When did Scotland join the UK?

Answer 1

The principality was brought under English control in 1284 when the Statute of Rhuddlan was enacted, the remaining Welsh territory was administered under the Marcher Lords until the Laws in Wales acts of 1536 (and 1542) were passed making England and Wales a single legal state. Sometimes referred to as the Act of Union between England and Wales similar to the Scottish/English Act although the naming of it as such is unofficial and didn't occur until the 20th century.

The Crowns of England and Scotland were joined in 1603 and the Parliaments joined under the Act of Union in 1707 being known as the Kingdom of Great Britain. However it was not until the union of 1801 that the title the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came in to being and therefore technically the answer as to Wales joining the UK is 1801.

If you mean england 1284 but otherwise 1801.

Answer 2

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They didn't actually 'unite'. Wales was conquered by the English in the Middle Ages and officially annexed in 1536.
England does not "own" Wales, both countries are part of the United Kingdom.
but well they are actually because my textbook says so

Your text book is wrong. Wales has a status within the UK which is similar to individual states within the United States.

Answer 3

Scotland was conquered by England and forced to join Great Britain in 1707.

There was armed resitance against this union up until 1746.

^ This person knows nothing about Scottish or British history.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed by a union of the parliaments in 1707. This was absolutely not a military conquest but a voluntary union between the sovereign parliaments of Scotland and England. No one has ever 'conquered' Scotland, not even the Romans. They did conquer England, however.

The armed resistence he/she speaks of were the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, which culminated in the Battle of Culloden in 1746. These rebellions were raised to return the House of Stewart/Stuart to the British throne and were a fight between the Jacobites (supporters of King James) and the government forces. There were Scots and English on both sides. It was not a fight between Scotland and England and had very little to do the union of the parliaments.

Answer 4

Wales was defeated and occupied by England in the 13th century and formally became part of Britain in the 16th century. It is now an integral part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Welsh people are British in international law but would probably describe themselves as being Welsh.

Answer 5

Of course, there never was and never could be a UK without Scotland. The UK was formed in 1707 to unify the governments of the two countries which had been ruled by the same monarch since 1603. The transition from separate kingdoms was gradual and relatively peaceful (aside from the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745). The situation is quite different from the military conquest of Scotland by the English king Edward I which the Scots still resent, quite rightly.

Answer 6

The United Kindgom as a whole joined the European Economic Community in 1973.

Answer 7

Wales was conquered by England in 1283.

Answer 8

The formal union was in 1536.

Answer 9

In 1536