The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms
A published version of the Treaty of Union agreement, which led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707
George I in 1714, by Godfrey Kneller
18th-century London by William Hogarth
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough accepts the French surrender at Blenheim, 1704.
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The territory today known as England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. The earliest evidence for ea
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Stonehenge, erected in several stages from c.3000–2500 BC
Silbury Hill, c. 2400 BC
Artefacts from Bush Barrow at Stonehenge. Wessex culture, Early Bronze Age, c. 1900 BC
View of the ramparts of the hillfort of Maiden Castle (450 BC), as they look today