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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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| 1845 |
| | | New Yorker Alexander Cartwright devises the set of rules that become the basis of the modern game of baseball | |
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| 1864 |
| | | The Marylebone Cricket Club, arbiter of cricket, finally rules that overarm bowling is legitimate | |
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