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George II of Great Britain

1683 - 1760

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George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain. The Act of Settlement 1701 and the Acts of Union 1707 positioned his grandmother Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants to inherit the British throne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George II of Great Britain has received more than 14,735,439 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). George II of Great Britain is the 571st most popular politician (down from 414th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Germany (down from 116th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Politician.

King George II of Great Britain was most famous for being the last British monarch to lead troops into battle.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George II of Great Britain ranks 571 out of 19,576. Before him are Eduard Shevardnadze, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Oscar II of Sweden, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Kim Dae-jung, and Lech Kaczyński. After him are Sneferu, Chaim Weizmann, Xanthippe, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Hassan II of Morocco, and Khosrow I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1683, George II of Great Britain ranks 4. Before him are Philip V of Spain, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Caroline of Ansbach. After him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, 6th Dalai Lama, Maria Anna of Austria, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Gottfried Silbermann, Christoph Graupner, and Edward Young. Among people deceased in 1760, George II of Great Britain ranks 1. After him are Baal Shem Tov, Anna Magdalena Bach, Maria Amalia of Saxony, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, Alaungpaya, Christoph Graupner, Adrien Manglard, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Andrija Kačić Miošić, and George Clifford III.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George II of Great Britain ranks 161 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Alfred Jodl (1890), Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926). After him are Pope Damasus II (1000), Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Johann Christian Bach (1735), Leopold Mozart (1719), and Alois Alzheimer (1864).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, George II of Great Britain ranks 44. Before him are Frederick William I of Prussia (1688), Friedrich Ebert (1871), Agrippina the Younger (15), Franz von Papen (1879), Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795), and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926). After him are Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (990), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Olaf Scholz (1958), Rudolf Höss (1901), and Frederick William II of Prussia (1744).

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