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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf constitutional monarchy
former country
sovereign state
alsoKnownAs United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
surface form: Britain

United Kingdom
surface form: UK

United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922)
anthem God Save the King
capital London, England
surface form: London
coatOfArms Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816)
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816)
surface form: 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
surface form: North America (colonial possessions)

Oceania (colonial possessions)
countryNameInEnglish United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland self-link
currency Pound sterling
endTime 1922-12-06
event Acts of Union 1800
flagName Union Flag
followedBy Irish Free State
United Kingdom
surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
governmentForm unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
headOfGovernmentTitle Prime Minister
headOfStateTitle Monarch
includesTerritory Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
England
British Isles
surface form: Great Britain

Ireland
Isle of Man (crown dependency)
Scotland
Wales
legalSystem common law
legislativeBody British Parliament
surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
lowerHouse House of Commons of the United Kingdom
officialLanguage English
participatedIn Crimean War
World War I
surface form: 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

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Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Armstrong (composer) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Thomas Armstrong
General Sir George Brown allegiance United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: George Brown
Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart allegiance United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: George Cathcart
Entente Powers hadMember United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Irish Whig operatedWithin United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Maxwell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Black Sea campaign of the Crimean War belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Michael Davitt wasImprisonedBy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Treaty of Paris (1814) countrySignatory United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ellen Wilkinson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Young Darracott Scott countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Albuera belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Francis Meagher citizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alec Clunes countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alan Lennox-Boyd countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alfred Brumwell Thomas countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Wheatstone (historical) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Charles Wheatstone
Congress System coreMember United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Augustus Robert Spencer-Churchill countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Oldfield Thomas countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lady Elizabeth Graham-Toler countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Grenville countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Action of 19 August 1916 countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Millais countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Everett Millais
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Joseph Chamberlain countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Michael Wilding countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tunku Abdul Rahman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lady Georgiana Spencer-Churchill livedIn United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Civil List jurisdiction United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Brenda de Banzie countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Eastern Front of the Crimean War belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Eastern Front of the Crimean War alliedPower United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Wellington’s 1812 Salamanca campaign countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1st Viscount Thurso countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
Edward Stanley, 23rd Earl of Derby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities in 1853 opposedBy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Gray countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Rowland Hill countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Laurence Naismith countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Andrew Huxley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Michael Ventris countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Richard Addinsell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland