Queen of Great Britain, daughter of James II., when Duke of York, was born in 1664, and married to Prince George of Denmark in 1683, by whom she had several children, but survived them all. Upon the death of William III., March 8, 1702, she succeeded to the throne, and to a war with France, which was prosecuted under her reign by the great Duke of Marlborough, with more glory than profit to this nation. She effected the long wished-for union between England and Scotland, which took place May 1st, 1707; and dying August 1st, 1714, was succeeded by George Lewis Augustus Elector of Hanover, as the direct descendant from James I., by his daughter Elizabeth queen of Bohemia.

St ANN'S DAY, a festival of the Christian church, celebrated by the Latins on the 26th of July, but by the Greeks on the 9th of December. It is kept in honour of Anne, or Anna, mother of the Virgin Mary.