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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John Vereker countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Elizabeth Wordsworth countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Alexandria belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Pethick-Lawrence countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Neill countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Arbuthnot Fisher
Sir Robert Hamilton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
J. C. Adams countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bernard Pyne Grenfell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Hawkshaw countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frank Baines countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Harold William Tilman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Walter Long countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Delafield Arnold countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir James Milne Robb countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Mary Hayley Bell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Roy Boulting countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frederick countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1st Earl of Birkenhead countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Catherine Amy Dawson Scott countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Surridge Hunt countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Kerreri belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Burnside countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Gavan Duffy countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Benn W. Levy countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cecil Leigh-Mallory countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Bussaco belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Reith countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Edward Burnett Tylor countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Vimeiro belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frank Halford countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dennis Price countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Norman Lockyer countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Boulting countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Mitchinson Hicks countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Elisabeth Scott countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Robert Montgomery countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Engagement of USS Hornet vs HMS Peacock belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Roderic Hill countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George James Symons countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ronald Norrish countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Roland Culver countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland