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The history of the United Kingdom as a unified sovereign state began in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, into a united kingdom called Great Britain. Of this new state the historian Simon Schama said "What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history." A further Act of Union in 1800 added the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The first decades were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at Culloden in 1746. In 1763, victory in the Seven Years War led to the dominance of the British Empire, which was to be the foremost global power for over a century and grew to become the largest empire in history. As a result, the culture of the United Kingdom, and its industrial, political, constitutional, educational and linguistic influence, became worldwide.

In 1922, following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, most of Ireland seceded to become the Irish Free State; a day later, Northern Ireland seceded from the Free State and returned to the United Kingdom. As a result, in 1927 the United Kingdom changed its formal title to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," usually shortened to "Britain" and (after 1945) to the "United Kingdom" or "UK".
英国作为一个统一的主权国家的历史开始于1707年与英格兰和苏格兰的王国的政治联盟到名为大不列颠联合王国。这种新的状态历史学家西蒙·沙玛说：“什么开始作为一个敌对的合并将在世界上最强大的持续经营一个全面的伙伴关系结束......这是欧洲历史上最惊人的一次转变。”联盟在1800年进一步增加法爱尔兰王国产生了大不列颠和爱尔兰联合王国。

第一个十年是由它与惨败于1746年在1763年在卡洛登司徒事业结束党人起义显着，胜利七年战争导致了大英帝国的统治地位，这是最重要的全球力量超过一世纪成长，成为历史上最大的帝国。其结果是，英国，其工业，政治，宪法，教育和语言影响力的文化，成为了全世界。

1922年，继盎格鲁爱尔兰条约，大多数爱尔兰脱离，成为爱尔兰自由邦;一天后，北爱尔兰距离自由州脱离联邦，返回英国。其结果是，在1927年英国改变了它的正式名称为“大不列颠及北爱尔兰，”通常缩写为“英国达人”和（1945年后）的“联合王国”或“UK”。


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