Football Association founded
1863 · Event
Clubs meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern in London agree common rules for football, splitting from the handling game that became rugby — the founding document of the world's most popular sport.
On these timelines: England, United Kingdom (combined), Master
More from England
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
Around 1863
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- American Civil War (1861)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)