On This Day In History . 25th October 1760 . King George II died . . ◼ By October 1760, George II was blind in one eye, & hard of hearing. On the morning of 25 October, he rose as usual at 6:00 am, drank a cup of hot chocolate, & went to his close stool, alone. After a few minutes, his valet heard a loud crash. He entered the room to find the king on the floor. The king was lifted into his bed, & Princess Amelia was sent for, but before she reached him, he was dead. . ◼ At the age of nearly 77, he had lived longer than any of his English predecessors. A post-mortem revealed that the right ventricle of the king’s heart had ruptured as the result of an incipient aortic aneurysm. . ◼ He was succeeded by his grandson George III, & was buried on 11 November in Westminster Abbey. He left instructions for the sides of his & his wife’s coffins to be removed so that their remains could mingle. . . Some facts; . ◼ George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain: he was born & brought up in northern Germany. . ◼ In 1707 his wife Caroline of Ansbach fell seriously ill with smallpox, & George caught the infection after staying by her side devotedly during her illness. They both recovered. . ◼ In 1708, George participated in the Battle of Oudenarde in the vanguard of the Hanoverian cavalry; his horse & a colonel immediately beside him were killed, but George survived unharmed. . ◼ George II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in October 1727. The composer George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write four new anthems for the coronation, including Zadok the Priest. . ◼ George II’s full style was “George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Archtreasurer & Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1760 #d25oct #KingofGreatBritain #GeorgeII #KingGeorgeII #HouseofHanover #Royalty #Royal #monarch #monarchy #History #BritishMonarchy #Thebritishmonarchy #historyfacts #instahistory #otd #RoyalHistory #HistoryFacts #georgian #OnThisDay #thisdayinhistory #Theking #greatbritain #kensingtonpalace #Britishhistory (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGxvgoFDUcK/?igshid=1bi5ka6cyfa32