Kingdom of Great Britain
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| Motto Dieu et mon droit (French: "God and my right")1 |
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| Anthem God Save the King/Queen |
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 Territory of the Kingdom of Great Britain
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| Capital | London | |||||||||||
| Languages | English (throughout) Welsh (Wales) Scots (Scotland) Scottish Gaelic (Scotland) |
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| Government | Constitutional monarchy | |||||||||||
| Monarch | ||||||||||||
| • | 1707–1714 | Anne | ||||||||||
| • | 1714–1727 | George I | ||||||||||
| • | 1727–1760 | George II | ||||||||||
| • | 1760–1801 | George III | ||||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||||
| • | 1721–1742 | Robert Walpole | ||||||||||
| • | 1783–1801 | William Pitt the Younger | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||||||||||
| • | Upper house | House of Lords | ||||||||||
| • | Lower house | House of Commons | ||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||
| • | 1707 Union | 1 May 1707 | ||||||||||
| • | 1801 Union | 31 December 1800 | ||||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||||
| • | 1801 | 230,977 km2 (89,181 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||||
| • | 1801 est. | 10,942,646 | ||||||||||
| Density | 47/km2 (123/sq mi) | |||||||||||
| Currency | Pound sterling | |||||||||||
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| 1 The Royal motto used in Scotland was [Nemo Me Impune Lacessit] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Latin for "No-one provokes me with impunity"). | ||||||||||||
The Kingdom of Great Britain, named in the Acts of Union 1707 as Great Britain and described as the "United Kingdom of Great Britain" and "One Kingdom",[1] was a state in the British Isles in Western Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800. It was created by joining the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, under the Acts of Union, to create a single kingdom that took in the whole of the island of Great Britain and many islands around it. A new single parliament and government, based in Westminster in London, controlled the new country. The two earlier kingdoms of Scotland and England had been in a personal union, sharing the same head of state since James VI, King of Scots, became King of England in 1603 following the death of Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1801, by the Act of Union 1800, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland were joined together into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the putting down of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Kings and queens[change | change source]
- Anne (1707–1714), previously Queen of England, Queen of Scotland, and Queen of Ireland since 1702.
- George I (1714–1727)
- George II (1727–1760)
- George III (1760–1801), continued as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1820.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Act of Union 1707, Article 2.
| Preceded by: Kingdom of England c 927–30 April 1707 Kingdom of Scotland c 843–30 April 1707 |
Kingdom of Great Britain 1 May 1707 – 31 December 1800 |
Succeeded by: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1 January 1801–5 December 1922 |
