Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1854 – 1902

Orange Free State

A state of 1854 – 1902 — 48 years in sub-Saharan Africa. It replaced Orange River Sovereignty. It was replaced by Orange River Colony. The atlas records 13 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 10. Its line of rulers holds 8 people, 2 with dated terms. Its own article says it was conquered.

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

Stood
48 years
1854 – 1902
Rulers
8
the State President of the Orange Free State
Most ground
133,300 km²
in 1871
Within it
13
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years
Map: Orange Free State in 1871, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Orange Free State in 1871, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 133,300 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.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Orange River Sovereignty: 1848 – 1854Orange River Colony: 1902 – 1910Orange Free State: 1854 – 1902

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

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered, 1900. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Orange Free State was annexed as the Orange River Colony in 1900.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

The line of State President of the Orange Free State.

Jacobus Johannes Venter · 1855 – 1855 · left office aliveJacobus Nicolaas Boshoff · 1855 – 1859 · left office aliveJacobus Johannes Venter · 1863 – 1864 · left office alive18601870188018901900
left alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Jacobus Johannes Venter1855 – 1855under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff1855 – 18594 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Jacobus Johannes Venter1863 – 18641 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone

8 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1855 – 1864. Only 9 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). 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.

1860187018801890

133,100 km² in 1859, 132,400 km² in 1899; at its largest 133,300 km² in 1874. 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 of the Orange Free State
    coat of arms, from 1856Coat of arms of the Orange Free State · Public domain
  • Flag of the Orange Free State
    flag, from 1856Flag of the Orange Free State · Public domain

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.

1800 – 1899: 13 recorded — 3 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 10 other18001900 – 1999: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1900

1800 – 189913 rows · 3 wars and battles

and 5 more in the atlas.

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 stood48 years

    stood longer than 33% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held133,300 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 52% 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.

  • Rulers on record8

    has more rulers on record than 76% 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 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.

Orange River Sovereignty · Linked · 1848 – 1854Orange River SovereigntyOrange Free State · 1854 – 1902Orange Free StateOrange River Colony · Linked · 1902 – 1910Orange River Colony18401860188019001920
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

Wikidata Q218023 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.