It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover — George 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.

Sophia of the Palatinate ( commonly referred to as Sophia of Hanover ; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 ) was the Electress of Hanover from 1692 to 1698.

In June 1714, Sophia was walking in the gardens of Herrenhausen when she ran to shelter from a sudden downpour of rain and collapsed and died, aged 83.

Had Anne died before June 1714, Sophia would have been the oldest person to ascend to the British throne.

* 23 January 1698 – 8 June 1714: Her Most Serene Highness The Dowager Electress of Hanover

* June 18 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( b. 1714 )

* June 24 – Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1714 )

* June 24 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist ( b. 1714 )

George I ( George Louis ; ; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727 ) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( Hanover ) in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698.

He returned to England and to influence under the House of Hanover with the accession of George I to the British throne in 1714, but following a series of strokes in later age his health gradually deteriorated, and he died on 16 June 1722 ( O. S.

# Sophia, Electress of Hanover ( 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 ); married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, had issue including King George I of Great Britain

* John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby ( 13 June 1711 – 23 September 1714 )

* June 30-Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French writer and painter ( born 1714 )

M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714, and catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764.

Matthew Henry ( 18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714 ) was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister.

Two years later ( 22 June 1714 ), he died suddenly of apoplexy at the Queen's Aid House ( 41 High Street ) in Nantwich while on a journey from Chester to London.

Joseph I (,, 6 June 1714 – 24 February 1777 ), " the Reformer " (), was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 31 July 1750 until his death.

* 6 June 1714 – 29 October 1714 His Royal Highness the Most Serene Infante Joseph of Portugal

Matthew Thornton ( 1714 – June 24, 1803 ), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.

In February 1714, the postal service started biweekly runs from St. Petersburg to Riga ; in June it started runs from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

In November 1712 he was appointed ambassador to France and then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, returning to England in June 1714.

* 27 September 1714 – 11 June 1727: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne

César-François Cassini de Thury ( 17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784 ), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.

On 16 or 17 June 1900, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager held a mass audience for high officials to hear their opinions of whether the strategy towards the Boxers should be to pacify them or to suppress them.

On 19 June, the Empress Dowager notified the legations that the diplomats and other foreigners should depart Beijing under escort of the Chinese army within 24 hours.

On June 21, Empress Dowager Cixi declared war against all foreign powers.

Princess Alice apparently did not wish to be known as a Dowager Duchess and so followed the example of her late sister-in-law, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, following the marriage of her elder son in June 1961.

Just before the current Duke of Kent's wedding in June 1961 to Katharine Worsley, she announced that she wished to be known as HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent instead of HRH The Dowager Duchess of Kent, a change in traditional style that was granted by her niece, Queen Elizabeth II.

* 8 June 1716 – 18 February 1743: Her Serene Highness The Dowager Electress of the Rhine

In May 1515 he married Mary Tudor, Queen Dowager of France ( 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533 ).

# Elizabeth, now Betty Suenson-Taylor, Lady Grantchester, or The Dowager Lady Grantchester ( b. June 1925 ) who married on 12 April 1947 Kenneth Bent Suenson-Taylor, 2nd Baron Grantchester ( 1921 – 1995 ), and had issue including the present Lord Grantchester.

* 9 June 1701 – 8 December 1722 Her Royal Highness the Dowager Duchess of Orléans.

** Primary spouse: Wanzhen ( 婉貞 ; 13 September 1841-19 June 1896 ), from the Yehenara clan, younger sister of Empress Dowager Cixi.

Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl ( 17 June 1814 – 22 May 1897 ), born Anne Home-Drummond and known as The Lady Glenlyon between 1839 and 1846, as The Duchess of Atholl between 1846 and 1864 and as The Dowager Duchess of Atholl between 1864 and 1897, was a Scottish courtier and close friend of Queen Victoria.

While initially successful, the young emperor along with the Empress Dowager led a Khitan cavalry force and defeated the Song forces at the Battle of the Qigou Pass in June.

* June 8 – Electress Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain ( b. 1630 )

In June 1717, Cosimo declared his wish that the House of Este should succeed the Electress.

* 29 April 1691 – 8 June 1716: Her Serene Highness The Electress of the Rhine

In addition, the Electress suffered three miscarriages: in June 1661, March 1664 and 1674.

Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, and many more.

* June 6 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.

* June 26 – Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer ( d. 1708 )

Frege married Margarete Katharina Sophia Anna Lieseberg ( 15 February 1856-25 June 1904 ) on March 14, 1887.

In June 1705, Queen Sophia Charlotte's nephew, George Augustus, the electoral prince of Hanover, visited the Ansbach court, supposedly " incognito ", to inspect Caroline, as his father the Elector did not want his son to enter into a loveless arranged marriage as he himself had.

# Sophia Stuart ( 22 June 1606 – 23 June 1606 ).

He visited France, while in Paris he spent several days at the Musée du Louvre ; Italy, in Rome he sketched, antiquities sculptures and paintings at the Vatican Museums and other galleries, then on to Naples and Pompeii, Bari then to Corfu ; while in Italy Barry had met Charles Lock Eastlake, an architect Mr Kinnaird and a Mr Johnson ( later a professor at Haileybury and Imperial Service College ) with these gentlemen he visited Greece, where their itinerary covered Athens which they left on 25 June 1818, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Aegina, then the Cyclades, including Delos to Smyrna and Turkey where Barry greatly admired the magnificence of Hagia Sophia, from Constantinople he visited the Troad, Assos, Pergamon and back to Smyrna.

His first wife died on 20 June 1743 at Hanover, and in April 1744 he married Lady Sophia Fermor, daughter of Lord Pomfret and Henrietta Louisa Fermor — a fashionable beauty and " reigning toast " of London society, who was younger than his daughters.

* Hester Sophia ( 21 June 1778-25 April 1783 )

# Sophia ( June 1607 ).

* Sophia Naryshkina ( 1808-18 June 1824 ).

The marriage took place on 5 June 830, in Hagia Sophia.

Three Orthodox synods ruled against him and in Palamas's favor ( two " Councils of Sophia " in June and August 1341, and a " Council of Blachernae " in 1351 ).

Princess Hedvig Sophia Augusta of Sweden ( 26 June 1681 – 22 December 1708 ) was a Swedish princess and a Duchess Consort of Holstein-Gottorp, the eldest child of King Charles XI of Sweden, and his spouse Queen Ulrica Eleanor.

Gage's son Thomas Clarkson Gage and his wife Sophia had a daughter named Dorothy Louise Gage, who was born in Bloomington, IL, on June 11, 1898 and died just five months later on November 11, 1898.

Her paternal grandparents were General John Henry Hammond ( June 30, 1833 – April 30, 1890 ), who served as chief of staff for William Tecumseh Sherman during the Vicksburg Campaign, and Sophia Vernon Wolfe ( 1842 – May 20, 1923 ), daughter of Nathaniel Wolfe, a lawyer and legislator from Louisville.

He married secondly Sophia Bentinck ( died 5 June 1741 ) on 24 March 1729, a daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland and his second wife Jane Martha Temple.