State · 1701 – 1918

Kingdom of Prussia

A state of 1701 – 1918 — 217 years in Europe. It replaced Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Hanover and Duchy of Prussia and 1 more and followed Duchy of Nassau, Duchy of Holstein and Swedish Pomerania and 6 more. It was replaced by Free State of Prussia and followed by German Confederation. The atlas records 160 things within it — wars and battles 31 · unrest and atrocity 3 · treaties 3 · people 122 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 9 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: 217 years; 1701 – 1918
Rulers: 9; the King of Prussia
Most ground: 344,400 km²; in 1806
Within it: 160; recorded rows
Symbols: 6; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of Prussia in 1806, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Prussia in 1806, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 344,400 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.

Kingdom of Prussia in 1702, first mapped — 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.

Kingdom of Prussia in 1806, at its largest — 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

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

Holy Roman Empire · replaces · 962 – 1806
Duchy of Prussia · replaces · 1525 – 1618
Brandenburg–Prussia · replaces · 1618 – 1701
Kingdom of Hanover · replaces · 1814 – 1866
Duchy of Schleswig · follows
Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg · follows · 1296 – 1876
Electorate of Hesse · follows · 1814 – 1866
Royal Prussia · follows
Swedish Pomerania · follows · 1648 – 1815
Duchy of Holstein · follows · 1474 – 1867
Free City of Frankfurt · follows · 1372 – 1866
Duchy of Nassau · follows · 1806 – 1866
Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic) · follows · 1807 – 1814

After it

Free State of Prussia · replaced by
German Confederation · followed by · 1815 – 1866

Rulers

The line of King of Prussia.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Frederick I of Prussia	1701 – 1713	12 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell
Frederick William I of Prussia	1713 – 1740	27 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Frederick the Great	1740 – 1786	46 years	died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell	child
Frederick William II of Prussia	1786 – 1797	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	nephew or niece
Frederick William III	1797 – 1840	43 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Frederick William IV	1840 – 1861	21 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Wilhelm I	1861 – 1888	27 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Frederick III, German Emperor	1888 – 1888	under a year	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Wilhelm II	1888 – 1918	30 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child

9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1701 – 1918. Median reign 27 years. 1 of 8 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.

123,100 km² in 1711, 800 km² in 1841; at its largest 311,400 km² in 1801. 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.

coat of arms, undatedMiddle Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia 1873 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Glasshouse using elements from Sodacan
coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia 1873-1918 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Glasshouse , using elements by Sodacan, Katepanomegas and Regicollis
flag, 1701 – 1750Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1750) · Attribution · Drawing created by David Liuzzo
flag, 1750 – 1801Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1750-1801) · Attribution · Drawing created by David Liuzzo
flag, 1803 – 1892Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1803-1892) · Attribution · Drawing created by David Liuzzo
flag, 1892 – 1918Flag of Prussia (1892-1918) · Attribution · Drawing created by David Liuzzo

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.

1700 – 179983 rows · 24 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Immanuel Kant · scientist · 1724 – 1804
Arthur Schopenhauer · philosopher · 1788 – 1860
Alexander von Humboldt · explorer · 1769 – 1859
Frederick the Great · ruler · 1712 – 1786
Carl von Clausewitz · philosopher · 1780 – 1831
Johann Gottfried Herder · philosopher · 1744 – 1803
Wilhelm von Humboldt · scientist · 1767 – 1835
E. T. A. Hoffmann · artist · 1776 – 1822

and 75 more in the atlas.

1800 – 189973 rows · 7 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

Karl Marx · politician · 1818 – 1883
Friedrich Nietzsche · philosopher · 1844 – 1900
Friedrich Engels · politician · 1820 – 1895
Max Weber · philosopher · 1864 – 1920
David Hilbert · scientist · 1862 – 1943
Wilhelm Röntgen · inventor · 1845 – 1923
Konrad Adenauer · politician · 1876 – 1967
Wilhelm II · ruler · 1859 – 1941

and 65 more in the atlas.

1900 – 19992 rows

Henning von Tresckow · commander · 1901 – 1944
Rudolf Lange · commander · 1910 – 1945

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 stood217 years
stood longer than 65% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held344,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 68% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.5
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median27 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 78% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 117 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.

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, 1679 – 1940, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1806, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q27306 (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.