State · 1839
Cherokee Nation
A state of 1839 in the Americas and Oceania. Its line of rulers holds 14 people, 2 with dated terms.
- Wikidata records no end for this state; the atlas ends it where the borders dataset last draws it, 1839.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Rulers
- 14
- the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Brown | 1839 – 1839 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| John Rogers | 1839 – 1840 | 1 year | ending not on record |
14 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1839 – 1840. Only 1 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). 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, from 1978Flag of the Cherokee Nation · Public domain
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.
- Rulers on record14
has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1829 – 1849, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1839, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q14708404 (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.