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1 day ago · The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
2 days ago · The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in ...
2 days ago · In 1927, the United Kingdom changed its name to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, while the monarch's style for the next twenty years became "of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India".
5 days ago · The formal political union of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland occurred in 1801. However, in 1922, most of Ireland gained independence, and the name “United Kingdom” was retained, becoming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. What is the difference between the UK and Great Britain?
3 days ago · Political unity in England was established under the Wessex kings in the 10th century, however, and reforms of the church took place. In the 11th century the Norman Conquest of England (1066) united England more closely with the culture of Latin Europe.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · Toleration Act, (May 24, 1689), act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists). It was one of a series of measures that firmly established the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) in England.
5 days ago · Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–96) As the Spanish Armada approached England’s shores on the afternoon of July 19, 1588, Francis Drake coolly finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe. That’s the tale, anyway.
