Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1654 – 1772

State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão

A state of 1654 – 1772 — 118 years in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced State of Maranhão. It was replaced by Kingdom of Brazil. Its line of rulers holds 2 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
118 years
1654 – 1772
Rulers
2
the Monarch
Symbols
2
on record, with years

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000State of Maranhão: 1621 – 1654State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão: 1654 – 1772

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

  • Kingdom of Brazil · replaced by

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Joseph I of Portugal · 1751 – 1772 · no death date to read the end againstJohn V of Portugal · 1751 – 1772 · no death date to read the end against166016801700172017401760
ending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Joseph I of Portugal1751 – 177221 yearsending not on record
John V of Portugal1751 – 177221 yearsending not on recordparent

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1751 – 1772. Only 21 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 1 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.

  • Flag of Portugal (1750) (variant)
    flag, undatedFlag of Portugal (1750) (variant) · Public domain
  • Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Portugal (1640-1910)
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of the Kingdom of Portugal (1640-1910) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Zulske heraldry

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 stood118 years

    stood longer than 50% 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.

  • Rulers on record2

    has more rulers on record than 34% 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.

State of Maranhão · Linked · 1621 – 1654State of MaranhãoState of Grão-Pará and Maranhão · 1654 – 1772State of Grão-Pará and MaranhãoKingdom of Brazil · Linked · 1815 – 1825Kingdom of Brazil1650170017501800
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 118

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q616965 (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.