Today in 1606... A new flag to represent the regal union of England and Scotland is specified by royal decree: the Union Flag (or Union Jack when flown at sea). When the Scottish King James VI succeeded to the English throne, he wished to create a visual symbol of the union of the two countries. The new Union Flag incorporated both the red cross of St George and the Saltire of Scotland. Wales, considered part of England in law, was without symbolic representation.
On this day in 1606, the Union Flag was officially adopted as the flag of Great Britain by the royal decree of His Majesty James I, unifying the crosses of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
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