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Modern history of the United Kingdom

  • Industrial RevolutionIn 1799, French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto announced that France had entered the race to industrialise. This marked the earliest recorded use of the phrase…
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandOn the first of January 1801, a new sovereign state emerged from the merger of Great Britain and Ireland. The Acts of Union brought two kingdoms together…