Regency era Regency era The Regency in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a period when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent. On the death of George III in 1820, the Prince Regent became George IV. The term Regency (or Regency era) can refer to various stretches of time; some are longer than the decade of the formal Regency which lasted from 1811–1820. The period from 1795 to 1837, which includes the latter part of the reign of George III and the reigns of his sons George
History of the British Virgin Islands year. It has been commented more than once that there are a paucity of texts which deal with the history of the Territory. The information in this article has been almost entirely composed from the following sources. For convenience, the primary sources that these texts rely upon are not cited. History of the British Virgin Islands The History of the British Virgin Islands is usually, for convenience, broken up into five separate periods: These time periods are used for convenience only. There appears to be an uncertain period of time from when the last Arawak left what would later be