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George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 [a] – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760.
1683 in England. 1 language. ... 10 November – King George II of Great Britain (died 1760) 27 December – Conyers Middleton, minister (died 1750) Deaths
Son of George I and Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle: Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach Herrenhausen Gardens 22 August 1705 [b] 8 children until 20 November 1737 25 October 1760 Kensington Palace Aged 76 Son of George I George III [7] George William Frederick 25 October 1760 [h] – 29 January 1820 (59 years, 97 days) Until 1801: 1801 ...
King of England r. 1016–1035: Boite mac Cináeda d. ... George II 1683–1760 King of Great Britain r. 1727–1760: Frederick 1707–1751 Prince of Wales: George ...
George Augustus sailed to England in September 1714, and Caroline and two of her daughters followed in October. [28] Her journey across the North Sea from The Hague to Margate was the only sea voyage she took in her life. [29] Their young son, Prince Frederick, remained in Hanover for the rest of George I's reign, and was brought up by private ...
Prince George had known the Churchills for years: another brother Charles Churchill, had been one of his gentlemen of the bedchamber in Denmark, and Marlborough had accompanied George on his journey from Denmark to England for his marriage to Anne in 1683. [42] George's secretary in the 1680s was Colonel Edward Griffith, brother-in-law of the ...
George was born on 28 May 1660 in the city of Hanover in the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire. [b] He was the eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his wife, Sophia of the Palatinate. Sophia was the granddaughter of King James I of England, through her mother, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. [3]
William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683) was an English Country Party politician and nobleman. He was a leading member of the Country Party, forerunners of the Whigs, who during the reign of Charles II of England laid the groundwork for opposition in the English House of Commons to the accession of an openly Catholic monarch in Charles's brother James.