Kingdom of Great Britain

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former country sovereign state

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state that existed from 1707 to 1801, formed by the political union of England (and Wales) and Scotland, and became a major global colonial and maritime power.

Aliases (11)

Great Britain ×5
United Kingdom of Great Britain ×2
Acts of Union 1707 ×1
Government of Great Britain ×1
Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1782) ×1
Kingdom of Great Britain (after 1707, as historical law of Scotland) ×1
Kingdom of Great Britain (colonial authority) ×1
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ×1
Kingdom of Great Britain monarchy ×1
United Kingdom ×1
historical Kingdom of Great Britain ×1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former country → sovereign state →
alsoKnownAs	Great Britain →
capital	London →
continent	Europe →
country	Great Britain →
currency	Pound sterling →
dateDissolved	1801-01-01 →
dateEstablished	1707-05-01 →
endTime	1801 →
flag	Union Flag →
followedBy	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
formedByUnionOf	Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Scotland →
governmentForm	constitutional monarchy →
hadColony	British India → British West Indies → New South Wales → Province of Quebec → Thirteen Colonies →
headOfState	British monarch →
includedTerritory	England → Scotland → Wales →
legalBasisOfUnion	Acts of Union 1707 →
legislativeBody	Parliament of Great Britain →
lowerHouse	House of Commons of Great Britain →
majorPowerIn	18th century →
mergedInto	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland →
mergerLegalBasis	Acts of Union 1800 →
monarch	Anne, Queen of Great Britain → George I of Great Britain → George II of Great Britain → George III of the United Kingdom →
notableFor	colonial expansion → maritime power →
officialLanguage	English →
participatedIn	American Revolutionary War → French Revolutionary Wars → Seven Years' War → War of the Spanish Succession →
precededBy	Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Scotland →
primeMinister	Robert Walpole → William Pitt the Elder → William Pitt the Younger →
religion	Anglicanism → Presbyterianism → Protestantism →
startTime	1707 →
upperHouse	House of Lords →
wasPartOf	British Empire →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 806)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1st Baron Barham → Abraham de Moivre → Adam Ferguson → Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge → Alexander Cochrane → Alexander Martin → Alexander Pope → Allan Ramsay → Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens → Ann Radcliffe → Anna Laetitia Barbauld → Anna Seward → Anne Liddell → Anne Speke → Anne of Great Britain → Anthony Wayne → Arthur Lee → Arthur Phillip → Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington → Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton → Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex → Banastre Tarleton → Benjamin Henry Latrobe → Betsy Ross → Capability Brown → Captain John Byron → Catherine Gordon → Catherine Shorter → Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis → Charles Darwin (son of Erasmus Darwin) → Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton → Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey → Charles Lee → Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond → Charles Saunders → Charles Townshend → Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham → Charles Wesley → Charlotte, Princess Royal → David Hartley → David Home → David Hume → David Ricardo → Dorothy Fane → Dugald Stewart → Earl Grey → Edmund Nelson → Edward Berry → Edward Boscawen → Edward Clive (judge) → Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis → Edward Codrington → Edward Hawke → Edward Hawke → Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke → Edward Vernon → Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn → Elizabeth Popham → Elizabeth Townshend → Elizabeth Wrottesley → Emma Hamilton → Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover → Everina Wollstonecraft → Frances Burney → Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater → Francis Fauquier → Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin → Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford → Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore → Frederick Muhlenberg → Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford → Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford → Frederick North, Lord North → Frederick North, Lord North → Galfridus Mann → Gavin Hamilton → George Canning → George Clinton → George Cockburn → George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton → George Grenville → George II of Great Britain → George III of the United Kingdom → George IV of the United Kingdom → George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle → George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough → George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend → George Vancouver → George Walker → George Washington → George Washington → George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg → Georgiana Byng → Gouverneur Morris → Granville Sharp → Guy Carleton → Hannah More → Harriet Eckersall → Harriet Pitt → Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough → Henrietta Maria Yarborough → Henry Cavendish → Henry Dundas → Henry Hamilton → Henry Home, Lord Kames → Henry Lee III → Henry Pelham → Hester Pitt → Horace Mann → Horace Mann, 1st Baronet → Horace Walpole → Horatio Nelson → Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton → Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (second creation) → Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (second creation) → Hugh Blair → Hugh Mercer → Isaac Brock → J. Dodsley → J. Johnson → James Adam → James Bowdoin → James Brindley → James Charles Pitt → James Cook → James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas → James Hargreaves → James Hutton → James McGill → James McHenry → James Mill → James Smithson → James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope → James Watt → James Watt Jr. → James Wilson → James Wolfe → James Wright → Jane Austen → Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst → Jeremy Bentham → Johann Christoph Pepusch → John Aikin → John Baskerville → John Burgoyne → John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll → John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun → John Carroll → John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville → John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough → John Dickinson → John Flaxman → John Gay → John Gay → John Gilbert → John Hancock ("Great Britain") → John Hanson → John Howard → John Langdon → John Lewis Gervais → John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich → John Nash → John Newton → John Paul Jones → John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont → John Pitt → John Pitt (younger brother) → John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham → John Rennie the Elder → John Roebuck → John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford → John Rutledge → John Seddon of Warrington → John Stafford Smith → John Wesley → John Whitehurst → John Wilkinson → John Witherspoon → Joseph Black → Joseph Galloway → Joseph Priestley → Josiah Wedgwood II → Kitty Clive → Lancelot "Capability" Brown → Lancelot "Capability" Brown →	countryOfCitizenship
6th Regiment of Foot → Acts of Union 1800 → Adam Brothers → Administration of Justice Act 1774 → Agricultural Revolution in Britain → Aldborough → Anacreontic Society → Augustan literature → Baron Nelson → Battle of Preston (1715) → Board of Control → Board of Ordnance → Braddock Expedition → Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay → British America → British Army under Cornwallis → British Articles of War → British East India Company administration of Saint Helena → British Enlightenment → British Indian Department → British North American colonies (except some territories) → British colonial authorities → British occupation of New York City → Buckingham House → Captain Thomas Preston → Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry → Colonial Assembly of North Carolina → Colony and Dominion of Virginia → Colony of Maryland → Colony of Pennsylvania → Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations → Commander-in-Chief, North America → Commons House of Assembly → Commutation Act 1784 → Coronation of George I → Coronation of George II → Coronation of George III → Countess of Chatham → Court of Directors → Court of Proprietors → Delaware Colony → Deputy Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay → Duchess of Albany → Duke of Albany → Duke of Cumberland → Duke of Marlborough → Duke of Newcastle → Duke of Portland → Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot → EIC → Earl of Burlington → Earl of Chatham → Earl of Godolphin → Earl of Orford → East Florida → English Dissenting Academies movement → English Whigs → Francis Smith → Georgian era → Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America → Goose Creek, Province of South Carolina → Gordon Riots → Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain → Grenville political family → HMS Adventure → HMS Bellerophon → HMS Countess of Scarborough → HMS Discovery → HMS Endeavour → HMS Goliath → HMS Minotaur → HMS Namur → HMS Orion → HMS Resolution → HMS Serapis → HMS Vanguard → HMS Victory → Henry Clinton → Hester Grenville → Hester Grenville, Countess of Chatham → House of Commons of Great Britain → Intolerable Acts → Jacobite rising of 1715 → Jacobite rising of 1745 → Jacobite risings → Kingdom of Great Britain ("Great Britain") → Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre → London Bills of Mortality → Lord High Admiral of England → Lord High Treasurer → Loyalist provincial corps → Lunar Society of Birmingham → Marquess of Abercorn → Maskelyne family → Navy Board → New Hampshire General Assembly → New Jersey General Assembly → New York Colony → Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency) → Pallas → Parliament of Great Britain → Paymaster of the Forces → Peerage of Great Britain → Pitt family → Princeton, New Jersey Colony → Province of Delaware → Province of Georgia → Province of Massachusetts Bay → Province of New Hampshire → Province of New Jersey → Province of New York → Province of North Carolina → Province of Pennsylvania → Province of Quebec → Province of South Carolina → Quebec Act → Revestment Act 1765 → Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington → Richard Pearson → Robert Pigot → Rockingham Whig → Rogers' Rangers → Royal Arms of England and Scotland quarterly → Royal Arms of the United Kingdom used 1714–1801 → Royal Governor of the Bahamas → Samuel Cornish → Scottish Militia Bill 1708 → Scottish representative peers in House of Lords → Second voyage of James Cook → Secretary at War → Secretary of State for the Northern Department → Secretary of State for the Southern Department → Secretary of the Admiralty → Secretary of the Board of Longitude → Select Society → Sir George Pocock → Sir Robert Walpole → Sir Thomas Frankland → Sir William Hotham → Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade → South Sea Bubble → Southern Colonies → Strawberry Hill Press → Tea Act → The Great Commoner → The Scriblerus Club → The Statutes of the Realm → Thirteen Colonies → Thomas Foley → Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle → Townshend Acts (tea tax component) → Treasurer of the Navy → Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America → Tuscarora War ("Kingdom of Great Britain (colonial authority)") → Virginia pound → Viscount Pitt → Viscount Rialton → Viscount Walpole → W. Strahan and T. Cadell → Walpole family → Warrington Academy → West Florida → Whig Party → William Pitt the Elder →	country
American Revolutionary War → Anglo-Dutch Wars → Atlantic campaign of the American Revolutionary War → Battle of Bloody Creek (1711) → Battle of Chandannagar → Battle of Flamborough Head → Battle of Fontenoy → Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (French and Indian War) → Battle of Guilford Court House → Battle of Krefeld → Battle of Lagos → Battle of Malplaquet → Battle of Minden → Battle of Minorca (1756) → Battle of Oudenarde → Battle of Quiberon Bay → Battle of Sainte-Foy → Battle of Sheriffmuir → Battle of Warburg → Battle of the Dogger Bank (1799) → Battles of Lexington and Concord ("Great Britain") → Brest blockade → British campaign against New France → British occupation of Philadelphia → King George's War → Monmouth campaign → Napoleon's Egyptian campaign ("United Kingdom") → Queen Anne's War → Saratoga campaign → Second Anglo-Mysore War → Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) → Siege of Havana (1762) → Siege of Louisbourg (1745) → Siege of Manila (1762) → Siege of Port Royal (1710) → Siege of Toulon → Siege of Yorktown → Storming of Redoubt 9 → Third Silesian War → War of the Spanish Succession ("Great Britain") →	belligerent
Adam Smith → Benjamin Franklin → Benjamin West → Charles Cornwallis → Daniel Defoe → Edmund Burke → Erasmus Darwin → Francis Hutcheson → Francis Smith → George Frideric Handel → George Whitefield → Isaac Newton → James Oglethorpe → Johann Christian Bach → Joseph Johnson → Samuel Hearne → William Pitt the Elder → William Robertson →	citizenship
15th Hussars → Banastre Tarleton → British Channel Fleet → Charles Cornwallis → Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis → Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford → James Abercrombie → James Wolfe → John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll → John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough → John Pitcairn → Lord George Sackville → Prince George of Denmark → Robert Rogers → Royal Scots → Sir George Pocock → William Cadogan →	allegiance
Anglo-Russian invasion of the Netherlands → Annus Mirabilis of 1759 → Battle of Cape Passaro → Battle of Flamborough Head → Battle of Wilhelmsthal → Battle of the Chesapeake → Battle of the Dogger Bank (1799) → French Revolutionary Wars → Renversement des alliances → Townshend Acts era → War of the First Coalition → Westminster Convention (1756) →	countryInvolved
First Lord of the Admiralty → Peerage of Great Britain → Postmaster General of Great Britain → Royal Arms of the United Kingdom used 1714–1801 → Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (1801–1816) → Secretary of State for the Northern Department → Treaty of Utrecht →	appliesToJurisdiction
British West Indies → British colonial period in Jamaica → House of Burgesses → Middle Colonies → New Hampshire → North Carolina → Port Morant →	colonialPower
George Everest → George Whitefield → John Strachan → Lady Caroline Lamb → Ralph Tomlinson → Robert Morris → Susannah Darwin →	countryOfBirth
Charles Cornwallis → Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis → Humphry Repton → Josiah Wedgwood I → Pitt the Elder →	birthCountry
Arthur Phillip → David Ricardo → Hugh Mercer → Louisa Catherine Adams → Louise of Great Britain →	birthPlace
Battle of Brandywine → Battle of the Plains of Abraham → Fourth Anglo-Mysore War →	combatant
British Canada → Elmina Castle → St. George’s Castle →	controlledBy
Elizabeth Pole Darwin → James Keir → Robert Darwin →	country of citizenship
Battle of Long Island → Battle of Quebec (1759) → Coronation of George II ("Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland") →	countryAtTime
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick → States Army of the Dutch Republic →	alliedWith
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor →	allyInWarOfTheSpanishSuccession
Kingdom of Great Britain ("Great Britain") →	alsoKnownAs
Parliament of Great Britain →	appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction
Treaty of Paris (1763) →	belligerentParty
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) →	cededTo
Acts of Union 1800 →	changedPoliticalStatusOf
Ohio Country →	claimedBy
Third Anglo-Mysore War →	coalitionMember
Cape Colony →	colonizedBy
Independence Day →	commemoratesFromCountry
War of Jenkins' Ear →	conflictBelligerent
Second Anglo-Mysore War →	conflictBetween
Batavian army →	conflictWith
Chancellor of the Exchequer →	continuesIn
Robert Darwin →	country of birth
Definitive Treaty of Peace →	countryAffected
Weymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay →	countryDuringExistence
Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain →	countryGoverned
William Small →	countryOfActivity