State · 1356 – 1806
Electorate of Saxony
A state of 1356 – 1806 — 450 years in Europe. It followed Duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg. It was replaced by Kingdom of Saxony. The atlas records 18 things within it — wars and battles 4 · treaties 2 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 6 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
- 450 years
- 1356 – 1806
- Rulers
- 6
- the head of state
- Most ground
- 35,000 km²
- in 1636
- Within it
- 18
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
1363 · first mapped · 5,400 km²
1636 · at its largest · 35,000 km²
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 Saxe-Wittenberg · follows · 1296 – 1423
After it
- Kingdom of Saxony · replaced by · 1806 – 1918
Rulers
The line of head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rudolf I of Saxe-Wittenberg | 1356 – 1356 | under a year | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg | 1419 – 1422 | 3 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | grandchild |
| Frederick I | 1423 – 1428 | 5 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Frederick III of Saxony | 1486 – 1525 | 39 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony | 1763 – 1763 | under a year | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Frederick Augustus I of Saxony | 1763 – 1806 | 43 years | ending not on record | child |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1356 – 1806. Median reign 4 years. 0 of 5 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.
5,700 km² in 1381, 33,200 km² in 1781; at its largest 35,000 km² in 1656. 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 Electoral Saxony · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedBlason Jean-Georges IV de Saxe · CC BY 3.0
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 – 14991 row
- Frederick III of Saxony · ruler · 1463 – 1525
1500 – 15994 rows · 1 wars and battles
- John George I of Saxony · commander · 1585 – 1656
- Maurice, Elector of Saxony · commander · 1521 – 1553
- John Frederick I of Saxony · person · 1503 – 1554
- Battle of Mühlberg · battle · 1547
1600 – 16996 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · inventor · 1646 – 1716
- Battle of Breitenfeld · battle · 1631
- John George III of Saxony · ruler · 1647 – 1691
- Battle of Breitenfeld · battle · 1642
- Treaty of Dresden · treaty · 1699
- Battle of Jüterbog · battle · 1644
1700 – 17995 rows
- Novalis · inventor · 1772 – 1801
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · philosopher · 1729 – 1781
- Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony · ruler · 1722 – 1763
- Treaty of Hubertusburg · treaty · 1763
- Johann von Thielmann · commander · 1765 – 1824
1800 – 18992 rows
- John, King of Saxony · politician · 1801 – 1873
- Karl Rudolf Brommy · writer · 1804 – 1860
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 stood450 years
stood longer than 84% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held35,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 30% 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 median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% 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.
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, 1311 – 1851, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1636, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q156199 (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.