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William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III , William succeeded his elder brother George IV , becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover .
On the day of William IV's death, 20 June 1837, the line of succession to the British throne was: Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (born 1819), only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, George III's deceased fourth son; Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (born 1771), fifth son of George III
c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed to provide for the event that King William IV died while the next person in line to the throne was not yet aged 18. It provided for a regency until the new monarch reached the age of 18, and also would have enabled a posthumous child of King William IV to replace Queen Victoria on ...
In 1830, on the death of his elder brother, George IV, William acceded to the throne. He and Adelaide were crowned on 8 September 1831 at Westminster Abbey. William despised the ceremony and acted throughout, it is presumed deliberately, as if he was "a character in a comic opera", making a mockery of what he thought to be a ridiculous charade ...
Frederick William IV (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV.; 15 October 1795 [3] – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, was King of Prussia from 7 June 1840 until his death on 2 January 1861.
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) 15 April 1367 1399–1413 20 March 1413 Several years of ill health- some type of visible skin ailment. Leprosy is also rumoured to have been possible. Henry V
1066–1087), also known as William the Conqueror or William the Bastard; William II of England (c. 1056 –1100; r. 1087–1100), also known as William Rufus; William III of England (1650–1702; r. 1689–1702), also known as William II in Scotland and William of Orange; William IV (1765–1837; r. 1830–1837), King of the United Kingdom
The definition of the Georgian era is also often extended to include the relatively short reign of William IV, which ended with his death in 1837. The subperiod that is the Regency era is defined by the regency of George IV as Prince of Wales during the illness of his father George III. [ 2 ]