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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Ethel Smyth countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Richard Pankhurst countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Maudsley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frank Birch countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Cairns countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Stafford Northcote countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Gathorne Hardy countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Douglas Hartree countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Siege of Fort Meigs belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Vernon George Waldegrave Kell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Adrian Wilson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lawrence Oates countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Horner Haslett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cardwell, Edward countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Edward Cardwell
Sir Henry Tyler countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Margery Corbett Ashby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
British intervention in Calabria (1806) belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Eleanor Rathbone countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ray Strachey countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
7th Duke of Marlborough countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
Mary Burt countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Adriatic theatre of the Napoleonic Wars belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Platt countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Pakenham, 2nd Baron Longford countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Hercules Robert Pakenham countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Samuel Lowell Price countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Dorman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Stopes countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Marie Stopes
Vivian countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Archibald Vivian Hill
2nd Marquess of Londonderry countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry
Angela du Maurier countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Kerr countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Edward Bates countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bill Tilman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Bourke, 1st Baron Connemara countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
H. C. K. Wyld countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Brand countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Egerton, Viscount Alford countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Algernon Egerton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Marcus Milner countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Kinburn (1855) belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
E. M. Wright countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
E. H. Carr countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Clifford Copland Paterson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland