United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

E433

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.

All labels observed (28)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (54)

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1,776)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Clifford Paterson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Millicent Garrett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Basil Blackett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Nigel Patrick countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Grattan Flood countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Elsie Mackay countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alexander Cockburn (Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Alexander Cockburn
Francis Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Albuhera belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Alfred Spencer-Churchill countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Stewart countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Egerton, 3rd Earl of Wilton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Maud Royden countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ethel Gordon Fenwick countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cecil Harmsworth countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dorothy Whitelock countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Geoffrey Dawson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Wheatstone countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Charles Wheatstone
Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Eustace Tennyson d’Eyncourt countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Propert countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
J. Norman Collie countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Martin Conway countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Everett countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Everett Millais
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Captain Francis Crozier countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Francis Crozier
Sir Montague Burton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lady Harriet Chichester countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Emanuel Shinwell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Desmond FitzGerald countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Basil Hall Chamberlain countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Neville Chamberlain (Lord Mayor of Birmingham) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Wellington’s 1813 Vitoria campaign belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Basil Hall Chamberlain (Japanologist) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Lord John Russell (third term context: Russell–Derby–Disraeli era) countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Lord John Russell
Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Saki countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1st Earl Cowley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1st Marquess of Hastings countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
Guy Maunsell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Vandyke Carter countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Earl Ranfurly countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
C. W. Saleeby countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland