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When did George I inherit the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire?

  • 1682

  • 1698

  • 1714

  • 1727

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George I inherited the Electorate of Hanover in 1698 upon the death of his father, Duke George William. This inheritance made him a powerful ruler within the Holy Roman Empire, and he eventually became the first Hanoverian monarch of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714.
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