User:Lord Cornwallis/Hanoverian Succession (1714)
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The Hanoverian Succession occurred in 1714 when George I, the Elector of Hanover, succeeded to the thrones of Britain and Ireland following the death of Queen Anne. It marked the end of the Stuart era and the beginning of the Georgian era which would last until 1837. This was in line with the Act of Settlement 1701 which had established a Protestant succession to the childless Anne.
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George's mother Sophia of Hanover, who died in earlier that year, had been the prospective heir to the throne through her descent from James I. Fifty others with closer claims to the thrones were barred as Catholics. These included James Francis Edward Stuart, the son of the deposed James II and Anne's half-brother, who was an exile in France and the leader of the Jacobite movement.
George's coronation took place on 20 October at Westminster Abbey. Coronation riots took place across the country. The general election beginning in January 1715, produced a landslide for the governing Whigs who supported the Hanoverian monarchy. A Jacobite rising in Scotland was defeated by government forces. In 1727 George I was succeeded by his son George II.