State · 771 – 476 BCE

Spring and Autumn period

A state of 771 – 476 BCE — 295 years in East and Southeast Asia. Its line of rulers holds 13 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: 295 years; 771 BCE – 476 BCE
Rulers: 13; the Chinese king
Most ground: 1.01 million km²; in 750 BCE

Map: Spring and Autumn period in 750 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Spring and Autumn period in 750 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.01 million 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

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

Rulers

The line of Chinese king.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

13 terms are shared from [object Object].

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
King Ping of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	771 BCE – 720 BCE	51 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
King Huan of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	719 BCE – 697 BCE	22 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	grandchild
King Zhuang of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	696 BCE – 682 BCE	14 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Hui of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	676 BCE – 651 BCE	25 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	grandchild
King Xiang of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	652 BCE – 619 BCE	33 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Qing of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	618 BCE – 613 BCE	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Kuang of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	612 BCE – 607 BCE	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Ding of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	606 BCE – 586 BCE	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
King Jian of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	585 BCE – 572 BCE	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Ling of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	571 BCE – 545 BCE	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Jing of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	544 BCE – 520 BCE	24 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
King Dao of Zhou · from the line of Eastern Zhou	520 BCE – 520 BCE	under a year	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
King Jing of Zhou (Gai) · from the line of Eastern Zhou	519 BCE – 477 BCE	42 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

13 rulers, 13 with terms dated as terms, covering 771 BCE – 477 BCE. Median reign 22 years. 2 of 12 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.

1.01 million km² in 741 BCE, 898,200 km² in 481 BCE; at its largest 1.01 million km² in 741 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

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 stood295 years
stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,008,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 84% 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 median22 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 68% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record13
has more rulers on record than 85% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 801 BCE – 446 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 750 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q185047 (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.