Person:George III of the United Kingdom (1)

George III _____, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Facts and Events
Name[4] George III _____, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Alt Name[1] George William Frederick _____
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 Jun 1738 London, Middlesex, EnglandNorfolk House
Marriage 8 Sep 1761 St. James's Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, Englandmarriage arranged by parents
to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz _____
Other[2] 22 Sep 1761 Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, EnglandCoronation
Death[3] 29 Jan 1820 Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Reference Number? Q127318?
References
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  4. George III of the United Kingdom, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

    George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover but, unlike his two predecessors, he was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language and never visited Hanover.

    George's life and reign, which were longer than those of any of his predecessors, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1807, the transatlantic slave trade was banned from the British Empire.

    In the later part of his life, George had recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. Although it has since been suggested that he had bipolar disorder or the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness remains unknown. George suffered a final relapse in 1810, and his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, became Prince Regent the following year. When George III died in 1820, the Regent succeeded him as King George IV. Historical analysis of George III's life has gone through a "kaleidoscope of changing views" that have depended heavily on the prejudices of his biographers and the sources available to them.

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  5.   George III Hanover, King of Great Britain, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  6.   Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
    Volume 3 page 178.
Succession of Monarchs of the United Kingdom
George I

1714-1727
his great-grandfather

George II

1727-1760
his grandfather

King of the Great Britain and Ireland

1760-1801

George IV

1820-1830
his son

William IV

1830-1837
his son

Acts of Union 1800 King of the United Kingdom
1801-1820
Congress of Vienna King of Hanover
1814-1820