History UsefulNotes / JamesVIAndI

He styled himself King of Great Britain and Ireland (and devised the Union Jack to fly on his ships and thus emphasise the unity of his realms), though each kingdom still had different crowns, different constitutions, and different parliaments. He was a major advocate of a single parliament for both England and Scotland, and also signed a peace treaty with the King of Spain, UsefulNotes/PhilipIII. In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster and British colonisation of the Americas began. Jamestown, the first surviving British colony in what was later the US, was named for the reigning king. The Plymouth Colony (you know, the one with the ''Mayflower'') was also established in his reign, as was the first permanent English settlement in Newfoundland (which England had claimed decades earlier but had never actually settled).