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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Archibald Campbell Tait countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Tite countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Herbert Hall Turner countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Randal Cremer countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Margaret MacDonald countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Benita Hume countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
A. E. Housman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Earl Canning countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charlotte Canning countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Clemency Canning countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Hugh Gough countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
Douglas Robert Steuart Bader countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Webster–Ashburton Treaty negotiations countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Webster–Ashburton Treaty negotiations signatorySide United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 countrySignatory United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Stanley Lane-Poole countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Copenhagen 1801 belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Roberts countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Gouge countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Hichens countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood deathCountry United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Cuthbert Collingwood
Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood allegiance United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Cuthbert Collingwood
Dilly Knox countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Philip Morrell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Francis Bentley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Stuart Milner-Barry countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1917) countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Andrews countryOfBirth United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Reginald Blomfield countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Lasenby Liberty countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Jowett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
A. D. Lindsay countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Halford Mackinder countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Francis L. Sullivan countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bernard George countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Boyle O'Reilly countryOfConviction United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Kandyan Wars belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ken Annakin countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Margot Asquith countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ronald Armstrong-Jones countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Milan Decree aimedAt United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Milan Decree opposedBy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Cecil countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Algeciras Bay countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland