The Lee Resolution also known as "The Resolution for Independence" was the formal assertion passed by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 resolving that the Thirteen Colonies (the United Colonies) were "free and independent States" and separate from the British Empire. This created what became the United States of America and news of the act was published that evening in The Pennsylvania Evening Post. The following day in The Pennsylvania Gazette. The Declaration of Independence which officially announced and explained the case for independence was approved two days later on July 4, 1776—wiki

George III reigned during much of the Georgian and Regency eras