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George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) [a] was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
Magda Goebbels (1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning. [492] [493] Gongsun Zan (199 AD), Chinese general and warlord, setting himself and his family on fire [494] David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide [495]
After he died, Jacobites were said to have toasted in the mole's honour, calling it "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat". [15] [16] Hannah Twynnoy: 23 October 1703: The 33-year-old barmaid at the White Lion Inn was mauled to death by a tiger in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. She was the first person to be killed by a tiger in British ...
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
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The assassination of George I marked the end of his nearly 50-year reign, making it the longest in modern Greek history. Excluding Alexander I, who was a puppet king under Eleftherios Venizelos' influence, [81] and Paul I, the only monarch to reign uninterrupted from enthronement to natural death, [82] George I's successors all faced exile.
When it happened during the last scene of a 1975 “M*A*S*H” episode, it hit with the power of a real-life phone call in the middle of the night bearing bad news.
Died of a stroke: Robert II: House of Stuart (Scotland) 2 March 1316 1371–1390 19 April 1390 Died of old age aged 74. Robert III: c. 1340 1390–1406 4 April 1406 Death said to have been caused by the shock of hearing that his son James (later King James I of Scotland) had been captured by the English. Henry IV: House of Lancaster (England ...