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Facts

Also Known As Hannover
Date 1692 - 1945

Related Topics and References

Topics

Major Events

Battle of Blenheim; War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Spanish Succession
Seven Years' War: Battle of Zorndorf
Seven Years’ War
Second Northern War
War of the Austrian Succession
Schleswig-Holstein after the Seven Weeks' War, 1866
Seven Weeks’ War
Battle of Fontenoy
Treaty of Paris
Erfurt Union Parliament

Related Places

Germany
Germany
Holy Roman Empire in 800
Holy Roman Empire
historical empire, Europe
Unification of Germany by Prussia
Prussia
region, Europe

Key People

George III
George III
king of Great Britain
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
George IV
George IV
king of United Kingdom
George II
George II
king of Great Britain
George I
George I
king of Great Britain
William IV, detail from a painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William IV
king of Great Britain
Rudolf von Bennigsen
German politician
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Ernest Augustus
Ernest Augustus
king of Hanover
Eckermann, engraving after a drawing by Karl Eckermann, 1854
Johann Peter Eckermann
German writer
Ernest Augustus
pretender to Hanoverian throne
Ernest Augustus
elector of Hanover
The baron surprising artillerymen by arriving mounted on a cannonball, illustration from a 19th-century edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe.
Baron Münchhausen
Hanoverian storyteller
Agostino Steffani
Italian composer
George V
king of Hanover
Georg Böhm
German composer
John Closterman
German artist