• Events from the year 1722 in Great Britain. Monarch – George I Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig) 27 January – Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders...
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  • The 1722 British general election elected members to serve in the House of Commons of the 6th Parliament of Great Britain. This was the fifth such election...
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  • to the 314 constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1722, the 6th Parliament of Great Britain, and their replacements returned at subsequent...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1722. 1722 (MDCCXXII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and...
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    The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King's Colour, first Union Flag, Union Jack, and British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally...
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  • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people. Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey...
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    of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and...
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  • Events from the year 1722 in Scotland. Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas Solicitor General for Scotland...
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    August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector...
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  • involving the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its predecessor states (the Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of England, Kingdom...
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  • The Great Treaty of 1722 was a document signed in Albany, New York by leaders of the Five Nations of Iroquois, Province of New York, Colony of Virginia...
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    Atterbury Plot (category 1722 in Great Britain)
    Westminster, aimed at the restoration of the House of Stuart to the throne of Great Britain. It came some years after the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1715 and...
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    Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover...
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  • Events from the year 1727 in Great Britain. This year sees a change of monarch. Monarch – George I (until 11 June), George II (starting 11 June) Prime...
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    Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging...
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    1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into...
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  • Marlborough (died 1722) for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. Daniel Defoe's A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain begins publication...
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    The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament...
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  • Events from the year 1790 in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory) 1 January – the Oxford Canal is opened...
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    article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through...
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  • in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tory) 22 January – Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain....
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    Great Britain was one of the major participants in the Seven Years' War, which in fact lasted nine years, between 1754 and 1763. British involvement in...
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    the Parliament of Great Britain, which was in existence from 1707 to 1800 (inclusive). List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 List of...
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    of Great Britain (10 June 1711 (New Style) – 31 October 1786) was the second daughter of King George II of Great Britain and Queen Caroline. Born in Hanover...
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    acres often lived in terraced houses in town. For example, the Duke of Norfolk was seated at Arundel Castle in the country, while from 1722 his London house...
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  • Events from the year 1800 in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory) Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville January...
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  • Events from the year 1770 in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (Whig) (until 28 January); Frederick...
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    The eighth session of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 19 October 1721 until 7 March 1722. ? Middlesex and Hertfordshire Roads Act 1716...
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    not geographically part of Great Britain, may still be considered as having a place within British culture. Although British culture is a distinct entity...
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