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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Siege of Prome hasParticipant United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Hastings countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Michael Ernest Sadler countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henrietta Barnett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sydney Cockerell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Admiral William Brown countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Spike Island controlledBy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Emma Alice Margaret Tennant countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Moira (Marquess of Hastings) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tom Clarke citizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Tom Clarke (Irish republican)
15th Division garrison United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
this entity surface form: United Kingdom (in World War I)
Charles Ritchie countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Folland countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of the Great Redan countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
14th Earl of Derby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
F. F. Tuckett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Anthony Asquith countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Anglo-Siamese agreements on frontier delimitation signatory United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Ernest Debenham countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Jane Ellen Harrison countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Noel countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham
Convention of London (1884) signatory United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Tom Wintringham countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Fred Copeman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Matthew Digby Wyatt countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frank countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Frank P. Ramsey
Eliza Phillips countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
G. H. Darwin countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Oswald Short countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Horace Short countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester (second creation) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Abraham Grierson citizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Godfrey Hounsfield countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Tate countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Baronetage of Great Britain successorJurisdiction United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles A. Phipps countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Callcott Horsley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Marquess of Downshire in the Peerage of Ireland titleIn United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Marquess of Downshire
this entity surface form: Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Henry Smith countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord George Hamilton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Islington countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Wedgwood Benn countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Bryce countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Bouch countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Hubert Bath countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Monarch_of_the_United_Kingdom_in_British_Honduras sovereignStateDuringOffice United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
this entity surface form: United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
Battle of Flushing countryInvolved United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Great Western Steamship Company country United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland