Personal union of the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland from 1603
This article is about England and Scotland coming under the rule of the same monarch. For the merger of the two sovereign countries into one sovereign country over a century later, see Treaty of Union.
For the 2012 album by Bury Tomorrow, see The Union of Crowns.
Constitutional documents and events relevant to the status of the United Kingdom and its countries
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Treaty of Union
1706
Acts of Union
1707
Succession to the Crown Act 1707
1707
Septennial Act
1716
Wales and Berwick Act
1746
Constitution of Ireland (1782)
1782
Acts of Union 1800
1800
HC (Disqualifications) Act 1801
1801
Reform Act 1832
1832
Scottish Reform Act 1832
1832
Irish Reform Act 1832
1832
Judicial Committee Act 1833
1833
Judicial Committee Act 1843
1843
Judicial Committee Act 1844
1844
Representation of the People Act 1867
1867
Reform Act (Scotland) 1868
1868
Reform Act (Ireland) 1868
1868
Irish Church Act
1869
Royal Titles Act 1876
1876
Appellate Jurisdiction Act
1876
Reform Act 1884
1884
Interpretation Act 1889
1889
Parliament Act
1911
Aliens Restriction Act
1914
Status of Aliens Act 1914
1914
Government of Ireland Act 1914
1914
Welsh Church Act
1914
Royal Proclamation of 1917
1917
Representation of the People Act 1918
1918
Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act
1919
Government of Ireland Act
1920
Anglo-Irish Treaty
1921
Church of Scotland Act 1921
1921
Irish Free State (Agreement) Act
1922
Irish Free State Constitution Act
1922
Ireland (Confirm. of Agreement) Act 1925
1925
Balfour Declaration of 1926
1926
Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act
1927
Representation of the People Act 1928
1928
Eire (Confirmation of Agreement) Act 1929
1929
Statute of Westminster
1931
HM Declaration of Abdication Act 1936
1936
Regency Act 1937
1937
Regency Act 1943
1943
British Nationality Act 1948
1948
Representation of the People Act 1948
1948
Ireland Act 1949
1949
Statute of the Council of Europe
1949
Parliament Act 1949
1949
Regency Act 1953
1953
Royal Titles Act 1953
1953
European Convention on Human Rights
1953
Interpretation Act (NI)
1954
HC Disqualification Act 1957
1957
Life Peerages Act
1958
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
1962
Peerage Act
1963
Royal Assent Act
1967
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968
1968
Immigration Act
1971
EC Treaty of Accession
1972
NI (Temporary Provisions) Act
1972
European Communities Act
1972
Local Government Act
1972
UK joins the European Communities
1973
Local Government (Scotland) Act
1973
NI border poll
1973
NI Constitution Act
1973
House of Commons Disqualification Act
1975
Referendum Act
1975
EC membership referendum
1975
Interpretation Act
1978
Scotland Act 1978
1978
Wales Act 1978
1978
Scottish devolution referendum
1979
Welsh devolution referendum
1979
British Nationality Act
1981
Representation of the People Act 1983
1983
Representation of the People Act 1985
1985
Single European Act
1985
Maastricht Treaty
1993
Local Government (Wales) Act
1994
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act
1994
Referendums (Scotland & Wales) Act
1997
Scottish devolution referendum
1997
Welsh devolution referendum
1997
Good Friday Agreement
1998
Northern Ireland Act
1998
Government of Wales Act
1998
Human Rights Act
1998
Scotland Act
1998
House of Lords Act
1999
Representation of the People Act 2000
2000
Parties, Elections and Referendums Act
2000
Constitutional Reform Act
2005
Government of Wales Act 2006
2006
Northern Ireland Act 2009
2009
Lisbon Treaty
2009
Constitutional Reform and Governance Act
2010
Parl. Voting System and Constituencies Act
2011
Welsh devolution referendum
2011
Alternative Vote referendum
2011
European Union Act 2011
2011
Fixed-term Parliaments Act
2011
Scotland Act 2012
2012
Succession to the Crown Act 2013
2013
Scottish independence referendum
2014
House of Lords Reform Act
2014
Wales Act 2014
2014
HL (Expulsion and Suspension) Act
2015
Recall of MPs Act
2015
European Union Referendum Act
2015
EU membership referendum
2016
Scotland Act 2016
2016
Wales Act 2017
2017
EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Act
2017
Invocation of Article 50
2017
European Union (Withdrawal) Act
2018
EU Withdrawal Act 2019
2019
EU Withdrawal (No. 2) Act
2019
Early Parliamentary General Election Act
2019
EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Act
2020
UK leaves the European Union
2020
EU (Future Relationship) Act
2020
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act
2022
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The Union of the Crowns (Scottish Gaelic: Aonadh nan Crùintean; Scots: Union o the Crouns)[1][2] was the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of the Kingdom of England as James I and the practical unification of some functions (such as overseas diplomacy) of the two separate realms under a single individual on 24 March 1603. It followed the death of James's cousin, Elizabeth I of England, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.[3]
The union was personal or dynastic, with the Crown of England and the Crown of Scotland remaining both distinct and separate despite James's best efforts to create a new imperial throne. England and Scotland continued as two separate states sharing a monarch, who directed their domestic and foreign policies, along with Ireland, until the Acts of Union of 1707 during the reign of the last Stuart monarch, Anne. However, there was a republican interregnum in the 1650s, during which the Tender of Union of Oliver Cromwell created the Commonwealth of England and Scotland which ended with the Stuart Restoration.[4]
^"Aonadh nan Crùintean". www.faclair.com.
^"English World-wide". Julius Groos Verlag. 26 September 1995 – via Google Books.
^John Daniel McVey. "The Union of The Crowns 1603 – 2003". Uotc.scran.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
^Smith, David Lawrence (1998). A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603–1707: The Double Crown., Chapter 2
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