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Dismissal

Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1717–1851Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1717

George I1717

London · Government / Whig Party Government

Secures an alliance of Britain & Holland against Russia after the dismissal of Walpole. Aids Sunderland & Stanhope in ousting Walpole

1792

William Pitt the Younger Chatham, 2nd1792

Government / Whig Party Government

Dismisses his Lord Chancellor for publicly dissociating from the "Sinking Fund"

1834

William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd13 November 1834

London · Government / Whig Party Government

Dismissed by William IV for proposing further Church reform

1851

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1851

Government / Whig Party Government

Dismissed for unauthorized approval of the coup in France by Napoleon III

Names involved

George IHenry John Temple Palmerston, 3rdWilliam Lamb Melbourne, 2ndWilliam Pitt the Younger Chatham, 2nd

Provenance

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