The Kingdom of Hanover was a German state in the north of the German lands, created at the Congress of Vienna, when the Electorate of Hanover, ruled by the British royal family, was raised to a kingdom. It remained in personal union with the United Kingdom until the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, as Hanoverian law excluded women from the succession, so the throne passed to her uncle, Ernest Augustus. The kingdom was home to the University of Gottingen, where the Gottingen Seven, a group of professors who protested against the abolition of the constitution, were dismissed. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Hanover sided with Austria, and after its defeat, Prussia annexed it.
Before and after
- 10 April 1814Battle of Toulouse
- 30 May 1814Birth of Mikhail Bakunin
- 30 May 1814Treaty of Paris
- from 6 September 1814 to 11 September 1814Battle of Plattsburgh
- from 12 October 1814 to 20 September 1866Kingdom of Hanover
- c. 1810sPublication of Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht
- 1815Congress of Vienna
- from 1815 to 1871Unification of Italy
- 1815William Smith publishes the first geological map of England and Wales
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