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The 1652 Tender of Union was followed on 12 April 1654 by An Ordinance by the Protector for the Union of England and Scotland, creating the Commonwealth of England and Scotland. [13] It was ratified by the Second Protectorate Parliament on 26 June 1657, creating a single Parliament in Westminster, with 30 representatives each from Scotland and ...
Personal union, as Kingdom of Scotland, with the Principality of Orange and the Dutch Republic (1689–1702) during the reign of William II of Scotland. 1 : After 1707, see Great Britain above. After 1801, see United Kingdom below.
The flag of Great Britain, often referred to as the King's Colour, first Union Flag, [1] [2] Union Jack, and British flag, was used at sea from 1606 and more generally from 1707 to 1801. It was the first flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain. [3] [4] It is the precursor to the Union Jack of 1801.
The Flag of Great Britain (1707–1800) incorporated the Flag of England and Flag of Scotland. The Kingdom of Great Britain was established on 1 May 1707, shortly after the parliaments of Scotland and England had ratified the Treaty of Union by each approving Acts of Union combining the two parliaments and the powers of the two crowns. Scotland ...
The Kingdom of Great Britain was itself formed in 1707 from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. England and Scotland had been in a personal union since 1603, while Ireland had been in a personal union with the Kingdom of England since the elevation of the Lordship of Ireland to the status of a kingdom in 1542.
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
English: The pre-1801 Union Flag (of w:United Kingdom of Great Britain). العربية: (1606-1800) علم بريطانيا العظمى Español: Bandera de Gran Bretaña (1606-1800)
a Thistle, slipped and headed Proper, royally crowned (for Scotland) a Fleur-de-lis Or, crowned (for France) a Rose Gules, with a rose Argent superimposed, dimidated with a thistle in its Proper colours, crowned (for the Union of the Crowns) a Harp Or, stringed silver, crowned (for Ireland) King William III and Queen Mary II (1689–1694)