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The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1541 and 1691, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. Independence for the Irish Free State in 1922 followed the partition of the island of Ireland two years previously ...
1754–55 : Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec ( Ambassador Extraordinary ) 1756–57 : Chevalier Charles d'Éon ( Acting Attaché) 1758–61 : Chevalier Jacques-Abraham Durand d'Aubigny ( Minister Plenipotentiary) Seven Years' War (1756–62) 1762–63 : Louis-Jules Barbon Mancini-Mazzarini, duc de Nevers.
George II (George Augustus; German: Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 [a] – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 ( O.S.) until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent ...
The national flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, also known as the Union Flag. [a] The design of the Union Jack dates back to the Act of Union 1801, which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Elections. The Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. [10] Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB founded the Daily Worker (renamed the Morning Star in 1966).
In 789, however, the first Scandinavian raids on England began; these Viking attacks grew in number and scale until in 865 the Danish micel here or Great Army, invaded England, captured York and defeated the kingdom of East Anglia. Mercia and Northumbria fell in 875 and 876, and Alfred of Wessex was driven into internal exile in 878.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain [1] was a state in the British Isles. [2] The kingdom came into existence because of the Acts of Union 1707. [3] These acts of parliament joined ( unified) the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England. [4] The kingdom's lands were Great Britain (an island in the Atlantic Ocean near Continental Europe ...
