Mad Victorian Sport (TRIH ep 592)
1863 · Resource
How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connection between public hangings, highwaymen, and early sporting events? Which is the most historically important sporting ground in the world? When was the first cricket test match played? What are the origins of rugby? Who was Richard Manks - the Lionel Messi of the Victorian period, and what did he achieve? And, what is the history of the mighty Ashes, one of the most celebrated sporting rivalries...
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Around 1863
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)