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Vor 3 Tagen · For the functions of the Treasurer and the Board at various times, see Baxter, Treasury, 1-67; D. Gray, Spencer Perceval: The Evangelical Prime Minister (Manchester 1963), 318-20; J. R. Torrance, 'Sir George Harrison and the growth of bureaucracy in the early nineteenth century', Eng. Hist. Rev., lxxxiii (1968), 60; T. Heath, The ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Mai 1812 erschoss der bankrotte Liverpooler Kaufmann John Bellingham den britischen Premierminister Spencer Perceval in der Lobby des Parlamentsgebäudes. Bellingham hatte einige Jahre zuvor wohl zu Unrecht längere Zeit in Russland in Haft gesessen und hatte nach seiner Rückkehr nach England vergeblich versucht, von der britischen Regierung hierfür eine Entschädigung zu bekommen.
Vor 4 Tagen · Peel made his maiden speech at the start of the 1810 session, when he was chosen by prime minister Spencer Perceval to second the reply to the king's speech. His speech was a sensation, famously described by the Speaker, Charles Abbot, as "the best first speech since that of William Pitt".
Vor 3 Tagen · Britain’s Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament. The office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive.
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Vor einem Tag · Waterloo ... The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792 ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed. Legally, however, he and his successors held separate English and Scottish kingships until the Act of Union of 1707, when the two kingdoms were united as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Vor 3 Tagen · The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. [4] The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ...
