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Events on Saturday 7 May 1689 1
1689England joins the War of the Grand AllianceWilliam III brings England into war against Louis XIV's FranceEngland formally declared war on France, joining the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman Empire, and Spain in the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. The conflict, known as the Nine Years' War, extended to colonial North America as King William's War. Fighting continued until the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697.