Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1001 – 1780

House of Habsburg

A state of 1001 – 1780 — 779 years in Europe. The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 14 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
779 years
1001 – 1780
Rulers
14
the Apostolic King of Hungary
Most ground
559,900 km²
in 1453
Within it
15
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: House of Habsburg in 1453, its borders in gold among its neighbours
House of Habsburg in 1453, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 559,900 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.
House of Habsburg in 1260, first mapped

1260 · first mapped · 2,700 km²

House of Habsburg in 1453, at its largest

1453 · at its largest · 559,900 km²

House of Habsburg in 1512, last mapped

1512 · last mapped · 174,200 km²

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000House of Habsburg: 1001 – 1780

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of Apostolic King of Hungary.

Albert II of Germany · 1437 – 1439 · died in office of natural causesLadislaus the Posthumous · 1440 – 1457 · died in office of natural causesFrederick III, Holy Roman Emperor · 1458 – 1463 · left office aliveFerdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor · 1526 – 1564 · died in office, manner not recordedMaximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor · 1564 – 1576 · died in office, manner not recordedRudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor · 1576 – 1608 · resignedMatthias, Holy Roman Emperor · 1608 – 1619 · died in office, manner not recordedFerdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor · 1619 – 1637 · died in office, manner not recordedFerdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor · 1637 – 1657 · died in office, manner not recordedFerdinand IV, King of the Romans · 1647 – 1654 · died in office of natural causesLeopold I, Holy Roman Emperor · 1657 – 1705 · died in office, manner not recordedJoseph I, Holy Roman Emperor · 1705 – 1711 · died in office of natural causesCharles VI, Holy Roman Emperor · 1711 – 1740 · died by accidentMaria Theresa · 1740 – 1780 · died in office of natural causes120014001600
died in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Albert II of Germany1437 – 14392 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Ladislaus the Posthumous1440 – 145717 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor1458 – 14635 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor1526 – 156438 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor1564 – 157612 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor1576 – 160832 yearsresignedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor1608 – 161911 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the termsibling
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor1619 – 163718 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor1637 – 165720 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the termchild
Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans1647 – 16547 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor1657 – 170548 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the termsibling
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor1705 – 17116 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor1711 – 174029 yearsdied by accidentWikidata's manner of deathsibling
Maria Theresa1740 – 178040 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild

14 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1437 – 1780. Median reign 17.5 years. 1 of 13 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.

13001350140014501500

9,300 km² in 1276, 100,200 km² in 1501; at its largest 431,100 km² in 1451. 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.

  • Habspurg-Wappen ZWB
    coat of arms, undatedHabspurg-Wappen ZWB · Public domain
  • COA Habsburg early crest
    coat of arms, undatedCOA Habsburg early crest · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wereszczyński

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.

1000 – 1099: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other10001100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other13001400 – 1499: 7 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 1 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other14001500 – 1599: 3 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 3 other15001600 – 1699: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other16001700 – 1799: 1 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other1700

1300 – 13993 rows

1400 – 14997 rows · 4 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

1500 – 15993 rows

1600 – 16991 row

1700 – 17991 row

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 stood779 years

    stood longer than 94% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held559,900 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 76% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century0.1

    had more wars on record per century than 89% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median18 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record14

    has more rulers on record than 87% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q65968 (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.