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George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) [a] was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727.
George was born on 24 December 1845 at his parents' residence the Yellow Palace, an 18th-century town house at 18 Amaliegade, next to the Amalienborg Palace complex in Copenhagen. He was the second son and third child of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel. [1]
In 1915, a commemorative marble bust of King George I was erected at the assassination site in Thessaloniki, [89] on a street now named Vasiléos Georgíou ("King George Street"). The bust, designed by sculptor Konstantinos Dimitriadis, is the oldest outdoor sculpture in the city. [90]
Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle (15 September 1666 – 13 November 1726) was the repudiated wife of future King George I of Great Britain.The union with George, her first cousin, was a marriage of state, arranged by her father George William, her father-in-law the Elector of Hanover, and her mother-in-law, Electress Sophia of Hanover, first cousin of King Charles II of England.
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
The 1717 proclamation as it appeared in The London Gazette. The Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates (also known simply as the Act of Grace, though not an Act of Parliament [1]) [a] was a royal proclamation issued by George I of Great Britain on 5 September 1717.
King George pulled away from his life during mental health episodes. King George struggled with an illness in 1788 that caused his behavior to spiral out of control, according to History. He ...
George was born in 998 or, according to a later version of the Georgian chronicles, 1002, to King Bagrat III, [1] who had already begun his work of unification of Georgian lands. From this, George is the adopted grandson of the great David III the Kuropalates , [ 2 ] true architect of Georgian unification, but also biologically of Gurgen of ...