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• Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542, passed by the Parliament of England, annexing Wales to the Kingdom of England are sometimes known as the "Acts of Union".
• Act of Union 1652?, (more commonly known as the Tender of Union), annexation of Scotland by the Commonwealth of England
  Commonwealth of England
  
  The Commonwealth of England was the republic which ruled first Kingdom of England and Wales, and then Kingdom of Ireland and Kingdom of Scotland from 1649 to 1660....
  
• Acts of Union 1707
  Acts of Union 1707
  
  The Acts of Union were a pair of Act of Parliament passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England to put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries....
  , passed by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• Act of Union 1800
  Act of Union 1800
  
  The phrase Act of Union 1800 is used to describe two complementary Acts whose official United Kingdom titles are the Union with Ireland Act 1800 , an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and the Act 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.
• Act of Union 1840
  Act of Union 1840
  
  The Act of Union passed in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to replace them....
  , passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, joining Upper Canada
  Upper Canada
  
  The Province of Upper Canada was a British colony located in what is now the southern portion of the Province of Ontario in Canada. Upper Canada officially existed from 26 December 1791 to 10 February 1841 and generally comprised present-day Southern Ontario and, until 1797, the Upper Peninsula of what is now part of the U.S....
   and Lower Canada
  Lower Canada
  
  The Province of Lower Canada was a British colonization of the Americas on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ....
   (to form the Province of Canada
  Province of Canada
  
  The Province of Canada or the United Province of Canada was a British North America#BNA colonies after the American Revolution: in North America from 1841 to 1867....
  ).
• South Africa Act 1909
  South Africa Act 1909
  
  The South Africa Act 1909 was an Act of Parliament of the British Parliament which created the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape Colony, Natal, South Africa, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal....
  , passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom creating the Union of South Africa, is sometimes referred to as the Act of Union.

• Act of Union 1814 forming a personal union between Sweden and Norway.
• Danish-Icelandic Act of Union 1918 granted independence to Iceland.

Other meanings

• An agreement between the Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches, within the United States.
• The term "act of union" is also used as a euphemism for sexual intercourse
  Sexual intercourse
  
  Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the Penis enters the Vagina. The two entities may be of opposite sexes or not, or they may be hermaphrodite, as is the case with snails....
  .
• The poem by Seamus Heaney
  Seamus Heaney
  
  Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
  , written in 1975.