State · 1861 – 1865
Union
A state of 1861 – 1865 — 4 years in the Americas and Oceania. 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
- 4 years
- 1861 – 1865
- Rulers
- 2
- the President
- Symbols
- 5
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | 1861 – 1865 | 4 years | ending not on record | |
| Andrew Johnson | 1865 – 1865 | under a year | ending not on record |
2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1861 – 1865. Only 4 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 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”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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coat of arms, undatedGreat Seal of the United States of America (1782) · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the United States of America · Public domain 
coat of arms, undated1841USGreatSealDie · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_United_States_(1863%E2%80%931865).svg.png)
flag, undatedFlag of the United States (1863–1865) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_United_States_(1861%E2%80%931863).svg.png)
flag, 1861 – 1863Flag of the United States (1861–1863) · Public domain
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 stood4 years
stood longer than 12% 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 0 results, 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.
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
- On the timeline, 1851 – 1875, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1863, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q214102 (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.