State · 1526 – 1867

Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)

A state of 1526 – 1867 — 341 years in Europe. It followed Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526). It was replaced by Austria-Hungary, Hungarian State and Kingdom of Hungary and followed by Austrian Empire. Its line of rulers holds 17 people.

Wikidata's English label: Kingdom of Hungary.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 341 years; 1526 – 1867
Rulers: 17; the Apostolic King
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

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

Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526) · follows · 1301 – 1526

After it

Austrian Empire · followed by · 1804 – 1867
Hungarian State · replaced by · 1849
Kingdom of Hungary · replaced by
Austria-Hungary · replaced by · 1867 – 1918

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

17 terms are shared from [object Object].

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor	1526 – 1564	38 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1564 – 1576	12 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1576 – 1608	32 years	deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1608 – 1619	11 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	sibling
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1619 – 1637	18 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Gabriel Bethlen · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1620 – 1621	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1637 – 1657	20 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1647 – 1654	7 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1657 – 1705	48 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	sibling
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1705 – 1711	6 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1711 – 1740	29 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	sibling
Maria Theresa · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1740 – 1780	40 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1780 – 1790	10 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1790 – 1792	2 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1792 – 1835	43 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ferdinand I of Austria · from the line of Austria-Hungary	1835 – 1848	13 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Franz Joseph I	1848 – 1916	68 years	ending not on record	nephew or niece

17 rulers, 17 with terms dated as terms, covering 1526 – 1916. Median reign 18 years. 3 of 16 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”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCoa Hungary Country History (19th Century) · Public domain

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 stood341 years
stood longer than 77% 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 median18 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 56% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record17
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 5 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.

linked

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, 1492 – 1901, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1697, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q253094 (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.