{"slug": "george-i-of-great-britain", "label": "George I of Great Britain", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130805", "qid": "Q130805", "description": "King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1727", "entries": 13, "years": 10, "span": [1668, 1726], "span_label": ["1668 CE", "1726 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "james-francis-edward-stuart", "label": "James Francis Edward Stuart", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "james-ii-of-england", "label": "James II of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "westminster-abbey", "label": "Westminster Abbey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tower-of-london", "label": "Tower of London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jacobitism", "label": "Jacobitism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "prussia", "label": "Prussia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berlin", "label": "Berlin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "church-of-england", "label": "Church of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-ii-of-great-britain", "label": "George II of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-frideric-handel", "label": "George Frideric Handel", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, sister of King George I of Great Britain (d. 1705)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989896#Births", "title": "1668", "revid": 1365989896, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1698, "year_label": "1698 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – George Louis becomes Elector of Hanover upon the death of his father, Ernest Augustus. Because the widow of Ernest Augustus, George's mother Sophia, was heiress presumptive as the cousin of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and Anne's closest eligible heir, George will become King of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370144847#January–March", "title": "1698", "revid": 1370144847, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1706, "year_label": "1706 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – The royal wedding of Prussia takes place in Berlin between the 18-year-old Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and his bride Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, the 19-year-old daughter of the future King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351890964#October–December", "title": "1706", "revid": 1351890964, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September", "text": "September – Composer George Frideric Handel re-locates to London with the permission of his patron, the future King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964331#July–September", "title": "1712", "revid": 1367964331, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 20", "text": "October 20 – The coronation of George I of Great Britain and Ireland takes place in Westminster Abbey, a little less than three months after George became the new British monarch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#October–December", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 18", "text": "September 18 – George I, the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed Hannover and sailing from the Netherlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#July–September", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1715, "year_label": "1715 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – The first major Jacobite rising in Scotland against the rule of King George I of Great Britain breaks out. The Earl of Mar raises the standard of James Edward Stuart, and marches on Edinburgh. James, the son of the deposed King James VII, arrives from France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355668843#July–September", "title": "1715", "revid": 1355668843, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Two regular companies of field artillery, each 100 men strong, are raised at Woolwich, by Royal Warrant of King George I of Great Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#April–June", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 (November 29, O.S.) - King George I of Great Britain banishes his son and daughter-in-law, George, Prince of Wales and Caroline of Ansbach, from the royal household after the Prince threatens the King's personal assistant, the Duke of Newcastle, the royal Lord Chamberlain. The altercation takes place at the baptismal ceremony for the Prince's newborn son, George William.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366802832#October–December", "title": "1717", "revid": 1366802832, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, brings the Bangorian Controversy within the Church of England into the open by delivering a sermon to, and supposedly at the request of, King George I of Great Britain, on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ with the text \"My kingdom is not of this world\" (John 18:36), concluding there is no Biblical justification for church government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366802832#January–March", "title": "1717", "revid": 1366802832, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1717, "year_label": "1717 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – King George I of Great Britain issues the \"Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates in the West Indies\", an offer of amnesty to pirates, declaring that any pirates who surrender themselves to the government of Britain or one of its overseas territories, on or before September 5, 1718, \"shall have Our Gracious Pardon of and for his or their Piracy or Piracies\" committed before January 5, 1718. The amnesty is later extended to July 1, 1719.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366802832#July–September", "title": "1717", "revid": 1366802832, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – Francis Atterbury, Anglican Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, is arrested in his deanery and confined in the Tower of London for treason, accused of leading the Jacobite \"Atterbury Plot\" in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart with the aim of overthrowing the House of Hanover and King George I of Great Britain and restoring the House of Stuart by installing Prince James as \"King James III\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#July–September", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle, queen consort of George I of Great Britain (b. 1666)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372345509#Deaths", "title": "1726", "revid": 1372345509, "section": "Deaths"}}]}