State · 1642 – 1975

Kingdom of Sikkim

A state of 1642 – 1975 — 333 years in South Asia. It was replaced by Sikkim. The atlas records 8 things within it — people 8. 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: 333 years; 1642 – 1975
Rulers: 9; the Chogyal
Within it: 8; recorded rows
Symbols: 3; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

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

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

Sikkim · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Chogyal.

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in office

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Phuntsog Namgyal	1642 – 1670	28 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Tensung Namgyal	1670 – 1700	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Chakdor Namgyal	1700 – 1717	17 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Gyurmed Namgyal	1717 – 1733	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Phuntsog Namgyal II	1733 – 1780	47 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Tenzing Namgyal	1780 – 1793	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Tshudpud Namgyal	1793 – 1863	70 years	abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Sidkeong Namgyal	1863 – 1874	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Thutob Namgyal	1874 – 1914	40 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1642 – 1914. Median reign 28 years. 0 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”.

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, undatedSeal of Sikkim color · Public domain
flag, 1877 – 1967Royal flag of Sikkim · Public domain
flag, 1967 – 1975Flag of Sikkim (1967-1975) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Unknown Unknown (flag design), first version of SVG file uploaded by Nichalp, subsequent…

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 – 16993 rows

Phuntsog Namgyal · ruler · 1604 – 1670
Tensung Namgyal · ruler · 1644 – 1700
Chakdor Namgyal · ruler · 1686 – 1717

1700 – 17993 rows

Phuntsog Namgyal II · ruler · 1733 – 1780
Tenzing Namgyal · ruler · 1769 – 1793
Gyurmed Namgyal · ruler · 1707 – 1733

1800 – 18992 rows

Thutob Namgyal · ruler · 1860 – 1914
Sidkeong Namgyal · ruler · 1819 – 1874

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 stood333 years
stood longer than 76% 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 median28 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 80% 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: 0 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, 1609 – 2008, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1809, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q3960459 (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.