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. The two countries had shared a monarch since the "personal" Union of the Crowns in 1603, when James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his cousin Elizabeth I to become (in ...

Events from the year 1707 in Great Britain, created on 1 May this year as a consequence of the 1706 Treaty of Union and its ratification by the 1707 Acts of Union. [1]

The Acts of Union, passed by the English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707, led to the creation of a united kingdom to be called “Great Britain” on 1 May of that year. The UK Parliament met for the first time in October 1707.

The first Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain was established in 1707 after the merger of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.

Act of Union, (May 1, 1707), treaty that effected the union of England and Scotland under the name of Great Britain. Since 1603 England and Scotland had been under the same monarchs.

Thus, the 1707 Act of Union, which went into effect on May 1, 1707, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain, was a winning deal on both sides of the border.

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In 1535, England and Wales were united as one kingdom, and in 1707, the Act of Union brought Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain. On September 18, 2014, the voters of Scotland went to the polls to decide whether or not to leave the UK and become an independent nation again.

The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 and 1707 by, respectively, the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland, to make effective the Treaty of Union which had been negotiated between the two countries.

Uniting the kingdoms of Scotland and England had been proposed for a hundred years before it actually happened in 1707. Suspicion and mistrust between the two countries had prevented the union throughout the 17th century.