United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state that existed from 1801 to 1922, uniting Great Britain and all of Ireland under a single constitutional monarchy and global imperial power.


Statements (54)
Predicate Object
instanceOf constitutional monarchy
former country
sovereign state
alsoKnownAs Britain
UK
United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)
anthem God Save the King
capital London
coatOfArms Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816)
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1816–1837)
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1837–1952)
continent Africa (colonial possessions)
Asia (colonial possessions)
Europe
North America (colonial possessions)
Oceania (colonial possessions)
countryNameInEnglish United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
currency Pound sterling
endTime 1922-12-06
event Acts of Union 1800
flagName Union Flag
followedBy Irish Free State
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
governmentForm unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
headOfGovernmentTitle Prime Minister
headOfStateTitle Monarch
includesTerritory Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
England
Great Britain
Ireland
Isle of Man (crown dependency)
Scotland
Wales
legalSystem common law
legislativeBody Parliament of the United Kingdom
lowerHouse House of Commons of the United Kingdom
officialLanguage English
participatedIn Crimean War
First World War
Napoleonic Wars
precededBy Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Ireland
reasonForEnd establishment of the Irish Free State
religion Anglicanism (state church in England)
Presbyterianism (established church in Scotland)
Roman Catholicism
shortName United Kingdom
startTime 1801-01-01
status global imperial power
great power
upperHouse House of Lords
wasPartOf British Empire

Referenced by (338)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
1st Baron Barham
A. J. Humbert
A. V. Alexander
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Albert Ball
Alfred Harker
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Andrew Carnegie
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Archibald Sinclair
Arthur Asquith
Arthur Balfour
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Arthur Tedder
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Aston Webb
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bertrand Russell
Cecil Rhodes
Charles Barry Jr.
Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey
Charles Darwin (son of Erasmus Darwin)
Charles Glover Barkla
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Charles Longley
Charles Portal
Charlotte, Princess Royal
Christopher Cockerell
Colin Campbell
Colin Clive
Cyril Asquith
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Haig
Duff Cooper
Duncan Grant
Edward Blore
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Cadogan
Edward Codrington
Edward FitzRoy
Edward James Harland
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward William Lane
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Edwin Lutyens
Enid Mary Blyton
Eric Drummond
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
Ernest Brown
Evelyn Waugh
F. P. Ramsey
Florence Nightingale
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
Frederick Sykes
G. E. Moore
G. H. Hardy
George Boole
George Canning
George Clive (British Army officer)
George Clive (barrister)
George III of the United Kingdom
George IV of the United Kingdom
George Lane-Fox
George Newnes
George Philip Wells
George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough
Giles Gilbert Scott
Gwen Raverat
Harold Abrahams
Harold Macmillan
Henry Bessemer
Henry Drummond Wolff
Henry Tizard
Henry Vincent
Herbert Henry Asquith
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Samuel
Hugh Dalton
Ian Fleming
J. L. Austin
J. R. R. Tolkien
James Chadwick
James Henry Thomas
James McCartney Sr.
James McCudden
Jo Grimond
John Alcock
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
John Llewellin
John Rushworth Jellicoe
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
John Russell, Viscount Amberley
John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough
John Venn
John William Waterhouse
Joseph Lister
Joseph Prestwich
Kenneth Grahame
Kingsley Wood
Leonard Huxley
Lord Canning
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Fisher
Lord Hardinge
Lord Irwin
Lord Jellicoe
Lord Kelvin
Lord Linlithgow
Lord Milner
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Rayleigh
Lord Trenchard
Lord Wavell
Lord Wellesley
Lytton Strachey
Margot Tennant
Mary Anne Disraeli
Mary Shelley
Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Michael Faraday
Michael O’Dwyer
Murray Sueter
Nevil Macready
Nevill Mott
Noel Pemberton Billing
Ottoline Morrell
Owen Jones
Percy Fawcett
Peter Fleming
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom
R. J. Mitchell
Randolph Churchill
Raymond Asquith
Reginald Warneford
Richard McCreery
Robert FitzRoy
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rosalind Franklin
Rosslyn Wemyss
Roy Urquhart
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Samuel Wilberforce
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Sir Henry Cole
Sir John Fowler
Sir John Simon
Sir Robert Peel
Spencer Perceval
Stafford Cripps
Stanley Baldwin
Sydney Camm
T. H. White
Terence Rattigan
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Sopwith
Valentine Fleming
Violet Bonham Carter
Virginia Woolf
William Bateson
William Ewart Gladstone
William Howard Russell
William Hunt (architect)
William Marsden
William Morris
William Smith O'Brien
William Wellesley-Pole
Éamon de Valera
countryOfCitizenship
Armistice of 11 November 1918 ("United Kingdom")
Baltic campaign
Battle of Alma
Battle of Balaclava
Battle of Baltimore
Battle of Bladensburg ("United Kingdom")
Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
Battle of Inkerman
Battle of New Orleans ("United Kingdom")
Battle of Quatre Bras
Battle of Queenston Heights ("United Kingdom")
Battle of Sahagún
Battle of Salamanca
Battle of Talavera
Battle of Vitoria
Battle of Waterloo
Bombardment of Odessa
British naval blockade of Europe
Charge of the Light Brigade
First Battle of the Marne ("United Kingdom")
Irish War of Independence
Second Boer War ("United Kingdom")
Siege of Ladysmith ("United Kingdom")
Siege of Lucknow
Third Anglo-Burmese War
War of the Fifth Coalition
War of the Fourth Coalition
War of the Second Coalition
War of the Sixth Coalition
War of the Third Coalition
belligerent
Asia (colonial possessions)
Board of Control
Board of Ordnance
British Indian Department
British North American colonies (except some territories)
Court of Directors
EIC
Georgian era
Lord High Admiral of England
Navy Board
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Queen's College, Cork
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816)
Secretary of the Board of Longitude
Sir William Hotham
Sopwith Aviation Company
Treaty of Ghent
country
Acts of Union 1800 ("Ireland")
British home front during World War I ("Ireland (pre-1922)")
First Lord of the Admiralty
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Postmaster General of Great Britain
Public Health Acts in Britain ("Ireland (pre-1922)")
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1837–1952)
Secretary of State for the Southern Department ("Ireland")
appliesToJurisdiction
Anglo-Sikh Wars
First Boer War
Greek War of Independence
War of the Seventh Coalition
Waterloo Campaign
countryInvolved
Edward VII
George III of the United Kingdom
King of the United Kingdom ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (historical)")
Queen Victoria
William IV
monarchOf
British Channel Fleet
Colin Campbell
Royal Flying Corps ("Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland")
allegiance
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ("United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland")
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ("Britain")
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)")
alsoKnownAs
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Oscar Wilde
William Erasmus Darwin
citizenship
Ada Lovelace
Leslie Stephen ("United Kingdom")
Queen Victoria ("United Kingdom")
countryOfBirth
Bombardment of Odessa
Hundred Days
Les Cent-Jours
opponent
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Ireland
followedBy
Old Age Pensions Act 1908
Secretary of State for the Northern Department ("Ireland (at certain periods)")
jurisdiction
Acts of Union 1800
Kingdom of Great Britain
mergedInto
Congress of Vienna
London Conference of 1830–1831
participant
Treaty of London (1831)
Treaty of Nanking
signatory
Duke
Royal Arms of the United Kingdom used 1714–1801 ("Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland")
usedIn
Sultan Abdülmecid I
ally
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816) ("Ireland")
appliesToPart
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
appliesToTerritorialExtent
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
associatedWith
Burning of Washington ("United Kingdom")
attacker
Treaty of Vereeniging ("United Kingdom")
belligerentParty
Treaty of Amiens
betweenCountry
Lord Byron ("United Kingdom")
birthPlace
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
borderedBy
Ross Dependency ("United Kingdom (historically)")
claimedBy
British West Indies
colonialPower
Battle of Baltimore ("United Kingdom")
combatant
Crimean War
conflictBelligerent
War of 1812 ("United Kingdom")
conflictBetween
Chancellor of the Exchequer
continuesIn
Concert of Europe
coreMember
John Everett Millais
country of citizenship
Coronation of George III ("Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland")
countryAtTime
Treaty of Nanking
countryBenefited
RNAS Cranwell
countryDuringOperation
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
countryNameInEnglish
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
countryOfDeath
London Conference of 1830–1831
countryOfOccurrence
John Company
countryOfOrigin
Anglo-Irish Treaty
countrySignatory
Acts of Union 1800
createdPoliticalEntity
French Empire
enemy
First French Empire
enemyOf
Order of St Michael and St George
establishedInTerritory
Old Age Pensions Act 1908 ("Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom)")
geographicCoverage
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
governs
Triple Entente
hasMemberState
Bombardment of Odessa
hasParticipant
Treaty of Paris (1856)
hasSignatory
Greek War of Independence
hasSupportingBelligerent
William Pitt the Younger
headOfGovernmentOf
Earl of Northesk
historicalAssociation
Peerage of Ireland
historicallyAssociatedWith
British monarchy ("United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland monarchy")
historicalPrecursor
United Kingdom
historicalPredecessor
British East India Company
laterCountryOfOrigin
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
legislativeBodyFor
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
legislativeBranchOf
King of Ireland
linkedTo
An Gorta Mór
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Great Famine
location
Napoleonic Wars
mainBelligerent
Kingdom of Great Britain ("Acts of Union 1800")
mergerLegalBasis
British Empire
metropole
International Meridian Conference
participatingEntity
Treaty of Pretoria (1881)
party
Treaty of Trianon
partyTo
Lord Chelmsford ("United Kingdom")
placeOfBirth
Irish Free State
precededBy
Coalition Wars
primaryBelligerent
Spencer Perceval
primeMinisterOf
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich
realm
Treaty of Nanking
requiredCessionTo
Acts of Union 1800
result
House of Hanover
ruled
Welf
ruledTerritory
Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909
signatoryParty
Treaty of Paris (1815)
signatoryState
Treaty of Ghent
signedBy
Bombay Presidency ("United Kingdom")
sovereign
Prince of Scotland
successorState
Democratic Unionist Party ("Union of Northern Ireland with Great Britain")
supports
Royal Titles Act 1876
territorialReference
Duke of York
usedInMonarchy

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