Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland from the 1690s to the 1730s, could supposedly bend a horseshoe with ...

Installed as Elector in 1708. Sketch map of Hanover, c.1720, showing the relative locations of Hanover, Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück. Hanover acquired Bremen-Verden in ...

The German royal dynasty, the House of Hanover, became our royal family and gave us six British monarchs. When Queen Anne died in 1714, the German Elector George Louis of Hanover, being the ...

The first one got it from his grandfather, Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover. Remember — George I was a German import. Now we're into the one-offs, and the first is in the new prince's name.

He was the son of the first elector of Hanover, Ernest Augustus (1629–1698), and his wife Sophia who was a granddaughter of James I of England. He was heir through his father to the hereditary lay ...

He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover, who, unlike his two ...

Sir Andrew Fountaine first came to public notice when he accompanied Lord Macclesfield to carry the Act of Succession to the elector of Hanover in 1701. He was launched into the court circles of ...

Two Republican incumbents and one new Democrat secured spots on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners.

SKF, a Swedish-based global manufacturer of industrial bearings, announced the planned sale of the Hanover operations of the company, according to a release by the company. SKF's Hanover factory ...

Justice, a Democrat, will be returning to the school board after previously serving from 2018 to 2022. Merrick is a Democrat ...