History of England Parliamentary Acts passed by both parliaments in 1707, which dissolved them in order to form a Kingdom of Great Britain governed by a unified Parliament of Great Britain according to the Treaty of Union. The Acts joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland (previously separate states, with separate legislatures but with the same monarch) into a single Kingdom of Great Britain. The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. Although
Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to the European Communities and the European Union Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to the European Communities and the European Union This is a list of current, amended, spent and repealed Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to its membership of the European Communities and the European Union from 1972 to the present. Some of the acts (particularly the European Communities Act 1972 and the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 represent some of the most important constitutional legislation currently on the statue book . This act legislated for the accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities which later became the