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Aug 1, 1714 |
Queen Anne Stuart dies; George I Hanover becomes king. |
*House of Stuart
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
June 11, 1727 |
George I dies; George II Hanover becomes king. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
1736 |
Frederick, Prince of Wales, sets up a rival Court at Leicester House, a social center for the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
1742 |
England goes to war with Spain, incited by
William Pitt the Elder for the sake of trade. Sir Robert Walpole resigns. Continental War under Carteret: Pitt denounces Carteret's policy as "a
wild waste of England's resources for the despicable [Hanover] electorate." |
*Spain
*Economics
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Oct 25, 1760 |
George II dies; George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
1763 |
City merchants angry at George III: "the day of the bourgeois radical dawned." |
*Economics
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
1788 |
King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis: Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack the ministry of William Pitt the Younger by trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales. |
*The Regency Crisis
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Feb 1788 |
King George III recovers from madness, leaving Pitt's ministry safe. |
*The Regency Crisis
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
May 21, 1792 |
George III issues a Royal Proclamation vs. seditious writings: The Rights Of Man banned; Paine charged with sedition. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
1810 |
George III recognized as insane. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Feb 5, 1811 |
Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Jan 29, 1820 |
Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Aug 17, 1820 |
The Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so that George IV can divorce her begins. George tries to divorce her by securing a Bill of Pains and Penalities; the queen is virtually acquitted because the bill is passed by such a small majority of Lords. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
June 26, 1830 |
George IV dies; his brother, William IV, accedes to the throne. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
June 20, 1837 |
William IV dies; Victoria accedes to the throne. Later she receives two death threats. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Nov 1837 |
Victoria's progress to the Guild Hall. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
Nov 23, 1839 |
Queen Victoria announces her engagement to Prince Albert. |
*House of Hanover |
| Details |
1840 |
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert. |
*House of Hanover |