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The Acts of Union [d] refer to two acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of England in 1706, the other by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. They put into effect the International Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706, which politically joined the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into a single "political state" the self-styled Kingdom of Great Britain, with Queen Anne as ...
Two acts were passed in 1800 with the same long title: An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The short title of the act of the British Parliament is Union with Ireland Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67), assigned by the Short Titles Act 1896. The short title of the act of the Irish Parliament is Act of Union (Ireland) 1800 (40 Geo. 3. c.
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The Treaty of Union is the name usually now given to the treaty [a] which led to the creation of the new political state of Great Britain.The treaty united the Kingdom of England (which already included Wales) and the Kingdom of Scotland to be "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [2]
For acts passed up until the Act of Union 1707: List of acts of the Parliament of England; List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland; List of acts of the Parliament of Ireland; For acts passed from 1801 onwards: List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; For acts of the modern devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom:
Act of Union 1840, passed by the Parliament of the UK, joining Upper Canada and Lower Canada to form the Province of Canada South Africa Act 1909 , passed by the Parliament of the UK creating the Union of South Africa, sometimes referred to as the Act of Union
The British North America Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 35), [1] also known as the Act of Union 1840, (French: Acte d’Union) was approved by Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, in Montreal. [2] It abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to ...
Galloway's Plan of Union was a plan to politically unite Great Britain and its North American colonies. The plan was put forward by Loyalist Joseph Galloway in the First Continental Congress of 1774 but was rejected. Galloway was a Pennsylvania delegate who wanted to keep the Thirteen Colonies in the British Empire.