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In Great Britain and Ireland

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Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 ( cy, Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542) were Acts of the Parliament of England, and were the parliamentary measures by which Wales was annexed to the Kingdom of England. Moreover, the legal sys ...
, passed during the reign of King Henry VIII to make Wales a part of the Kingdom of England, often referred to in the plural as the "Acts of Union" (Welsh, ''Y Deddfau Uno'') *
Tender of Union The Tender of Union was a declaration of the Parliament of England during the Interregnum following the War of the Three Kingdoms stating that Scotland would cease to have an independent parliament and would join England in its emerging Commonwea ...
(Act of Union 1652), Tender of Union uniting Scotland with the Commonwealth of England * Acts of Union 1707, passed by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain * Acts of Union 1800, passed by both the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland


In the British Empire

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Act of Union 1840 The ''British North America Act, 1840'' (3 & 4 Victoria, c.35), also known as the ''Act of Union 1840'', (the ''Act'') was approved by Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, in Montreal. It abolished the legislatures of Lower ...
, passed by the Parliament of the UK, joining Upper Canada and Lower Canada to form the Province of Canada *
South Africa Act 1909 The South Africa Act 1909 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which created the Union of South Africa from the British Cape Colony, Colony of Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal Colony. The Act also made provisions for pote ...
, passed by the Parliament of the UK creating the Union of South Africa, sometimes referred to as the Act of Union


In Scandinavia

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Riksakten The ''Riksakten'' was the 1815 Act of Union that regulated the terms of the constitutional personal union between Sweden and Norway established in 1814. History The fundamental documents of the union were only the Convention of Moss and the revis ...
'' (Act of Union 1814), the Union between Sweden and Norway, forming a personal union between Sweden and Norway *
Danish–Icelandic Act of Union The Danish–Icelandic Act of Union, an agreement signed by Iceland and Denmark on 1 December 1918, recognized Iceland as a fully independent and sovereign state – the Kingdom of Iceland – freely associated to Denmark in a personal union wi ...
, a 1918 union granting independence to Iceland


Other uses

* ''Act of Union'', a poem by Seamus Heaney, written in 1975 * ''
Bull of Union with the Greeks ''Laetentur Caeli: Bulla Unionis Graecorum''Sometimes also spelled as ''Laetentur Coeli, Laetantur Caeli, Lætentur Cæli, Lætentur Cœli'', or ''Lætantur Cæli'', and occasionally referred to as the ''Act of Union'' or "Decree of Union". (Eng ...
'' (''Laetentur Caeli''), a 1439 papal bull sometimes referred to as the Act of Union {{disambiguation