State · 1607 – 1783

British America

A state of 1607 – 1783 — 176 years in Europe. It replaced English overseas possessions. It was replaced by British North America. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 5. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 176 years; 1607 – 1783
Rulers: 2; the Monarch
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

English overseas possessions · replaces · 1580 – 1707

After it

British North America · replaced by

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
James VI and I	1607 – 1625	18 years	ending not on record
George III	1760 – 1783	23 years	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1607 – 1783. Median reign 20.5 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Great Britain (1707–1800) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Great Britain (1714–1801) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan
flag, undatedRed ensign of Great Britain (1707–1800, square canton) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1600 – 16992 rows

Augustine Washington · commander · 1694 – 1743
Lawrence Washington · politician · 1659 – 1698

1700 – 17994 rows · 1 wars and battles

Benjamin Franklin · politician · 1706 – 1790
Richard Henry Lee · politician · 1732 – 1794
Pontiac's War · war · 1763 – 1765
Lawrence Washington · commander · 1718 – 1752

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood176 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per century0.6
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median23 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 70% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1589 – 1801, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1695, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q258532 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.