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Timeline of empires
The chart below shows a timeline of polities that have been called empires. Dynastic changes are marked with a white line.
- The Roman Empire's timeline listed below only includes the Western portion. The Byzantine continuation of the Roman Empire is listed separately.
- The Empires of Nicaea and Trebizond were Byzantine successor states.
- The Empire of Bronze Age Egypt is not included in the graph. Established by Narmer circa 3000 BC, it lasted as long as China until it was conquered by Persia in 525 BC.
- Japan is presented for the period of its overseas Empire (1895-1945). The original Japanese Empire of "the Eight Islands" would be third persistent after Egypt and China.
<timeline> ImageSize = width:1000 height:550 PlotArea = width:850 height:450 left:50 bottom:50
DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:-336 till:2009 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:100 start:-300
- there is no automatic collision detection,
- so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap
Colors=
id:red value:red
Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar Define $dy = -5 # adjust height
PlotData=
bar:Alexandrian color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7 from:-336 till:-323 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Mauryan color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7 from:-321 till:-185 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar: China color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize: 7 from:-221 till: 1911 shift:($dx,-2) color: red at:206 mark:(line,white) at:220 mark:(line,white) at:265 mark:(line,white) at:280 mark:(line,white) at:420 mark:(line,white) at:589 mark:(line,white) at:618 mark:(line,white) at:907 mark:(line,white) at:960 mark:(line,white) at:907 mark:(line,white) at:1125 mark:(line,white) at:1279 mark:(line,white) at:1271 mark:(line,white) at:1368 mark:(line,white) at:1644 mark:(line,white)
bar:Japan color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1871 till:1945 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Roman color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:-27 till:476 shift:($dx,-2) color:red at:68 mark:(line,white) at:69 mark:(line,white) at:96 mark:(line,white) at:192 mark:(line,white) at:235 mark:(line,white) at:284 mark:(line,white) at:364 mark:(line,white) at:392 mark:(line,white) at:455 mark:(line,white)
bar:Byzantine color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:306 till:1204 shift:($dx,-2) color:red at:363 mark:(line,white) at:364 mark:(line,white) at:457 mark:(line,white) at:518 mark:(line,white) at:602 mark:(line,white) at:610 mark:(line,white) at:711 mark:(line,white) at:717 mark:(line,white) at:803 mark:(line,white) at:813 mark:(line,white) at:820 mark:(line,white) at:867 mark:(line,white) at:1056 mark:(line,white) at:1057 mark:(line,white) at:1059 mark:(line,white) at:1081 mark:(line,white) at:1185 mark:(line,white) from:1261 till:1453 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red
bar:Bulgarian color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:913 till:1018 shift:($dx,-2) color:red at:997 mark:(line,white) at:1280 mark:(line,white) at:1292 mark:(line,white) at:1299 mark:(line,white) at:1300 mark:(line,white) at:1323 mark:(line,white) from:1185 till:1422 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red
bar:Holy-RŠ¾man color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:962 till:1024 shift:($dx,-2) color:red from:1027 till:1125 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1133 till:1137 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1155 till:1197 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1209 till:1215 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1220 till:1250 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1312 till:1313 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1328 till:1347 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1355 till:1378 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1433 till:1437 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1452 till:1740 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red from:1742 till:1806 shift:($dx,$dy) color:red at:1745 mark:(line,white) at:1765 mark:(line,white)
bar:Nicaea color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1204 till:1261 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Latin color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1204 till:1261 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Trebizond color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1204 till:1461 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Ajuran color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1300 till:1700 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Ottoman color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1299 till:1922 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Spanish color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1402 till:1976 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Russian color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1480 till:1917 shift:($dx,-2) color:red at:1598 mark:(line,white) at:1605 mark:(line,white) at:1606 mark:(line,white) at:1610 mark:(line,white) at:1612 mark:(line,white)
bar:Swedish color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1611 till:1718 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar: Maratha color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7 from:1647 till:1818 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:French color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1804 till:1814 shift:($dx,-2) color:red at:1815 mark:(line,red) from:1852 till:1870 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:Austrian color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1804 till:1918 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:German color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1871 till:1918 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
bar:British color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1677 till:1998 shift:($dx,-2) color:red at:1677 mark:(line,white) at:1998 mark:(line,white)
bar:Brazilian color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7
from:1822 till:1889 shift:($dx,-2) color:red
</timeline>
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