Today 1st May, 1707: Act of union England Scotland

The Act of Union between England and Scotland Historic UK

1st May, 1707, England joined Scotland under the name of Great Britain.

The United Kingdom is commonly called, in Romanian, Great Britain, but this is a major mistake as the UK designates only England, Scotland and Wales. However, the United Kingdom should not be confused with the United Kingdom (before 1801; formed by the unification of the crowns of England and Scotland), nor with England - one of the constituent countries, the modern British state being the result of the union between the monarchies of Great Britain and Ireland.

England’s grievances would be addressed by a new Act of Union

After almost a century, in 1800, the parliament passed the so-called Union Law, by which the name of the country was changed again, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This enshrined the passage of Ireland under English control, a process that took place gradually between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. However, internal dissensions over the way Ireland was governed led to the proclamation of Ireland's independence in 1922, which retained a dominion status. The northern part (Northern Ireland) remained part of the United Kingdom, which changed the name of the state to its current form, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.





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