The Magna Carta promised the protection of Great Britain.
Magna Carta Libertatum -LRB- Medieval Latin for `` the Great Charter of the Liberties '' -RRB- , commonly called Magna Carta -LRB- also Magna Charta ; '' -LRB- the -RRB- Great Charter '' -RRB- , is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede , near Windsor , on 15 June 1215 .	Medieval Latin	Medieval Latin	charter	charter	King John of England	John, King of England	Runnymede	Runnymede	Windsor	Windsor, Berkshire
A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England -LRB- which had already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales -RRB- and the Kingdom of Scotland by the 1707 Acts of Union .	England	England	Scotland	Scotland	Wales	Wales	Kingdom of Great Britain	Kingdom of Great Britain	Kingdom of England	Kingdom of England	Kingdom of Scotland	Kingdom of Scotland	Acts of Union	Acts of Union 1707
More than a hundred years before , in 1603 , King James VI , King of Scots , had inherited the throne of England , but it was not until 1707 that the two countries ' parliaments agreed to form a political union .	England	England	Scots	Scots language	King James VI	James VI and I	King of Scots	List of Scottish monarchs
