Kingdom of Great Britain
Sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to 1 January 1801.
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Kingdom of Scotland
Sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843.
In 1707, the two kingdoms were united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain under the terms of the Acts of Union.
Great Britain
Island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
The single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the 1707 Acts of Union between the kingdoms of England (which at the time incorporated Wales) and Scotland.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 8 March 1702.
On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain.
House of Stuart
The House of Stuart, originally Stewart, was a royal house of Scotland, England, Ireland and later Great Britain.
Kingdom of Ireland
About the Irish kingdom that existed from 1542 to 1800.
The Kingdom of Ireland (an Ríoghacht Éireann; an Ríocht Éireann, ) was a monarchy on the island of Ireland that was a client state of the Kingdom of England and then of Great Britain.
Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745; known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole) was a British statesman and Whig politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Monarchy of Ireland
Monarchical systems of government have existed in Ireland from ancient times.
The personal union between England and Scotland became a political union with the enactments of the Acts of Union 1707, which created the Kingdom of Great Britain.
House of Hanover
The House of Hanover (Haus Hannover), whose members are known as Hanoverians, is a European royal house of German origin that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and Ireland at various times during the 17th to 20th centuries.
Isle of Man
Island nation and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
The lordship revested in the British Crown in 1765, but the island did not become part of the 18th-century Kingdom of Great Britain, nor of its successors, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the present-day United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Parliament of Scotland
The legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland.
Thereafter the Parliament of Great Britain operated for both England and Scotland after the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain on 1 May 1707.