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Sep 30, 2023 · Summary. Following the death of the childless Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1603, her cousin James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne as James I, marking the Union of the Crowns. England and Scotland remained legally separate entities, each with its own parliament, but shared a monarch.
In 1707, the Acts of Union received their Royal assent, thereby abolishing the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland and their respective parliaments to create a unified Kingdom of Great Britain with a single Parliament of Great Britain.
The new Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, was determined Britain would remain a great power and maintain its colonial empire despite the economic constraints of post-war Britain. At the Potsdam conference in July 1945, the Allied powers decided that South East Asia Command, under the command of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, would be ...
With defeat by the United States, France and Spain in the War of American Independence, Great Britain lost its 13 American colonies and rebuilt a Second British Empire based in Asia and Africa. As a result, British culture, and its technological, political, constitutional, and linguistic influence, became worldwide.
Aug 10, 2018 · A chronology of key events: 1801 - United Kingdom formed by union of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. 1815 - Role in defeating Napoleon's French Empire leads to Britain becoming...
Feb 17, 2011 · Disunion. The formation of any early modern state was achieved usually by absorption or by conquest. England had absorbed Wales and Cornwall by 1543, through parliamentary incorporation, political...
The victory of the Labour party in the British general election of July 1945 was preeminently a triumph of Left over Right. Labour won 393 seats, while the Conservatives, despite the prestige associated with their wartime leader Winston Churchill, won only 213.
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