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Hace 4 días · United Kingdom. The Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701 excluded non-Protestants from inheriting the throne of Great Britain, making Sophia of Hanover, a born princess of the House of Palatinate-Simmern, the heir presumptive upon Anne's death.
Hace 5 días · The woman selected to be his wife, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, had been raised in the more intellectual and artistic atmosphere of Weimar, which gave its citizens greater participation in politics and limited the powers of its rulers through a constitution; Augusta was well known across Europe for her liberal views.
Hace 4 días · The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments that support members of the British royal family. Many members of the royal family who undertake public duties have separate households.
Hace 5 días · The part of the parish north of the East India Dock Road was commonly known as Poplar Fields until it was renamed Poplar New Town in the 1830s. In the early nineteenth century the land was largely given over to market gardening and pasture, (fn. 2) apart from a potash manufactory between Upper North Street and the 'common sewer' which drained ...
Hace 4 días · United Kingdom - Ancient History, Celts, Romans: Archaeologists working in Norfolk in the early 21st century discovered stone tools that suggest the presence of humans in Britain from about 800,000 to 1 million years ago. These startling discoveries underlined the extent to which archaeological research is responsible for any ...