State · 1516 – 1700
Habsburg Spain
A state of 1516 – 1700 — 184 years in Europe. 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
- 184 years
- 1516 – 1700
- Rulers
- 3
- the King of Aragon
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of King of Aragon.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles V | 1516 – 1556 | 40 years | ended otherwise, as coded — neither deposed nor a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Philip II of Spain | 1556 – — | no end recorded | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | child |
| Charles II of Spain | 1665 – 1700 | 35 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell |
3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1516 – 1700. Median reign 37.5 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”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedEscudo de Armas de Felipe II a Carlos II · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Miguillen 
flag, undatedEstandarte real de 1580-1668 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:
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 stood184 years
stood longer than 60% 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 median40 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 91% 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: 2 causes the record names and 0 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.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1498 – 1718, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1608, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q600093 (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.