renaissance and Reformation

「1660-1785」

 Age of Enlightenment 

Enlightenment: Restoration 「1660-1689」
Augustan Literary Period-Age of Pope 「1689-1745」
Age of Sensibility-Age of Johnson 「1745-1785」

「1785-1837」

 Romantic Age

Romanticism; The Romantic Poets; Romantic Age

「1837-1901」

Victorian Age

Victorian Age; Beginnings of the Anti-Vivisection Movement

「1901-1945」

 20th Century-Modernism

Early-Mid 20th Century-Modernism