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On 30th September 1658 [his father] Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg and [his mother] Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Frederick Palatinate Simmern V Elector Palatine Rhine and [his grandmother] Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia. He the son of [his grandfather] George Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg and [his grandmother] Anne Eleonore Hesse Darmstadt Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg.
On 28th May 1660 King George I was born to [his father] Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg and [his mother] Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern.
On 21st November 1682 George Louis of Hanover and Sophia Dorothea of Celle were married. The marriage had been arranged by their respective fathers Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg and George Wilhelm Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg, and his mother Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern. She the illegitmate daughter of George Wilhelm Hanover Duke Brunswick-Lüneburg and Eleonore Esmier D'Olbreuse Duchess Brunswick-Lüneburg. He the son of Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg and Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern.
On 30th October 1683 [his son] King George II of Great Britain and Ireland was born to King George I and [his wife] Sophia Dorothea of Celle at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Lower Saxony. He married 22nd August 1705 Caroline Hohenzollern Queen Consort England and had issue.
Before 1685 [his brother-in-law] Frederick I King Prussia and [his sister] Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia were married. She the daughter of [his father] Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg and [his mother] Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern. He the son of Frederick William "Great Elector" Hohenzollern Elector Brandenburg and Luise Henriette Orange Nassau.
On 26th March 1687 [his daughter] Sophia Dorothea Hanover Queen Consort Prussia was born to King George I and [his wife] Sophia Dorothea of Celle. She married 28th November 1706 Frederick William "Soldier King" I King Prussia, son of Frederick I King Prussia and Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia, and had issue.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th July 1689. The Convention (or Parliament as some called it) sitting, exempt the Duke of Hanover from the succession to the crown, which they seem to confine to the present new King, his wife, and Princess Anne of Denmark, who is so monstrously swollen, that it is doubted whether her being thought with child may prove a TYMPANY only, so that the unhappy family of the Stuarts seems to be extinguishing; and then what government is likely to be next set up is unknown, whether regal and by election, or otherwise, the Republicans and Dissenters from the Church of England evidently looking that way.
In January 1692 [his illegitimate daughter] Anne aka Louise Sophia Schulenburg was born illegitimately to King George I and Melusine Schulenburg 1st Duchess Munster 1st Duchess Kendal.
On 19th December 1692 [his father] Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg was elected Elector Brunswick Lüneburg.
On 1st April 1693 [his illegitimate daughter] Petronilla Melusine Schulenburg Countess Chesterfield was born illegitimately to King George I and Melusine Schulenburg 1st Duchess Munster 1st Duchess Kendal. She married 5th September 1733 Philip Stanhope 4th Earl Chesterfield, son of Philip Stanhope 3rd Earl Chesterfield and Elizabeth Savile.
On 28th December 1694 the marriage of the future King George I and Sophia Dorothea of Celle was dissolved. Sophia Dorothea was named as the guilty party for "maliciously leaving her husband". She was forbidden to remarry or to see her children again; her name was removed from official documents, she was stripped of her title of Electoral Princess. She was imprisoned for life.
On 23rd January 1698 [his father] Ernest Augustus Hanover Elector Brunswick-Lüneburg died.
In 1701 King George I was appointed 509th Knight of the Garter by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland.
In 1701 [his illegitimate daughter] Margarethe Gertrud von Oeynhausen Schulenburg was born illegitimately to King George I and Melusine Schulenburg 1st Duchess Munster 1st Duchess Kendal.
On 18th January 1701 [his brother-in-law] Frederick I King Prussia was created I King Prussia. [his sister] Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia by marriage Queen Consort Prussia.
On 1st February 1705 [his sister] Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia died.
On 22nd August 1705 [his son] King George II of Great Britain and Ireland and [his daughter-in-law] Caroline Hohenzollern Queen Consort England were married. He the son of King George I and [his former wife] Sophia Dorothea of Celle.
On 28th November 1706 [his son-in-law] Frederick William "Soldier King" I King Prussia and [his daughter] Sophia Dorothea Hanover Queen Consort Prussia were married. She the daughter of King George I and [his former wife] Sophia Dorothea of Celle. He the son of [his former brother-in-law] Frederick I King Prussia and [his sister] Sophia Charlotte Hanover Queen Consort Prussia.
On 1st May 1714 Henry Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge was appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Elector of Hanover, the future King George I. He requested he be made an Earl but Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland declined his request.
On 8th June 1714 [his mother] Electress Sophia Palatinate Simmern died.
On 1st August 1714 Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland died at Kensington Palace. King George I succeeded I King Great Britain and Ireland.
On 18th September 1714 King George I arrived at Greenwich following his accession to the throne of the United Kingdom on the death of Queen Anne on 1st of August. There was apparently thick fog when the he made his way up the Thames accompanied by a flotilla of boats carrying his family and entourage including 18 cooks as well as his mistress, Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, and his half-sister [his sister] Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg. He landed at the water gates of the Sir Christopher Wren-designed Royal Hospital for Seamen, now known as the Old Royal Naval College, in Greenwich. When the waiting crowds cheered the disembarking king, it was a case of mistaken identity. In fact, they were cheering his son, [his son] George Augustus (and future King George II) and by the time the king actually disembarked, much of the crowd had already dissolved, leaving a much smaller gathering to welcome him.
On 20th October 1714 King George I was crowned I King Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Thomas Tenison.
Charles Fitzroy 2nd Duke Grafton was appointed Lord High Steward.
Willam Humphreys 1st Baronet officiated in his capacity of Lord Mayor of London, entertaining the King and his court at Guildhall
On 1st December 1714 Francis Eyles 1st Baronet was created 1st Baronet Eyles of London by King George I.
The 1715 Battle of Preston was the final action of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. It commenced on 9th November 1715 when Jacobite cavalry entered Preston, Lancashire. Royalist troops arrived in number over the next few days surrounding Preston forcing the Jacocobite surrender. 1463 were taken prisoner of which 463 were English. The Scottish prisoners included:
George Seton 5th Earl of Winton. The only prisoner to plead not guilty, sentenced to death, escaped from the Tower of London on 4th August 1716 around nine in the evening. Travelled to France then to Rome.
On 24th February 1716 William Gordon 6th Viscount Kenmure was beheaded on Tower Hill.
On 9th February 1716 William Maxwell 5th Earl Nithsale was sentenced to be executed on 24th February 1716. The night before his wife effected his escape from the Tower of London by exchanging his clothes with those of her maid. They travelled to Paris then to Rome where the court of James "Old Pretender" Stewart was.
James Radclyffe 3rd Earl Derwentwater was imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was examined by the Privy Council on 10th January 1716 and impeached on 19th January 1716. He pleaded guilty in the expectation of clemency. He was attainted and condemned to death. Attempts were made to procure his pardon. His wife Anna Maria Webb Countess Derwentwater, her sister Mary Webb [Note. Assumed to be her sister Mary], their aunt Anne Brudenell Duchess Richmond, Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland appealed to King George I in person without success.
On 24th February 1716 James Radclyffe 3rd Earl Derwentwater was beheaded on Tower Hill. Earl Derwentwater, Baronet Radclyffe of Derwentwater in Cumberland forfeit.
William Murray 2nd Lord Nairne was tried on 9th February 1716 for treason, found guilty, attainted, and condemned to death. He survived long enough to benefit from the Indemnity Act of 1717.
General Thomas Forster of Adderstone was attainted. He was imprisoned at Newgate Prison, London but escaped to France.
On 14th May 1716 Henry Oxburgh was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. He was buried at Church of St Gile's in the Fields. His head was spiked on Temple Bar.
The trials and sentences were overseen by the Lord High Steward William Cowper 1st Earl Cowper for which he subsequently received his Earldom.
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Between 22nd January 1715 and 9th March 1715 the 1715 General Election was held. The election had been caused by George I's succession. The Whig party, which supported George I, won an overwhelming majority.
John Rushout 4th Baronet was elected MP Malmesbury.
Leonard Smelt was elected MP Northallerton.
Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet was elected MP Thirsk.
George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter was elected MP Whitchurch.
On 26th January 1716 George Sackville aka Germain 1st Viscount Sackville was born to Lionel Cranfield Sackville 1st Duke Dorset and Elizabeth Colyear Duchess Dorset. His godfather King George I attended his baptism. He married 3rd September 1754 Diana Sambrooke and had issue.
On 29th June 1716 [his brother] Ernest Augustus Hanover 1st Duke of York and Albany was created 1st Duke York and Albany.
On 30th April 1718 [his brother] Ernest Augustus Hanover 1st Duke of York and Albany was appointed 530th Knight of the Garter by King George I.
In 1719 Peregrine Bertie 2nd Duke Ancaster and Kesteven was appointed Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King George I.
On 28th April 1719 Charles Montagu 1st Duke Manchester was created 1st Duke Manchester by King George I. Doddington Greville Duchess Manchester by marriage Duchess Manchester.
On 19th May 1719 Edward Rich 7th Earl Warwick 4th Earl Holland was appointed Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King George I.
In 1720 Wilfrid Lawson 3rd Baronet was appointed Groom of the Bedchamber to King George I which position he held until 1725.
In 1723. Michael Dahl was requested by King George I to paint the portrait of the two year old [his grandson] William Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Cumberland. Dahl's refusal, it being beneath his dignity, resulted in his not being appointed the new court painter, and not being knighted.
In 1726 [his illegitimate daughter] Margarethe Gertrud von Oeynhausen Schulenburg died.
On 13th November 1726 [his former wife] Sophia Dorothea of Celle died shortly before midnight. An autopsy revealed liver failure and gall bladder occlusion due to 60 gallstones. Her former husband King George I died seven months later.
Before 1727. Michael Dahl. Portrait of King George I.
On 11th June 1727 King George I died. [his son] King George II of Great Britain and Ireland succeeded II King Great Britain and Ireland. [his daughter-in-law] Caroline Hohenzollern Queen Consort England by marriage Queen Consort England.