Timeline - Georgians

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1714: Upon the death of his second cousin Queen Anne, George Louis, Elector of Hannover succeeds as the new King, George I, of Great Britain and Ireland, the former of which had itself been established in 1706. This is the beginning of the House of Hanover's reign over the British Crown.

1715: The Whig Party wins the British Parliamentary Election for the House of Commons. This was the party that was in general opposition of the policies of the King.

1727: George I dies and his son George, Prince of Wales ascends to the throne as George II

1760: George II dies, and his grandson George, Prince of Wales ascends to the throne as George III, since his father, Frederick, Prince of Wales, had died in March 1751.

1763: Britain is victorious in the Seven Years War. The Treaty of Paris of 1763 grants Britain domain over vast new territories around the world.

1765: The Stamp Act is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, causing much unrest in the Thirteen Colonies in North America.

1775: The War of Independence begins in the Thirteen Colonies, specifically in Massachusetts.

1776: The Thirteen Colonies in North America declare their independence from the British Crown and British Parliament.

1781: The British Army in America under Lord Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington after its defeat in Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781.

1783: British formally recognizes the independence of the original 13 American States when the Treaty of Paris of 1783 is signed by David Hartley, representing George III, and by the American treaty delegation.

1801: The Act of Union 1800 comes into effect on 1 January, uniting the Kingdoms of Great Britain and of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

1811: George, Prince of Wales begins his nine-year period as the regent (he became known as George, Prince Regent) for George III, who has become delusional. This sub-period of the Georgia Era is defined as the regency period.

1815: Napoleon I of France is defeated by the Seventh Coalition under The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, in what is now Flanders, Belgium.

1820: George III dies, and his son George, Prince Regent ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as George IV.

1830: George IV dies. According to some authorities, this is the end of the Georgian era of the House of Hannover. However, many other authorities continue this Era during the relatively-short reign of his brother, The Prince William, Duke of Clarence, who became William IV.

1833: Slavery Abolition Act is passed by Parliament through the influence of William Wilberforce and the Evangelical movement, thus criminalizing the African Slave trade and all its cruelties and abominations within the British Empire.

1837: William IV dies, ending the Georgian Era, and is succeeded by his niece, Queen Victoria, the last member of the House of Hanover. She married Prince Albert, who was of theHouse of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and so, when their son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales succeeded as Edward VII, that House gained the British throne.

Alexander Pope - Rape of the Lock 1712

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe - 1719

Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders - 1722

Daniel Defoe - Roxana 1724

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - 1726

Samuel Richardson - Pamela - 1740

Henry Fielding - Shamela 1742

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa - 1748

Henry Fielding - Tom Jones 1749

Laurence Sterne - Tristam Shandy - 1767

Francis Burney - Evelina - 1778

Francis Burney - Camilla - 1796

Tracy Chevalier - Burning Bright -

Georgette Heyer

Philipa Gregory

Emma Donoghue - Life Mask / Slammerkin

Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy and Waverley

Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor 1993/ Lambs of London 2004

Beryl Bainbridge - According to Queeney - 2000

John Buchan - A Lost Lady of Old Years / Midwinter

Madness of King George

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