State · 1692 – 1814

Electorate of Hanover

A state of 1692 – 1814 — 122 years in Europe. It followed Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It was replaced by Kingdom of Hanover. The atlas records 13 things within it — wars and battles 7 · treaties 1 · people 5. 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: 122 years; 1692 – 1814
Rulers: 3; the Prince-Elector
Most ground: 47,500 km²; in 1757
Within it: 13; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Electorate of Hanover in 1757, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Electorate of Hanover in 1757, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 47,500 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Electorate of Hanover in 1709, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Electorate of Hanover in 1757, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

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

Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg · follows · 1235 – 1806

After it

Kingdom of Hanover · replaced by · 1814 – 1866

Rulers

The line of Prince-Elector.

died in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
George I of Great Britain	1708 – 1727	19 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
George II of Great Britain	1727 – 1760	33 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
George III	1760 – 1806	46 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	grandchild

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1708 – 1806. Median reign 33 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”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

23,800 km² in 1712, 31,700 km² in 1802; at its largest 42,700 km² in 1762. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 Hanover (1692) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Oren neu dag
coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of George I Louis, Elector of Hanover (1708-1714) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sodacan

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 – 16991 row

George I of Great Britain · ruler · 1660 – 1727

1700 – 179912 rows · 7 wars and battles

William I, Elector of Hesse · ruler · 1743 – 1821
Julius Jacob von Haynau · commander · 1786 – 1853
Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel · person · 1720 – 1785
Battle of Hastenbeck · battle · 1757
Battle of Minden · battle · 1759
Battle of Warburg · battle · 1760
Battle of Villinghausen · battle · 1761
Battle of Lutterberg · battle · 1758

and 4 more in the atlas.

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 stood122 years
stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held47,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 34% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
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 median33 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 87% 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.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 15 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.

in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 122

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1680 – 1826, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1757, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q706018 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.