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    The Electorate of Hanover (German: Kurfürstentum Hannover or simply Kurhannover) was an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire located in northwestern Germany...
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    Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg to the status of an Electorate, known as the Electorate of Hanover. This elevation allowed the Electors of Hanover to participate...
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    Electorate of Hanover, and joined 38 other sovereign states in the German Confederation in June 1815. The kingdom was ruled by the House of Hanover,...
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  • Hanover (German: Hannover) is a territory that was at various times a principality within the Holy Roman Empire, an Electorate within the same, an independent...
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    Personal union of Great Britain and Hanover. History of Hanover Kingdom of Hanover Electorate of Hanover House of Hanover King of Hanover Hanoverian prince...
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    the Electorate was also known as the Electorate of Hanover or as Kurhannover. In 1814, it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Hanover. The Principality of Lüneburg...
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    of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorate of Hanover (1692–1814), the Kingdom of Hanover...
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    form as the Electorate of Hanover and the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and these would become the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Brunswick...
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  • Hanover, Germany Hannover Messe, the world's biggest industrial fair held each April on the Hanover Fairground Hanover (region) Electorate of Hanover...
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    of Welf in 1635, also known then as the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Hanoverians ascended to prominence with Hanover's elevation to an Electorate...
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    votes, the Elector of Bavaria six votes, the Elector of Hanover six votes, the King of Bohemia three votes, the Elector-Archbishop of Trier three votes...
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    Formed within months of the dissolution of the Electorate of Hanover in 1803, the Legion was constituted as a mixed corps by the end of the year. Although...
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    standing army of the Electorate of Hanover from the seventeenth century onwards. From 1692 to 1803 it acted in defence of the electorate. Following the...
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    May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from...
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    from the area of New Kent County called St. Peter's Parish. It was named for the Electorate of Hanover in Germany, because King George I of Great Britain...
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    1692. Their territory became the nucleus of the Electorate of Hanover, ruled in personal union with the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1714 onwards. The principality...
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  • supporters of the House of Hanover, the dynasty which ruled the United Kingdom from 1714 to 1901 things relating to; Electorate of Hanover Kingdom of Hanover Province...
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    Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (category People from the Electorate of Hanover)
    especially for his ballads. Hölty was born in the Electorate of Hanover in the village of Mariensee (today part of Neustadt am Rübenberge) where his father was...
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    was a boy from Hanover in northern Germany who was found in 1725 living wild in the woods near Hamelin (Electorate of Hanover), the town of the Pied Piper...
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    advanced into the Electorate of Hanover and neighbouring German states, following the Battle of Hastenbeck. French forces overran most of Hanover. This action...
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  • Invasion of Hanover in 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars saw a French army under Édouard Mortier invade and occupy the Electorate of Hanover in Northern...
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    The allies were defeated by the French army near Hamelin in the Electorate of Hanover. The French, who were allied with Austria, Russia, Sweden and Saxony...
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    dissolved in the German Mediatisation of 1803, when it was incorporated into the neighboring Electorate of Hanover. The see, the chapter, the convents and...
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    Hamelin (category Members of the Hanseatic League)
    border town of the Principality of Calenberg. In 1705, it became part of the newly created Electorate of Hanover when George Louis, Prince of Calenberg...
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    Regiment of Foot 30th Regiment of Foot 31st Regiment of Foot 33rd Regiment of Foot 34th Regiment of Foot 35th Regiment of Foot 37th Regiment of Foot 38th...
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    Johann Tobias Mayer (category People from the Electorate of Hanover)
    the Electorate of Hanover, was the first child of the astronomer Tobias Mayer and his wife Maria. The elder Mayer, a well-known Göttingen professor of geography...
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    Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the Principality, before France annexed it in 1810. In 1813 the Principality was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which...
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    In 1813, the Duchies of Bremen and Verden were restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which transformed into the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814. Even though...
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    (born Princess Sophia of the Palatinate; 14 October [O.S. 3 October] 1630 – 8 June [O.S. 28 May] 1714) was Electress of Hanover from 19 December 1692...
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    Great Britain and the Electorate of Hanover joined the coalition in 1714 for Hanover and in 1717 for Britain, and Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia...
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