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Scotland--History--Union, 1707

LC control no.sh 85118854
LC classificationDA807
Geographic headingScotland--History--Union, 1707
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Variant(s)Anglo-Scottish Union, 1707
British Union of 1707
Great Britain--History--Union, 1707
Scotland--History--The Union, 1707
Union of England and Wales with Scotland, 1707
Union of Scotland with England and Wales, 1707
See alsoGreat Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714
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Found inBritannica Micro.: v. 10, p. 563 (Scotland and England remained separate kingdoms under a single monarch ... until 1707, when the parliaments of both countries passed the Act of Union, which, together with Wales, joined the countries into the Kingdom of Great Britain. As a result of the Act, Scotland dissolved its parliament and sent representatives to the Westminster Parliament, after receiving guarantees of autonomy for Scottish laws and courts and the Presbyterian established church.)