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George III of Great Britain
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom. He was concurrently duke and prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the first monarch of the House of Hanover who was born in Great Bri…
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politics · King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 · art collector · patron of the arts · ruler · politician · aristocrat · monarch · also George III of Great Britain, George III, George III of the United Kingdom, George William Frederick, George William Frederick Hanover, George Hanover
Born 24 May 1738 · Died 29 January 1820 · Q127318
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2026· 10 entries
Evesham Journal: Author to discuss novel about alleged secret son of King George III at literary lunch
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Santa Fe New Mexican: A royal burn: Zozobra, dressed as King George III, will go up in flames Friday
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ETV Bharat: Echoes Of 1812 US-Britain War In Trump’s Canada Tariff Tantrum
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“denouncing all of the arguments for slavery, and calling them an execration and ridiculous and”
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“We are here in daily expectation that Bonaparte will attempt his threatened invasion ... Should his troops effect a landing, I shall certainly put myself at the head of mine, and my other armed subjects, to repel them.”
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“most serious crisis the nation ever knew”
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“and consequently must often act contrary to my passions.”
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Artnet: George III, King of England, in general officer's uniform, the Star of Garter on his breast, a black bicorn hat on his head
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British Heritage Travel: All the white horses - the history of Britain's chalk hillsides
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2005· 1 entry
Revealed high levels of arsenic, a cause of metabolic blood disorders and thus a possible trigger for porphyria
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1995· 1 entry
“Said ca. 1772, speaking to John Harrison's son William. Quoted in Dava Sobel, "Longitude" (1995, Fourth Estate Limited. London. Printed 1998. ISBN 1-85702-571-7), p. 147”
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1972· 13 entries
“Essay (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 108”
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“Essay (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 109”
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“Essay on Francis I of France written under the tutorship of the Earl of Bute (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 108”
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“Apologia for his political conduct (c. 1766), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 159”
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“Apologia for his political conduct (c. 1766), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 158”
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“Letter to the Earl of Bute (6 January 1762), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), pp. 162-163”
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“Essay on the British political system (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), pp. 121-122”
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“Letter (after 11 August 1758), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 121”
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“Letter (11 August 1758), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 121”
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“Essay (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 111”
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“Essay (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), pp. 110-111”
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“Essay on Charles I of England (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 110”
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“Essay on Edward III of England (late 1750s), quoted in John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 110”
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1966· 2 entries
“A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition (23 August 1775), quoted in William Bell Clark (ed.), Naval Documents of the American Revolution, Volume 2 (1966), p. 685”
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A study by Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter suggested that the illness was physiological, caused by the blood disease porphyria
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1963· 1 entry
“Remarks to William Pitt (19 June 1765), quoted in Ronald Walter Harris, Political Ideas, 1760–1792 (1963), p. 33 and John Brooke, King George III (1972; 1974), p. 206”
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1939· 2 entries
“Letter to the Earl of Bute (November 1760), quoted in Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756–1766, ed. Romney Sedgwick (1939), p. 50”
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“Letter to the Earl of Bute (c. 1761–1762), quoted in Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756–1766, ed. Romney Sedgwick (1939), p. 77”
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1927· 1 entry
“Letter to Lord Sandwich (11 January 1776), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783, Volume III: July 1773–December 1777, ed. Sir John William Forstecue (1927), p. 331”
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1902· 1 entry
“Proclamation (10 December 1770), quoted in Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History: From 458 A.D. to 1902, Volume 8, p. 206”
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1867· 11 entries
“Letter to Lord North (18 August 1775), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 264”
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“Letter to Lord North (9 February 1778), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. II, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), pp. 153-154”
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“Letter to Lord North (31 January 1778), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. II, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 126”
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“Letter to Lord North (13 January 1778), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. II, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), pp. 118-119”
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“Letter to Lord North (10 September 1775), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), pp. 267-268”
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“Letter to Lord North on Frederick Montagu's Bill to repeal the annual observance of the execution of Charles I (2 March 1772), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 94”
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“Letter to Lord North (4 February 1774), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 164”
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“Letter to Lord North (11 September 1774), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 202”
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“Letter to Lord North (18 November 1774), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 215”
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“Letter to Lord North (15 February 1775), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 229”
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“Letter to Lord North (26 July 1775), quoted in The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, From 1768 to 1783, Vol. I, ed. W. Bodham Donne (1867), p. 255”
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1820· 10 entries
Died 1820-01-29.
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“Opis: przezwisko, jakie zyskał wskutek namiętnej pasji, jaką było… rolnictwo.”
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“The pride, the glory of Britain, and the direct end of its constitution, is political liberty.”
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“If vice and faction can be got the better of, this nation will again appear in her ancient lustre.”
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“We may therefore infer from this long reign that this people will never refuse anything to a sovereign who they know will be the defender of their liberties.”
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“[The military policy of Great Britain should be based on a navy] equal if not superior to those of all other powers together, which must preserve it from invasion.”
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“Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Britain.”
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“Attempting with vigour to restore religion and virtue when I mount the throne, this great country will probably regain her ancient state of lustre.”
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“[Freedom of speech] is not only the natural privilege of liberty but also its support and preservation, every man therefore here is allowed to declare his sentiments openly, to speak or write whatever is not prohibited by the laws.”
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“[Charles I] had too high a notion of the regal power and thought that every opposition to it was rebellion.”
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1816· 1 entry
After the Electorate of Hanover became a kingdom, the electoral bonnet was changed to a crown
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1814· 1 entry
Career landmark: King of Hanover (1814–1820).
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1810· 1 entry
George suffered a final relapse, and his eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, was named Prince Regent the following year
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1807· 1 entry
The transatlantic slave trade was banned from the British Empire
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1806· 1 entry
Reopening the question of who should serve in the ministry
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1804· 1 entry
George's recurrent illness returned; after his recovery, Addington resigned and Pitt regained power
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1803· 1 entry
But public opinion distrusted Addington to lead the nation in war, and instead favoured Pitt
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1801· 3 entries
Career landmark: monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1820).
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And 1804, followed by permanent illness from 1810 onward
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When Great Britain united with Ireland, he dropped the title of King of France, which had been used for every English monarch since Edward III's claim to the French throne in the medieval period
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1800· 3 entries
The royal arms were amended, dropping the French quartering
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Merged Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom
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The British and Irish parliaments passed an Act of Union that took effect on 1 January 1801 and united Great Britain and Ireland into a single state, known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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1760· 4 entries
Career landmark: Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1760–1814).
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Career landmark: Prince-Elector (1760–1806).
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Career landmark: King of Ireland (1760–1801).
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Career landmark: Monarch of Great Britain (1760–1801).
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1751· 2 entries
Career landmark: Duke of Edinburgh (1751–1760).
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Career landmark: heir apparent (1751–1760).
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1749· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Garter (1749).
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1738· 1 entry
Born 1738-05-24.
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