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    5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by...
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    Spencer Perceval (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and barrister who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until...
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    John Bellingham (category Spencer Perceval)
    English merchant and perpetrator of the 1812 murder of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated. Bellingham's early life is largely...
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    list of sitting members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (MPs) who died by assassination or other culpable homicide. Spencer Perceval is the...
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    1812, four months after the Earl of Liverpool succeeded to the premiership following the assassination of Spencer Perceval. The new Parliament was summoned...
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  • Petersburg, Russian Empire Assassination of Spencer Perceval on May 11, 1812, House of Commons, Westminster, United Kingdom Assassination of Ioannis Kapodistrias...
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    Jane Perceval (née Wilson; 1769–1844), later known as "Lady Carr" after her second marriage, was the wife of Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United...
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    over a month of deadly rioting in the city. Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated in London on 11 May and Lord Liverpool came to power. He wanted...
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    Liverpool ministry (category Ministries of George III)
    leadership of Lord Liverpool from 1812 to 1827. He was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by the Prince Regent after the assassination of Spencer Perceval...
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    List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by education Assassination of Spencer Perceval...
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    Regency era (category History of the United Kingdom by period)
    1827 Assassination of Spencer Perceval, 1812 The Trial of Queen Caroline by George Hayter, 1823 The pillory at Charing Cross, Ackermann's Microcosm of London...
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    prince regent. It dissolved with the assassination of Perceval in May 1812—the first and only assassination of a British prime minister. Arbuthnot served...
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  • of the War of 1812: 200 Years of Debate," Journal of Military History (Jan 2013) 77#1 pp 273–293 Tucker, Spencer C., ed. (2011). "The Encyclopedia of...
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    JSTOR 2626775. S2CID 57572213. M. Gillen (1972). Assassination of the Prime Minister: the shocking death of Spencer Perceval. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-97881-3...
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    Peninsular War. In 1810, he was made a colonel of militia. Following the assassination of Spencer Perceval on 11 May 1812, the Cabinet proposed Liverpool...
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  • of the mental health advocacy movement. Perceval was born into the ruling elite of the United Kingdom in 1803. His father Spencer Perceval, a son of the...
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  • Assassinations which took place on the continent of Europe include the following. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the...
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  • War hawk (redirect from War Hawks of 1812)
    ongoing ones instead of attempting to solve problems through dialogue or other nonviolent methods. Hawkish individuals are the opposite of war doves, who advocate...
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    Earl of Egmont was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1733 for John Perceval, 1st Viscount Perceval. It became extinct with the death of the...
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    of Portland in favour of Spencer Perceval. He rejected overtures to serve as foreign secretary again because of Castlereagh's presence in Perceval's Cabinet...
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  • Orders in Council (1807) (category Law of the United Kingdom)
    a series of decrees, in the form of Orders in Council, issued by the British Privy Council during the Napoleonic Wars as part of a policy of commercial...
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    Chesapeake–Leopard affair (category War of 1812)
    New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-05847-5. OCLC 70291925. Tucker, Spencer; Reuter, Frank Theodore (1996). Injured honor: the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair...
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    one Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has ever been assassinatedSpencer Perceval on May 11, 1812. The most notable assassination victim within early...
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    Macon's Bill Number 2 (category War of 1812 legislation)
    revision of the original bill by Representative Nathaniel Macon, known as Macon's Bill Number 1. Macon's Bill Number 2 was the fourth in a series of embargo...
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    Little Belt affair (category War of 1812)
    the coast of North Carolina on the night of 16 May 1811 between the United States frigate USS President and the British sixth-rate sloop-of-war HMS Little...
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  • The Rule of 1756 or Rule of the War of 1756 was a policy of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that...
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  • Henry William Carr (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    of the assassinated prime minister Spencer Perceval. Born in Twickenham, where at the time his father ran a private school, he was the second son of the...
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    Non-Intercourse Act (1809) (category War of 1812 legislation)
    Act of March 1809 lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. Enacted in the last sixteen days of President...
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  • Andro Linklater (category Alumni of New College, Oxford)
    of books on American history, about which he was an eloquent speaker. Linklater's book Why Spencer Perceval Had To Die focuses on the assassination of...
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    1810. 'Theory of Dreams,' 2 vols., 1808, anonymous. 'Discourse at Bishopswearmouth', 1812, on the assassination of Spencer Perceval. 'The Connection...
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