Hannoverian Period

POVOLNÝ MATĚJ 6A8

House of Hanover

 Death of Queen Anne in 1714 - end of the Stuarts

 Act of Settlement (1707) – King George I of Hanover
 oldest king on accession in English history (54)
 didn‘t want to learn English, spent time in Hanover not London
 he managed to suppress various Jacobite rebellions
 monarchy became more accountable to parliament
 Robert Walpole (1721 – 1742)
House of Hanover

 1714 – Whigs came to power with the support of Hanoverian Tories

 Jacobite rising of 1715 – discredited the Tories -> Whig oligarchy

King George II of Hanover (1727 – 1760)

 War of Austrian Succession; little to no power himself; last monarch to lead an army
 Walpole received a gift – 10 Downing Street
 Jacobite rising of 1745 (the ’45) – Charles Edward Stuart; supressed
 Henry Pelham (1743 – 1754) – financial policies
The Seven Years‘ War

 1756 – 1763 – global conflict started by Prussia‘s invasion of Saxony

 the British focused on the expansion of new territory in North America which was mostly
claimed by France
 Treaty of Paris (1763) – GB gained Canada, Florida and other lands
 Great Britain emerged from the war a world power
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George III of Hanover (1760 – 1820)

 American war of Independence – losing colonies – 1783, British attention turned towards Asia and Africa
 colonisation of Australia
 Act of Union – Britain and Ireland became a single nation in 1801
 Napoleonic Wars (continental systém, Waterloo 1815 – Arthur Wellesley , lord of Wellington)
 William Cavendish, Frederick North
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George IV of Hanover (1820 – 1830)

 regent for his father (victory in Napoleonic Wars)
 extravagant lifestyle, died of obesity
 reconstruction of Buckingham Palace

William IV (1830 – 1837)

 brother of George IV; ‘the Sailor King‘
 local governments were democratised, child labor restricted, slavery abolished throughout the
British Empire; Reform Act of 1832 (new electoral system)
Sources:

 http://projectbritain.com/monarchy/hanovarians.html
 https://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/hanover_11.html
 https://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/history/classic-history/kings-and-queens/article/hanoverians-1
714-1837/
 https://www.historyhit.com/the-hanoverian-monarchs-in-order/
 https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Addington