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.
History of the British Isles
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The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has been continually occupied since the early Holocen
British Isles (1565), by Ignazio Danti
Poulnabrone dolmen in Ireland
End of Roman rule in Britain, 383–410
Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to the Norman Conquest, which defined much of the subsequent history of the British Isles