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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Thomas Wade countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Herbert Giles countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Cromie countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
St. Helen’s, Booterstown countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough
Lord Henry Petty countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alexander Binnie countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Battle of Ferozeshah belligerent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Miles Christopher Dempsey countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
Sir Alexander Binnie countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Jean Anderson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John Harington Gubbins countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John William Fortescue countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John William Watson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John William Kaye countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Pearson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Gough, 2nd Viscount Gough countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Gibbes countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Geoffrey Taylor countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Philip Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir John William Wilson countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Edward Stanhope countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Harwood countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir James Stewart Lockhart countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Henman countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Harold Flowers countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore, 5th Earl of Arran countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Paul John James Charles Gore, 6th Earl of Arran countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dugald Macfadyen countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Elizabeth Longford countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Osbert Salvin countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Walter Emden countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ernest Troubridge countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Frederick Lindley countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Claude Waterlow Ferrier countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Maxwell Ayrton countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Andrews Sr. countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles Lightoller countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: John George Phillips
Tom Walls countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Thomas Burberry countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Neville Keynes countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Cardinal Manning countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Lord Arthur Russell countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
C. E. M. Joad countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
5th Earl Stanhope countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
subject surface form: Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope