Kingdom of Great Britain

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former country
sovereign state
alsoKnownAs Kingdom of Great Britain
surface form: Great Britain
capital London, England
surface form: London
continent Europe
country Kingdom of Great Britain self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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
Kingdom of Scotland
surface form: Scotland

Wales
legalBasisOfUnion Kingdom of Great Britain self-linksurface differs
surface form: Acts of Union 1707
legislativeBody Parliament of Great Britain
lowerHouse House of Commons of the United Kingdom
surface form: House of Commons of Great Britain
majorPowerIn 18th century
mergedInto United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
mergerLegalBasis United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
surface form: 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

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Joseph Addison countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Henry Fielding countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Eliza Haywood countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu countryOfDeath Kingdom of Great Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu citizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
The Rape of the Lock countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
The Dunciad countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Gulliver's Travels countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Joseph Andrews countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Bernard Lintot countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Trivia countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Bishop Francis Atterbury countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
subject surface form: Francis Atterbury
Dr. John Freind countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
William Wyndham countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Lord Peterborough allegiance Kingdom of Great Britain
subject surface form: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
Lord Oxford country Kingdom of Great Britain
subject surface form: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Lord Oxford country Kingdom of Great Britain
subject surface form: Scriblerus Club
Lord Bolingbroke countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Martinus Scriblerus countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Monday; or, The Squabble countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Thursday; or, The Spell countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Friday; or, The Dirge countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
John Rich countryOfActivity Kingdom of Great Britain
The Conscious Lovers countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Jack Sheppard countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Jonathan Wild countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
William R. Broughton countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Hector Munro countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Windsor-Forest countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Moral Essays countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Imitations of Horace countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Pastorals countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Tynton, Glamorgan, Wales countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
subject surface form: Richard Price
John Arbuthnot countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
John Arbuthnot placeOfDeath Kingdom of Great Britain
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Tuesday; or, The Ditty countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Saturday; or, The Flights countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
Thomas Edwards countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
subject surface form: Thomas Edwards (critic)
Richard Pearson countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Robert Burns Jr. countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer countryContext Kingdom of Great Britain
Lord Charles FitzRoy countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Henry Penton countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
John Gurney countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
Princess of Hanover country Kingdom of Great Britain