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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 reigned
It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of HanoverGeorge I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the United Kingdom — who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.
George Frederick reigned in his native Ansbach, Franconia and Jägerndorf, Upper Silesia since 1556 and, after the death of his cousin Albert Alcibiades in 1557, also in Kulmbach.
Edward died in 1910, to be succeeded by George V, who reigned 1910-36.
George I of Great Britain ( reigned 1714 to 1727 ) was the first British monarch to delegate some executive powers to a Prime Minister and a cabinet of the ministers, largely because he was also the monarch of Hanover in Germany and did not speak English fluently.
He predeceased his father George II, however, and upon the latter's death on 25 October 1760, the throne passed to Prince Frederick's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, who reigned as King George III from 1760 until 1820.
A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.
The town is named for King George III, who reigned at the time the island was claimed for Britain and garrisoned by the Admiralty in 1815.
Kings George I, II, and III had reigned as " King of Ireland "; after a constitutional change Georges III & IV had reigned as " King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
George II (, Geórgios Βʹ, Vasiléfs ton Ellínon ; 20 July 1890 1 April 1947 ) reigned as King of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.
Six British monarchs reigned during Princess Mary's lifetime: Queen Victoria ( her great-grandmother ), Edward VII ( her grandfather ), George V ( her father ), Edward VIII and George VI ( her brothers ) and Elizabeth II ( her niece ).
He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III, who reigned in both the United Kingdom and Hanover.
George II of Great Britain | King George II who reigned from 1727 to 1760.
* George V of Imereti ( reigned 1696 1698 )
* George I of Greece ( 1845 1913, reigned 1863 1913 )
* George II of Greece ( 1890 1947, reigned 1922 24, 1935 47 )

George and 1760
George III, elector ( ruler ) from 1760 to 1820, never once visited Hanover.
In fact, during the reigns of the final three joint rulers ( 1760 1837 ), there was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821.
* 1760 George III becomes King of Great Britain.
George II ( 1727 1760 ) occasionally presided at Cabinet meetings but his grandson, George III ( 1760 1820 ), is known to have attended only two during his 60 year reign.
As noted previously, George III ( 1760 1820 ) is known to have attended only two Cabinet meetings.
A crisis erupted over the writs of assistance on December 27, 1760 when the news of King George II's October 23 death arrived in Boston.
George II ( 1727 1760 ) enhanced the stability of the constitutional system, with a government run by Sir Robert Walpole during the period 1730-42.
The domestic political situation was altered dramatically when George II died in October 1760.
George II died on 25 October 1760, and was succeeded by his grandson, George III.
* November 10 King George II of Great Britain ( d. 1760 )
The Whigs took full control of the government in 1715, and remained totally dominant until King George III, coming to the throne in 1760, allowed Tories back in.
The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third: 1760 1860.
** HM King George II ( 1683 1760 )
He is the first of only five monarchs to reign in the Kingdom of England or its successor states for 50 years or more, the others being Edward III ( 1327 1377 ), George III ( 1760 1820 ), Victoria ( 1837 1901 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1952 present ).

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