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 countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Stephen Spring Rice countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Roger Keyes countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Henry Gladstone countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Herbert Fisher countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Percy Cudlipp countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frank Owen countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Hugh Mackintosh Foot countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir William Henry Barber countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Cornewall Lewis countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
M. E. Grant Duff countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Anna Sewell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Montagu Villiers countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alfred Lyttelton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Byam Shaw countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Aubrey Mather countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Russell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Paul Waterhouse countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bottomley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Horatio Bottomley
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
British 27th Division belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Almirante Guillermo Brown countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Penelope Lawrence countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Bowen countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Allan Jeayes countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1st Viscount Perth countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: James Eric Drummond, 1st Viscount Perth
Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Kimberley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Spencer countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry William Braddock countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Walford Davies countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Henry Waghorn countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Henry Parnell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Elizabeth Corbet "Lolly" Yeats countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Elizabeth Corbet Yeats
Sir William Henry Gregory countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Hayter countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Lennox Berkeley
Christian Broun of Coalstoun countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
Baron Boyd-Orr countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Renshaw countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland