• Jimbo@pawb.social
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    27 days ago

    Oooh I read about the 1707 Acts of Union!

    I forgot all the details, but I read it

    Wasn’t there a first attempt to unite Scotland and Britain in the early 1500s or something?

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      27 days ago

      Kind of - a few monarchs ruled over Scotland and England, but the crowns were separate. Fairly common - known as a personal union.

      The 1707 Acts of Union made it so that the monarch over one country was automatically monarch over the other, so there would never be a ‘personal’ union again - the two kingdoms themselves were in union.

      A united kingdom, if you will :p