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22 de may. de 2024 · John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866. The third son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, Russell was educated ...
Hace 2 días · The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect 646 members to the House of Commons. The governing Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, won its third consecutive victory, with Blair becoming the second Labour leader after Harold Wilson to form three majority governments. However, its majority fell to 66 seats; the ...
Hace 3 días · British Allied victory. Coalition victory, Treaty of Fontainebleau, First Treaty of Paris. Bourbon Restoration; Napoleon's exile to Elba. Various territorial changes. Beginning of the Congress of Vienna. Hostilities resume with the return of Napoleon to power in 1815. Second Kandyan War. (1815) United Kingdom.
Hace 3 días · Traditionally, the Queen's titles are listed in the order in which the realms other than the United Kingdom (the original realm) first became Dominions—namely, Canada (1867), Australia (1901), and New Zealand (1907)—followed by the rest in the order in which the former colony became an independent realm: Jamaica (1962), The Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Papua New Guinea (1975), the ...
Hace 2 días · English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, [13] but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish.
23 de may. de 2024 · Largest settlement. Lerwick. Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom . The islands lie about 80 km (50 mi) to the northeast of Orkney, 170 km (110 mi) from mainland Scotland and 220 km (140 mi) west of Norway.
23 de may. de 2024 · The Brythonic Kingdom of Gwynedd was established in the 5th century, and it proved to be the most durable of these Brythonic states, surviving until the late 13th century. [13] Boundaries and names emerging from the 1st millennium AD onwards are still being used today to define towns and counties of the region. [41]
