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The Americas in 1763

1763 is the end of the Seven Years' War. This map shows the 8 states and peoples the data has for The Americas in that year.

Map of the Americas in 1763 with 8 states and peoples
Borders: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coarse outlines: check and adjust them for your story.

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States and peoples in the Americas in 1763

Largest first, by area on this map.

  • Spanish Empire
  • Portuguese Empire
  • British Colonial Empire
  • Jesuit Reducciones
  • Greenland
  • New France
  • Haudenosaunee
  • New Netherland

Gone from the map by 1788

Jesuit Reducciones · Haudenosaunee

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The Americas in other years

Other regions in 1763

The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.