State · 1580 – 1707
English overseas possessions
A state of 1580 – 1707 — 127 years in Europe. It was replaced by British Empire and British America. The atlas records 29 things within it — wars and battles 20 · unrest and atrocity 3 · natural disasters 1 · people 5.
- Wikidata's English label: English overseas possession.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 127 years
- 1580 – 1707
- Most ground
- 227,700 km²
- in 1702
- Within it
- 29
- recorded rows
1609 · first mapped · 1,600 km²
1702 · at its largest · 227,700 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.
After it
- British America · replaced by · 1607 – 1783
- British Empire · replaced by · 1583 – 1997
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.
1,600 km² in 1610, 227,700 km² in 1707; at its largest 227,700 km² in 1707. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
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.
1600 – 169927 rows · 18 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Cotton Mather · philosopher · 1663 – 1728
- Indian massacre of 1622 · atrocity · 1622
- Metacomet · person · 1639 – 1676
- 1689 Boston revolt · unrest · 1689
- Increase Mather · philosopher · 1639 – 1723
- Benjamin Church · commander · 1639 – 1718
- Anglo-Powhatan Wars · war · 1609 – 1646
- William Phips · politician · 1651 – 1695
and 19 more in the atlas.
1700 – 17992 rows · 2 wars and battles
- Battle of Falmouth · battle · 1703
- Battle of Bonavista · battle · 1704
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 stood127 years
stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held227,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 61% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.8
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 4 results, 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.
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 127
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1567 – 1720, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1702, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q617219 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.