State · 1428 – 1788

Lê dynasty

A state of 1428 – 1788 — 360 years in East and Southeast Asia. The atlas records 26 things within it — people 26. Its line of rulers holds 26 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: 360 years; 1428 – 1788
Rulers: 26; the emperor
Most ground: 191,000 km²; in 1475
Within it: 26; recorded rows

Map: Lê dynasty in 1475, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Lê dynasty in 1475, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 191,000 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.

Lê dynasty in 1475, 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.

Lê dynasty in 1540, last 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.

Where it sits in time

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

Rulers

The line of emperor.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Lê Lợi	1428 – 1433	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Lê Thái Tông	1433 – 1442	9 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Lê Nghi Dân	1459 – 1460	1 year	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Lê Thánh Tông	1460 – 1497	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Lê Hiến Tông	1497 – 1504	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Túc Tông	1504 – 1504	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Uy Mục	1504 – 1509	5 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Lê Tương Dực	1509 – 1516	7 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Lê Chiêu Tông	1516 – 1522	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Lê Cung Hoàng	1522 – 1527	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Lê Trang Tông	1533 – 1548	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Lê Trung Tông	1548 – 1556	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Anh Tông	1556 – 1573	17 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Lê Thế Tông	1573 – 1599	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Kính Tông	1599 – 1619	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Thần Tông	1619 – 1643	24 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Lê Chân Tông	1643 – 1649	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Thần Tông	1649 – 1662	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	parent
Lê Huyền Tông	1662 – 1671	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Lê Gia Tông	1671 – 1675	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Lê Hy Tông	1675 – 1705	30 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Lê Dụ Tông	1705 – 1729	24 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Lê Duy Phường	1729 – 1732	3 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Lê Thuần Tông	1732 – 1735	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Lê Ý Tông	1735 – 1740	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Lê Hiển Tông	1740 – 1786	46 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Lê Chiêu Thống	1786 – 1789	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	grandchild

26 rulers, 26 with terms dated as terms, covering 1428 – 1789. Median reign 7 years. 5 of 26 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.

152,000 km² in 1453, 135,800 km² in 1553; at its largest 191,000 km² in 1478. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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.

1400 – 14997 rows

Lê Thánh Tông · ruler · 1442 – 1497
Lê Thái Tông · ruler · 1423 – 1442
Lê Hiến Tông · ruler · 1461 – 1504
Lê Nghi Dân · ruler · 1439 – 1460
Lê Túc Tông · ruler · 1488 – 1504
Lê Uy Mục · ruler · 1488 – 1509
Lê Tương Dực · ruler · 1495 – 1516

1500 – 15997 rows

Lê Trang Tông · ruler · 1515 – 1548
Lê Chiêu Tông · ruler · 1506 – 1526
Lê Cung Hoàng · ruler · 1507 – 1527
Lê Kính Tông · ruler · 1588 – 1619
Lê Anh Tông · ruler · 1532 – 1573
Lê Trung Tông · ruler · 1535 – 1556
Lê Thế Tông · ruler · 1567 – 1599

1600 – 16997 rows

Lê Hy Tông · ruler · 1663 – 1716
Lê Thần Tông · ruler · 1607 – 1662
Lê Dụ Tông · ruler · 1679 – 1731
Lê Chân Tông · ruler · 1630 – 1649
Lê Huyền Tông · ruler · 1654 – 1671
Lê Gia Tông · ruler · 1661 – 1675
Lê Thuần Tông · ruler · 1699 – 1735

1700 – 17994 rows

Lê Chiêu Thống · ruler · 1765 – 1793
Lê Duy Phường · ruler · 1709 – 1735
Lê Hiển Tông · ruler · 1717 – 1786
Lê Ý Tông · ruler · 1719 – 1759

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 stood360 years
stood longer than 78% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held191,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 57% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
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 median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record26
has more rulers on record than 94% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1392 – 1824, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1475, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q10800789 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.