Hanover – Hanover Area YMCA

The 18th Century and the House of Hanover

Sophia of Hanover became the heiress presumptive to the British throne in 1701, at the age of 71, when the Act of Settlement named her and her Protestant heirs as the successors to Queen Anne. Born in 1630 and granddaughter of King James I, her designation secured a firmly Protestant succession for England and Ireland. Her successor: Because Sophia died in June 1714, just weeks before Queen Anne, her son, Elector Georg Ludwig of Hanover, became the next heir. Upon Anne’s death in August 1714, he

Hanover, Pennsylvania: History, Culture, and a YouTube Video

Hanover's homicides: 6 slayings from the 18th, 19th centuries that are still shocking today