Georgian era (following the Edwardian Era), and is sometimes still referred to as such; see Georgian Poetry." Georgian era The Georgian era is a period in British history from 1714 to , named after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV. The sub-period that is the Regency era is defined by the regency of George IV as Prince of Wales during the illness of his father George III. The definition of the Georgian era is often extended to include the relatively short reign of William IV, which ended with his death in 1837. The term "Georgian" is
Germany in the early modern period occurred in 1795–1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era. "Mediatisation" was the process of annexing the lands of one sovereign monarchy to another, often leaving the annexed some rights. "Secularisation" was the redistribution to secular states of the secular lands held by an ecclesiastical ruler such as a bishop or an abbot. The Empire was formally dissolved on 6 August 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (from 1804, Emperor Francis I of Austria) abdicated, following a military defeat by the French under Napoleon (see Treaty of Pressburg).