State · 1717 – 1880
Nawabs of Bengal
A state of 1717 – 1880 — 163 years in South Asia. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · unrest and atrocity 1 · people 1.
- Wikidata's English label: Nawab of Bengal.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 163 years
- 1717 – 1880
- Most ground
- 385,700 km²
- in 1744
- Within it
- 3
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
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.
385,400 km² in 1727, 381,900 km² in 1757; at its largest 385,700 km² in 1747. 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.
1700 – 17993 rows · 1 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Battle of Plassey · battle · 1757
- Siraj-ud-Daulah · ruler · 1733 – 1757
- Black Hole of Calcutta · atrocity · 1756
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 stood163 years
stood longer than 57% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held385,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 70% 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.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1701 – 1896, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1744, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2637089 (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.