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* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.
They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos ’ first wife.
This oath was imposed under William III, George I and George III.
File: National-Debt-Gillray. jpeg | In a 1786 James Gillray caricature, the plentiful money bags handed to King George III are contrasted with the beggar whose legs and arms were amputated, in the left corner
It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".
Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.
The college gained its charter by grant of King George III.
This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.
King George III addressed the Houses of Parliament on 20 November with the words:
After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.
Included in the Museum & Gallery collection are seven very large canvases, part of a series by Benjamin West painted for George III, called " The Progress of Revealed Religion ," which are displayed in the War Memorial Chapel.
In 2000, following a media uproar prompted by the visit of presidential candidate George W. Bush to the university, Bob Jones III abruptly dropped the interracial dating rule, announcing the change on CNN's " Larry King Live ".
( Later, Bob Jones III denounced Reagan as " a traitor to God's people " for choosing George H. W.
Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.
Their most famous coach was the Concord Coach, modeled after the coronation coach of King George III.
The Charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of George III of the United Kingdom | King George III of Great Britain.
The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

George and enriched
The cultural life of the town is enriched by the Fair of St. George in April, the Klidonas festival on St. John's Day ( after the summer solstice ) and the Sardine Night in late August.

George and gardens
George V had substantial improvements done during the 1910s and 1920s, including formal gardens to the south of the castle.
The Conservatives also attacked Lloyd George as lacking any executive accountability as Prime Minister, claiming that he never turned up to Cabinet meetings and banished some government departments to the gardens of 10 Downing Street.
* The Palazzo Ducale, famous residence of the Gonzaga family, made up of a number of buildings, courtyards and gardens gathered around the Palazzo del Capitano, the Magna Domus, and the Castle of St. George.
In order to enlarge the royal gardens of Hanover, the Wallmoden palace and the Wallmoden garden 1817 were sold to George III, who had been King of Hanover since 1814.
* Hartekamp: Heemstede summer home of George Clifford, who hired Linnaeus to write his ' Hortus Cliffortianus ', a detailed catalogue of the plant specimens in the herbarium and gardens of Hartecamp.
George Clifford's house is closed to the public, but the surrounding gardens are used as a campus and are open to visitors.
Other artists who were commissioned to record the appearance of the gardens were England's first landscape painter George Lambert ( 1700 – 1765 ), the French painter Jacques Rigaud ( 1681 – 1754 ) and the cartographer John Rocque ( 1709 – 1762 ) who produced an engraved survey of Chiswick in 1736 showing the Villa and many of its garden buildings.
He remodelled Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland ( 1844 – 48 ) in Scots Baronial Style for George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland for whom he had remodelled Trentham Hall, due to a fire in the early 20th century little of Barry's interiors survive at Dunrobin, the gardens with their fountains and parterres are also by Barry.
Dodge reviewed George Washington's writings about the estate, visited other Colonial-era gardens, and traveled to England to see gardens there dating from the Georgian period.
For a long time, Philadelphus coronarius was the only mock-orange of gardens, though some adventurous Americans grew the native P. inodorus that Mark Catesby had discovered growing on the banks of the Savannah River ; it appeared in Lady Skipwith's garden lists and George Washington ordered some from Bartram in 1792.
The site is made up of a Victorian mansion called Leckhampton House and the grade-II listed George Thomson Building, as well as five substantial detached houses on Cranmer Road, one house on Selwyn Gardens, and two houses on Barton Road ; all of which back on to communal gardens and constitute a single site.
In 1798 the house was sold to George Belasise, Lord Bolingbroke and his wife Isabella ; the new owners established an English boxwood maze that still stands today and made extensive additions to the principal outbuildings of the property, established or improved a large hot house, and developed the gardens, introducing rare shrubs and trees to the grounds, and possibly laying out the grounds west of the mansion.
George Anthony Legh Keck had the arboretum planted in the gardens which were abandoned from the 1970s until 1995 when Bank Hall Action Group cleared the grounds.
All Saints ChurchWoodside is made up of a small southern triangle of residential roads, large gardens and cricket ground but includes a Manor House, church-led community hall and All Saints, Lymington, built in 1909 by W. H. Romaine-Walker, architect of Danesfield House, Moreton Hall and the Tate Gallery extension and student of High Victorian architect George Edmund Street.
A Buddha in the gardens of the Museum In 1904, some leading citizens of Bombay decided to provide a museum to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales, the future King George V. On June 22, 1904, the committee passed a resolution saying, " The building should have a handsome and noble structure befitting the site selected, and in keeping with the best style of local architecture ".
Constantin Șerban financed the building of the Orthodox Saint George Church, completed in 1656 ; it was accompanied by a since-lost palace and adjacent gardens.
By the time the antiquary John Stow wrote his Survey, the Tabard was one among a crowd of inns that lined the thoroughfare that led south from London Bridge towards Canterbury and Dover, " many fair inns, for receipt of travellers, by these signs: the Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queen's Head, Tabard, George, Hart, King's Head " & c. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries " the Tabard of the Monastery of Hyde, and the Abbot's Place, with the stable and gardens thereunto belonging " were sold to John and Thomas Master.
* Publication of Hortus Cliffortianus, a detailed description by Linnaeus of George Clifford's gardens at Hartekamp, Netherlands, including the raising of exotic plants such as bananas in a greenhouse.
During the Otago Gold Rush in the 1860s pleasure gardens were established at Vauxhall ; George Grey Russell built his house at Glenfalloch and William Larnach acquired the land for his big house at Pukehiki, ' Larnach Castle '.
George Wise, a prominent local Protestant leader, had been imprisoned for refusing to be bound over to keep the peace following disturbances at meetings held in public squares and gardens.
There are several Kentucky Coffee trees at Mount Vernon, in the gardens along the path leading up to the house of George Washington.
The Americans shelled Fort George for two days with most shells falling harmlessly in vegetable gardens around the fort.
Within the discipline of historical archaeology, specifically within the United States, landscape archaeology initially gained prominence with efforts to preserve the homes and gardens of prominent North American figures ( see George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello ), the reconstruction of early colonial settlements ( see Colonial Williamsburg ) and the analysis of gardens ( see Annapolis ).

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