![]() ![]() This led to an agreement between the Scottish and UK governments to hold the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. The pro-independence Scottish National Party first became the governing party of the devolved parliament in 2007, and it won an outright majority of seats at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. Two referendums on devolution were held in 19, with a devolved Scottish Parliament being established on 1 July 1999. ![]() Political campaigns for Scottish self-government began in the 19th century, initially in the form of demands for home rule within the United Kingdom. The two kingdoms were joined in personal union in 1603 when the Scottish King James VI became James I of England, and the two kingdoms united politically into one kingdom called Great Britain in 1707. ![]() Scotland was an independent kingdom through the Middle Ages, and fought wars to maintain its independence from England. Scottish independence ( Scottish Gaelic: Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba Scots: Scots unthirldom ) is the idea of Scotland as a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom, and refers to the political movement that is campaigning to bring it about. Proposed second independence referendum. ![]()
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