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| c. 1590 |
| | Royal (or real) tennis is so popular in France that there are now said to be 250 courts in Paris alone | |
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| 1598 |
| | A manuscript, the Guildford Book of Court, uses the word 'creckett' for a game played in a Guildford school | |
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| c. 1710 |
| | The Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian, ancestors of all thoroughbred racehorses, are imported into England | |
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| 1740 |
| | Jack Broughton, champion of England, opens an academy to teach 'the mystery of boxing, that wholly British art' | |
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| 1742 |
| | Edmond Hoyle publishes the definitive rules of whist | |
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| 1789 |
| | England's champion pugilist, the Jewish prize-fighter Daniel Mendoza, publishes The Art of Boxing | |
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| 1823 |
| | A Rugby schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, picks up the football and runs with it in rugby union's founding myth | |
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| 1829 |
| | Oxford and Cambridge compete against each other in the first university boat race, held at Henley | |
| | Boat Race souvenir, printed cloth 1876 Richmond Local Studies
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| 1838 |
| | Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | The London Prize Ring rules disallow kicking, gouging, head-butting and biting in the sport of boxing | |
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