State · 1714 – 1837

Personal union of Great Britain and Hanover

A state of 1714 – 1837 — 123 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.

Wikidata's English label: personal union of Great Britain and Hanover.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 123 years; 1714 – 1837
Rulers: 5; the head of state
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of head of state.

died in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
George I of Great Britain	1714 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
George II of Great Britain	1727 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record	child
George III	1760 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record	grandchild
George IV	1820 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record	child
William IV	1830 – 1837	7 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling

5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1714 – 1837. Median reign 7 years. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedRoyal coats of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (1714-1801) (both variants) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · GPinkerton

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood123 years
stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median7 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 26% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

coincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 123

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1702 – 1849, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1776, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2072263 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.