The Nine Years' War was fought between France under Louis XIV and a European coalition called the League of Augsburg, which included the Habsburg emperor, the Dutch Republic, England, Spain, Sweden and several German states. It began when French armies entered the Rhineland and devastated the Palatinate, and it was fought in the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, Ireland and overseas colonies in North America. William III of England and the Dutch stadtholder led the coalition and also fought in Ireland, where he defeated his rival James II at the Boyne in 1690. The war was ended by the Treaty of Ryswick, in which France gave back most of its conquests apart from Strasbourg. The peace proved to be short, because the Spanish succession crisis followed.
Before and after
- 1688Founding of Newton
- from 1688 to 1759Dzungar–Qing Wars
- from April 1688 to September 1697King William's War
- 21 May 1688Birth of Alexander Pope
- from September 1688 to September 1697Nine Years' War
- from 28 December 1688 to 1 January 1689Glorious Revolution
- 1689Bill of Rights 1689
- from 12 March 1689 to 3 October 1691Williamite War in Ireland
- 6 September 1689Treaty of Nerchinsk
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- 30 August 1721Treaty of Nystad
- from 10 October 1733 to 3 October 1735War of the Polish Succession
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