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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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| 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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