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- "God Save The King" was a patriotic song first publicly performed in London’s Drury Lane Theatre, on September 28, 1745, which came to be known as the National Anthem at the beginning of the 19th century.
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History. The text first appeared in England in the late 1590s, with the publication of Shakespeare's Richard III (Act 4, Scene 1). Lady Anne says to Queen Elizabeth: "Were red-hot steel to sear me to the brains! Anointed let me be with deadly venom, And die ere men can say 'God save the Queen.'"
Aug 7, 2024 · "God Save The King" was a patriotic song first publicly performed in London’s Drury Lane Theatre, on September 28, 1745, which came to be known as the National Anthem at the beginning of the 19th century.
The phrase “God Save the King” occurs in several places in the earliest English translations of the Bible. An Order of the Fleet at Portsmouth for August 10th, 1544, laid down the watchword for the day as “God Save King Henry” and the counterword as “Long to Reign Over Us.”
'God Save The King' was a patriotic song first publicly performed in London in 1745, which came to be known as the National Anthem at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In September 1745 the 'Young Pretender' to the British Throne, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, defeated the army of King George II at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh.
Sep 12, 2024 · In the same year, “God Save the King” was performed in two London theatres, one the Drury Lane; and in the following year George Frideric Handel used it in his Occasional Oratorio, which dealt with the tribulations of the Jacobite Rebellion of ’45.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 12, 2022 · ‘God Save the King’ is one of the oldest national anthems in the world, first performed during the reign of King George II in the 18th century. The composer and writer are anonymous, and both the text and tune may date back to the 17th century.
May 4, 2023 · The earliest known publication of the work was in 1744, according to the Oxford Companion to Music, which notes that the song was the world's first national anthem. It all started on Sept. 28,...
