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When was the Act of Union of Scotland and England?
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The Act of Union of Scotland and England was passed in 1707. The Act of Union was signed by King George I of Great Britain and King James VII of Scotland, and it merged the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England into a single state, which became the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Act of Union created a single parliament for the United Kingdom, and it was the first time that the two countries had a shared monarch.