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BIRTH
Norfolk House, St. James's Square, London was where he was born -
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LIFE
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FATHER DIES
died unexpectedly from a lung injury, and George became heir apparent to the throne. He inherited one of his father's titles and became the Duke of Edinburgh. -
MARRIAGE
Married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, the King married Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, they met on their wedding day. -
REPLACEMENT
Whig ministry of the Duke of Newcastle was replaced with one led by the Scottish Tory Lord Bute. Bute's opponents worked against him by spreading the calumny that he was having an affair with the King's mother, and by exploiting anti-Scottish prejudices amongst the English. Many believed in the early years of his rule that george was a prejudice. -
GEORGE IV IS BORN
His first son is born and later becomes the hier to his throne -
AMERICAN WAR INDEPENDECE
The American Revolution began when armed conflict between British regulars and colonial militiamen broke out in New England.After a year of fighting, the colonies declared their independence from the Crown as "free and independent States" -
NEPOLEONIC FRANCE'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Beat napolian and nepoleonic france in the revolutionary war which lead to the defeat of Napoleon. -
GEORGE GETS SICK
SUFFERED FROM REOCCURENT MENTAL ILLNESES AND A BLOOD DISEASE PORPHYRIA. -
GETTING OLD
at the height of his popularity but already virtually blind with cataracts and in pain from rheumatism, George III became dangerously ill. In his view the malady had been triggered by the stress he suffered at the death of his youngest and favourite daughter, -
DEATH
He died a at Windsor, Berkshire
