Acts of Union 1707

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. The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland which had been separate states before, with separate legislatures but with the same monarch into a single United Kingdom of Great Britain. At that time the Union Flag became the national flag.

For over a hundred years since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, the two had been in personal union  The Acts of Union took effect on 1 May 1707. 

 References 

 Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World. Three Rivers Press, 2001. 

Related pages

Parliament of the United Kingdom

 Other websites 
Act of Union 1707 , the UK Parliament
The Treaty of Union , the Scottish Parliament
Articles of Union 1707  at the Parliamentary Archives
Image of the Treaty of Union  courtesy of the National archives of Scotland, published by the Scottish Council on Archives
Union with England Act and Union with Scotland Act - Full original text 
Treaty of Union and the Darien Experiment, University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Library and Archives Canada

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