{"slug": "george-i-of-great-britain", "label": "George I of Great Britain", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130805", "qid": "Q130805", "description": "King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727", "entries": 31, "years": 14, "span": [1660, 1727], "span_label": ["1660 CE", "1727 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 13}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "james-francis-edward-stuart", "label": "James Francis Edward Stuart", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "jacobitism", "label": "Jacobitism", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "anne-queen-of-great-britain", "label": "Anne, Queen of Great Britain", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "george-ii-of-great-britain", "label": "George II of Great Britain", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "hanover", "label": "Hanover", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "james-ii-of-england", "label": "James II of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "house-of-stuart", "label": "House of Stuart", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "george-frideric-handel", "label": "George Frideric Handel", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholic-church", "label": "Roman Catholic Church", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 28", "text": "28 May – King George I of Great Britain, in Hanover (died 1727)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354345496#Births", "title": "1660 in England", "revid": 1354345496, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "June 7", "text": "June 7 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#Births", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, sister of King George I of Great Britain (d. 1705)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989896#Births", "title": "1668", "revid": 1365989896, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1698, "year_label": "1698 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – George Louis becomes Elector of Hanover upon the death of his father, Ernest Augustus. Because the widow of Ernest Augustus, George's mother Sophia, was heiress presumptive as the cousin of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and Anne's closest eligible heir, George will become King of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370144847#January–March", "title": "1698", "revid": 1370144847, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1706, "year_label": "1706 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – The royal wedding of Prussia takes place in Berlin between the 18-year-old Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and his bride Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, the 19-year-old daughter of the future King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351890964#October–December", "title": "1706", "revid": 1351890964, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September", "text": "September – Composer George Frideric Handel re-locates to London with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964331#July–September", "title": "1712", "revid": 1367964331, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 1", "text": "1 August - George I of Great Britain becomes king, and soon replaces the Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, the Earl of Plymouth with his favoured candidate, the previous incumbent, the Earl of Cholmondeley. The first bishop he appoints is John Wynne, principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who becomes Bishop of St Asaph, but does not take up his new position until the following year, preferring the academic life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275839007#Events", "title": "1714 in Wales", "revid": 1275839007, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain and Ireland, on the death of Queen Anne. Anne's death brings an end to the reign of the House of Stuart, in that her half-brother James Francis Edward Stuart, the eldest son of James II of England, has been ineligible for the British throne based on the Act of Settlement 1701 had barred members of the Roman Catholic church from becoming monarchs. George of Hanover, as great-grandson of James I of England and a second cousin to Anne, is deemed the eldest living Protestant descendant of James I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#July–September", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 1", "text": "1 August – George I becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of Anne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386545#Events", "title": "1714 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386545, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – George Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, succeeds his distant relative Queen Anne as King George I of Great Britain. This event becomes the catalyst to the Jacobite risings. Jacobite supporters of James Stuart as heir to the throne began to organise after Queen Anne died, ending the blood line of House of Stuart and resulting in the succession of George of Hanover.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362263149#Events", "title": "1714 in Scotland", "revid": 1362263149, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 1", "text": "1 August – Hanoverian succession: George, elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain on the death at Kensington Palace following a stroke of his second cousin, Queen Anne, without surviving issue and the death on 28 May of the designated first heir Electress Sophia of Hanover.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301355538#Events", "title": "1714 in Great Britain", "revid": 1301355538, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 18", "text": "September 18 – George I, the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed Hannover and sailing from the Netherlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#July–September", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 20", "text": "October 20 – The coronation of George I of Great Britain and Ireland takes place in Westminster Abbey, a little less than three months after George became the new British monarch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#October–December", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1715, "year_label": "1715 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – The first major Jacobite rising in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain breaks out. The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart, and marches on Edinburgh. James, the son of the deposed King James VII, arrives from France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355668843#July–September", "title": "1715", "revid": 1355668843, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1715, "year_label": "1715 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 6", "text": "6 September – first of the major Jacobite risings in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain: The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart at Braemar and marches on Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362263139#Events", "title": "1715 in Scotland", "revid": 1362263139, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1715, "year_label": "1715 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 6", "text": "6 September – First of the major Jacobite risings in Scotland against the rule of King George I: The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart and marches on Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835745#Events", "title": "1715 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835745, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised at Woolwich, by Royal Warrant of King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#April–June", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, brings the Bangorian Controversy within the Church of England into the open by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King George I of Great Britain, on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text \"My kingdom is not of this world\" (John 18:36), concluding there is no Biblical justification for church government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366802832#January–March", "title": "1717", "revid": 1366802832, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 31", "text": "31 March – Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, extends the Bangorian Controversy by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King George on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text \"My kingdom is not of this world\" (John 18:36), concluding there is no Biblical justification for church government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245148#Events", "title": "1717 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245148, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 31", "text": "31 March - In the presence of King George I of Great Britain, Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, gives a sermon on \"The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ\", beginning the Bangorian Controversy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320379029#Events", "title": "1717 in Wales", "revid": 1320379029, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 17", "text": "17 July – George Frideric Handel's Water Music performed on a barge on the River Thames for King George I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245148#Events", "title": "1717 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245148, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – King George I of Great Britain issues the \"Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates in the West Indies\", an offer of amnesty to pirates, declaring that any pirates who surrender themselves to the government of Britain or one of its overseas territories, on or before September 5, 1718, \"shall have Our Gracious Pardon of and for his or their Piracy or Piracies\" committed before January 5, 1718. The amnesty is later extended to July 1, 1719.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366802832#July–September", "title": "1717", "revid": 1366802832, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 (November 29, O.S.) - King George I of Great Britain banishes his son and daughter-in-law, George, Prince of Wales and Caroline of Ansbach, from the royal household after the Prince threatens the King's personal assistant, the Duke of Newcastle, the royal Lord Chamberlain. The altercation takes place at the baptismal ceremony for the Prince's newborn son, George William.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366802832#October–December", "title": "1717", "revid": 1366802832, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1720, "year_label": "1720 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 10", "text": "10 February – Edmond Halley is appointed Astronomer Royal by George I", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245214#Events", "title": "1720 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245214, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – Francis Atterbury, Anglican Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, is arrested in his deanery and confined in the Tower of London for treason, accused of leading the Jacobite \"Atterbury Plot\" in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart with the aim of overthrowing the House of Hanover and King George I of Great Britain and restoring the House of Stuart by installing Prince James as \"King James III\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#July–September", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 18", "text": "18 May – the Order of the Bath is founded by King George I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245388#Events", "title": "1725 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245388, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 26", "text": "26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360134108#Events", "title": "1726 in Wales", "revid": 1360134108, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle, queen consort of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372345509#Deaths", "title": "1726", "revid": 1372345509, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 11", "text": "June 11 – George II becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of George I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386455#Events", "title": "1727 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386455, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 11", "text": "June 11 – King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360176234#Deaths", "title": "1727", "revid": 1360176234, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 22", "text": "22 June - On the death of his father, King George I of Great Britain, the Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360134716#Events", "title": "1727 in Wales", "revid": 1360134716, "section": "Events"}}]}