Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)
40 dated entries naming Anne, Queen of Great Britain, drawn from 19 separate years between 1653 CE and 1744 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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17th century
- 1653April 2 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died 1708)source
- 1665February 6 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died 1714)source
- 16656 February – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (died 1714)source
- 168328 July – The Lady Anne, the King's niece and fourth in line of succession, marries Prince George of Denmark in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, London.source
- 168825 November – James's daughter Princess Anne, with the assistance of her favourite Sarah Churchill, flee the royal court at Whitehall and, with their husbands, declare for William.source
- 169219 February – Princess Anne leaves the court after quarrelling with her sister, Queen Mary.source
- 169513 January – Princess Anne returns to court to act as royal hostess.source
- 1698January 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.source
18th century
- 1701June 24 – The Act of Settlement 1701 is passed by the Parliament of England, to exclude the Catholic Stuarts from the British monarchy. Under its terms, King William III, childless, will be succeeded by Queen Mary II's sister Princess Anne and her descendants. If Anne should have no descendants, she will be succeeded by Sophia of Hanover and her descendants (hence the Hanoverian Succession in 1714).source
- 170124 June — the Act of Settlement 1701, by the Parliament of England, becomes law; the crown of Great Britain passes to Sophia, Electress of Hanover and her Protestant descendants on the death of Princess Anne, the heiress presumptive to the throne after her brother-in-law, King William III.source
- 1701June 24 – the Act of Settlement 1701, passed by the Parliament of England, becomes law. Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants are next in line to the throne following Anne, the heir apparent to her brother-in-law King William III, ensuring that no Catholic will inherit the throne.source
- 17028 March – Anne, daughter of King James II, comes to the throne of Great Britain. Since her only surviving son had died prior to her accession, there is no prospective Prince of Wales.source
- 17028 March – King William II of Scotland (William III of England and Ireland and Stadtholder of the Netherlands) dies in London following complications from a fall from his horse when it stumbles on a molehill and is succeeded by Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch on the English, Scottish and Irish thrones.source
- 1702March 19 (March 8 Old Style) – Princess Anne Stuart, daughter of the late King James II and younger sister of his successor, Mary II (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as William and Mary until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England." Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband, Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling the Hanoverian Succession. After the death of William, the States General of the Netherlands do not appoint a new stadtholder, and so the Dutch Republic becomes a true republic again, starting the Second Stadtholderless Period.source
- 1703Parliament of Ireland assembles on 21 September, the first under Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the first for five years.source
- 1705March 14 – Queen Anne gives royal assent to the Parliament of England's Alien Act 1705, setting a deadline of December 25, 1705, for Scotland's parliament to authorize negotiations for a Treaty of Union with England to create the Kingdom of Great Britain and threatening that unless Scotland agrees to negotiate terms for union and accepts the Hanoverian succession by December 25, there would be a ban on the import of all Scottish staple products into England and Scots would also lose the privileges of Englishmen under English law – thus endangering rights to any property they held in England.source
- 1705April 5 – Anne, Queen of England dissolves the English House of Commons that had been elected in 1702, and orders new elections.source
- 1706February – Regency Act (backdated to 1705) requires the senior officers of state to proclaim the next Protestant heir (at this time, Sophia of Hanover) as successor to the English throne on the death of Queen Anne.source
- 1707A new Succession to the Crown Act requires the senior officers of state to proclaim the next protestant heir as successor to the British throne on the death of Queen Anne, on pain of treason; and provides for the continuance of Parliament on the monarch’s death.source
- 1707December 24 – The first British Governor of Gibraltar, directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.source
- 1708March 11 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.source
- 170811 March – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.source
- 1708October 28 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1653)source
- 1710Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.source
- 1710April 19 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, meets the Four Mohawk Kings.source
- 171019 April – Queen Anne meets the Four Mohawk Kings in London.source
- 171025 November – following the general election, the fourth parliament of Queen Anne's reign is composed mainly of Tory MPs.source
- 1712March 30 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain administers the Royal touch (a ritual with the intent to cure illness) for the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson.source
- 171230 March – Queen Anne administers the Royal touch, a ritual with the intent to cure illness, for the last time; 300 scrofulous people are touched, the last of whom is Samuel Johnson.source
- 1713May 1 – As part of the Treaty of Utrecht, the Spanish Crown agrees the Asiento de Negros with Anne, Queen of Great Britain, granting a subsidiary of the British South Sea Company, the Real Asiento de Inglaterra, a 30-year monopoly in the supply of African slaves to colonial Spanish America.source
- 1713May 6 – The Parliament of Ireland is dissolved by Queen Anne and new elections are set.source
- 171414 April – Queen Anne performs the last touching for the "King's evil".source
- 171419 May – Queen Anne refuses to allow members of the House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.source
- 1714May 19 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, refuses to allow members of the House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.source
- 1714August 1 – Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain and Ireland, on the death of Queen Anne. Anne's death brings an end to the reign of the House of Stuart, in that her half-brother James Francis Edward Stuart, the eldest son of James II of England, has been ineligible for the British throne based on the Act of Settlement 1701 had barred members of the Roman Catholic church from becoming monarchs. George of Hanover, as great-grandson of James I of England and a second cousin to Anne, is deemed the eldest living Protestant descendant of James I.source
- 17141 August – George I becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of Anne.source
- 1714August 1 – George Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, succeeds his distant relative Queen Anne as King George I of Great Britain. This event becomes the catalyst to the Jacobite risings. Jacobite supporters of James Stuart as heir to the throne began to organise after Queen Anne died, ending the blood line of House of Stuart and resulting in the succession of George of Hanover.source
- 1714August 1 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1665)source
- 17141 August – Queen Anne (born 1665)source
- 1744October 18 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (born 1660)source