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| c. 550 |
| | Chess is first played at about this time, in India, before spreading west to Persia | |
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| 735 |
| | Japanese tradition gives this as the year in which the game of I-go, known in the west as go, is introduced from China | |
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| c. 900 |
| | Playing cards are in use in T'ang dynasty China. | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | The Palio, in which horses race round the Campo in Siena, is held from this time | |
| | The Palio in Siena Fotofile CG
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| 1299 |
| | Southampton boasts the earliest known bowling green, mentioned in a document of this year | |
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| c. 1425 |
| | Packs of tarot playing cards are among the most popular products of Europe's first printing presses | |
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| 1511 |
| | The earliest surviving curling stone, discovered in Scotland, dates from this year | |
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| 1547 |
| | The first book describing the game of draughts, or checkers, is published in Spain | |
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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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