PastlasHistorical atlas

Century · 1801 – 1900

The world in the 19th century

From 1801 to 1900 the atlas holds 931 states standing at some time, 376 of them founded in it - Mexico and Canada the best known - and 484 ending in it. 2,068 wars, risings, treaties, discoveries and other events began - American Civil War, Crimean War and Napoleonic Wars the best known of the events; 5,353 people were born.

A century here is counted as Wikidata counts it, 1801 to 1900, and holds every row that began in it, however coarsely dated.

What began in the 19th century

By decade first - wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey - then by kind, the best known first.

1801: 230 began — 165 wars and battles, 21 risings, regime changes and massacres, 44 other18011811: 210 began — 142 wars and battles, 22 risings, regime changes and massacres, 46 other18111821: 118 began — 60 wars and battles, 15 risings, regime changes and massacres, 43 other18211831: 121 began — 55 wars and battles, 26 risings, regime changes and massacres, 40 other18311841: 157 began — 68 wars and battles, 37 risings, regime changes and massacres, 52 other18411851: 188 began — 73 wars and battles, 23 risings, regime changes and massacres, 92 other18511861: 372 began — 252 wars and battles, 23 risings, regime changes and massacres, 97 other18611871: 232 began — 71 wars and battles, 24 risings, regime changes and massacres, 137 other18711881: 180 began — 39 wars and battles, 18 risings, regime changes and massacres, 123 other18811891: 260 began — 94 wars and battles, 26 risings, regime changes and massacres, 140 other1891

Wars and battles 1,019

and 1,011 more in the atlas.

Regime change 23

and 15 more in the atlas.

Unrest and atrocity 212

and 204 more in the atlas.

Famine and plague 20

and 12 more in the atlas.

Natural disasters 26

and 18 more in the atlas.

Treaties 200

and 192 more in the atlas.

Works and ideas 568

and 560 more in the atlas.

States founded and fallen

Founded 376

and 362 more in the atlas.

Ended 484

and 470 more in the atlas.

Born in the 19th century

The best known first, by how many Wikipedias write about them.

and 5,329 more in the atlas.

States of the 19th century

Every state that stood at some time in the 19th century, by region, the best known first.

Europe: 293 statesEurope293Middle East and North Africa: 107 statesMiddle East and North Africa107Sub-Saharan Africa: 78 statesSub-Saharan Africa78South Asia: 184 statesSouth Asia184East and Southeast Asia: 99 statesEast and Southeast Asia99Americas and Oceania: 127 statesAmericas and Oceania127Location unknown: 43 statesLocation unknown43

Europe293 states

and 281 more; every state of Europe.

Middle East and North Africa107 states

and 95 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.

Sub-Saharan Africa78 states

and 66 more; every state of Sub-Saharan Africa.

South Asia184 states

and 172 more; every state of South Asia.

East and Southeast Asia99 states

and 87 more; every state of East and Southeast Asia.

Americas and Oceania127 states

and 115 more; every state of Americas and Oceania.

Location unknown43 states

and 31 more; every state of Location unknown.

Its decades and years

The decades and years with a page of their own.

Open in the atlas

  • On the timeline, 1800 – 1900: every state, war and life of the 19th century, region by region.
  • On the map in 1850: the borders of the year, its cities under their names of the year, and what happened where.

Wikidata (CC0) · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.