King <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwMg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a> succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain" id="mwMw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George II of Great Britain">George II</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_25#cite_note-1" id="mwNA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwNQ">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCak"><a class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/10046/page/1/data.pdf#view=Fit&amp;toolbar=1" id="mwCao" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Published by authority"</a> <span class="cs1-format" id="mwCas">(PDF)</span>. <i id="mwCaw">The London Gazette</i>. No.<span id="mwCa0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>10046. October 1760.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwCa4" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&amp;rft.atitle=Published+by+authority&amp;rft.issue=10046&amp;rft.date=1760-10&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F10046%2Fpage%2F1%2Fdata.pdf%23view%3DFit%26toolbar%3D1&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+25"></span></span>