Europe · Reformation to revolution
Electorate of Hanover
drawn on the map 1709–1802
A Welf duchy (Braunschweig-Lüneburg) repeatedly partitioned among branches. The Calenberg line raised its principality to the Electorate of Hanover in 1692 (formally recognized 1708).
- Shown on the map
- 1709–1802
- Peak area
- 47k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A Welf duchy (Braunschweig-Lüneburg) repeatedly partitioned among branches. The Calenberg line raised its principality to the Electorate of Hanover in 1692 (formally recognized 1708). In 1714 its elector, George Louis, inherited the British throne as George I, beginning the personal union of Hanover and Great Britain (1714–1837), which ended when Victoria succeeded in Britain (women barred in Hanover by Salic law) and Ernest Augustus took Hanover. Hanover became a kingdom in 1814 and was annexed by Prussia in 1866.
Common questions
- What was the Electorate of Hanover?
- A Welf duchy (Braunschweig-Lüneburg) repeatedly partitioned among branches. The Calenberg line raised its principality to the Electorate of Hanover in 1692 (formally recognized 1708).
- When is the Electorate of Hanover shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Electorate of Hanover 1709–1802. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Electorate of Hanover?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Electorate of Hanover covered about 47,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, German History in Documents and Images, national institutions such as the Swiss Federal Council and the National Museum of Denmark, and the scholarship of Peter H. Wilson and Joachim Whaley on the Holy Roman Empire. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Electorate of Hanover en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electorate_of_Hanover
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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