Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1420 – 1966

Buganda

A state of 1420 – 1966 — 546 years in sub-Saharan Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 1 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 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
546 years
1420 – 1966
Rulers
3
the Kabaka of Buganda
Within it
2
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Buganda: 1420 – 1966

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

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

Suna II of Buganda · 1832 – 1856 · no death date to read the end againstMuteesa I of Buganda · 1856 – 1884 · no death date to read the end againstMwanga II of Buganda · 1884 – 1888 · no death date to read the end against15001600170018001900
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Suna II of Buganda1832 – 185624 yearsending not on record
Muteesa I of Buganda1856 – 188428 yearsending not on recordchild
Mwanga II of Buganda1884 – 18884 yearsending not on recordchild

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1832 – 1888. Median reign 24 years. 0 of 2 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”.

Flag or arms

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

  • Flag of Buganda
    flag, undatedFlag of Buganda · 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.

1400 – 1499: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other14001500 – 1599: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other15001600 – 1699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other16001700 – 1799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other17001800 – 1899: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other18001900 – 1999: 1 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1800 – 18991 row

1900 – 19991 row · 1 wars and battles

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 stood546 years

    stood longer than 88% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median24 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 72% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record3

    has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q473748 (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.