Acts of Union 1707
Also known as Act of Union 1707
Acts of Parliament creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain
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The Acts of Union 1707 were laws passed by the English and Scottish parliaments that joined England and Scotland together into a single country called Great Britain. This union matters because it created the political foundation for what would eventually become the modern United Kingdom, fundamentally reshaping the map of Britain and how its nations governed themselves.
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- 1707-01-01
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- 1707-04-30
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- Acts of Union 1707
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The Acts of Union refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707, followed shortly thereafter by an equivalent act of the Parliament of England. They put into effect the international Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706, which politically joined the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into a single "political state" named Great Britain, with Queen Anne as its sovereign. The English and Scottish acts of ratification took effect on 1 May 1707, creating the new kingdom, with its parliament based in the Palace of Westminster.