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- 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.
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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 ...
Feb 17, 2011 · But the estates, like the Irish parliament, were forced by Oliver Cromwell into an unwanted union with England from 1652 until the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. The Jacobites...
The Act of Union that created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came into effect on January 1, 1801. This union remained in place until the recognition of the Irish Free State—excluding six of the counties of the northern province of Ulster —by the Anglo-Irish treaty concluded on December 6, 1921, following the Irish War of ...
- England Annexes Wales, Fails to Conquer Scotland
- England and Scotland Form Union as 'Great Britain'
- Great Britain Forms Union with Ireland, Then Southern Ireland Leaves
- Nationalism Rises
The Kingdom of England, formed in 927, gained the first U.K. state other than itself through invasion. In the late 13th century, King Edward I conquered the western Principality of Wales, claiming it as a territory of England. Next, he invaded the northern Kingdom of Scotland, kicking off the First War of Scottish Independence (that’s the one in Br...
When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, the next person in line to the throne was her cousin, King James VI of Scotland. Now, he gained a second name: King James I of England. Even though Scotland and England shared the same king, they were still two politically separate kingdoms, each with its own parliament. Over the next century, there were several...
Remember how King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of England? Well, he was actually King James I of Ireland, too. Back in the 1540s, Ireland become a dependent kingdom of England, and the 1542 Crown of Ireland Act mandated that the king of England was now also the king of Ireland. The first person to hold both titles was Henry VIII. The ...
After World War II, there was an increase in nationalism in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This took the form of activism, violent conflict and the formation of political parties that emphasized independence from the U.K. In December 2019, discussions about Scottish independence and Irish reunification increased after an election ensured Con...
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On 1 January 1801, Great Britain and Ireland joined to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Act of Union 1800 was passed in both the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland, dominated by the Protestant Ascendancy and lacking representation of the country's Roman Catholic population.
Act of Union, (Jan. 1, 1801), legislative agreement uniting Great Britain (England and Scotland) and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 brought the Irish question forcibly to the attention of the British Cabinet; and William Pitt.
The Act of Union 1800 added the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The first decades were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
