Each decade from 1850 to 1950 has its own article with entries for each year, and era names have short descriptions of the time span that they represent.
| 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s |
| Dàoguāng 道光 | Xiánfēng 咸豐 | Tóngzhì 同治 | Guāngxù 光緒 | Xuāntǒng 宣統 | Year of the Republic 民國 |
| Kaei 嘉永 | Ansei 安政 | Man'en 万延 | Bunkyū 文久 | Genji 元治 | Keiō 慶応 | Meiji 明治 | Taishō 大正 | Shōwa 昭和 |
| Yuánnián 元年 |
| Dàtóng 大同 | Kāngdé 康德 |
| Old Buddhist Calendar 舊佛歷 | Current Buddhist Calendar 佛歷 |