Date of formation of the United Kingdom After much debate the editors of the United Kingdom article seem to have settled on 1707 as being the foundation of the state I note with concern though that this date lacks any external referencing per official Wikipedia policy WP VERIFY But this article List of countries by formation dates claims that the UK was actually founded in 1603 again completely unreferenced Both articles can not be correct so which is it Please come to the party armed with some proper external refs because I am not sure if we can stomach yet another verbally diarrhetic Talk page splurge with largely consists of ad hominem attacks and statements of totally unsourced opinion