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17 January 1597 — a court of law in Guildford heard from a 59-year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "hee and diverse of his fellows did runne and play at creckett and other plaies " on common land which was the subject of the current legal dispute ...
Rugby is regarded as the national sport of Wales and Georgia, and is the strongest professional team sport in Ireland. Europe's main competition for national teams is the Six Nations Championship, first held in 1883 as the Home Nations Championship. The other European national teams play at the Rugby Europe International Championships.
The 20th century saw major advances in the participation of women in sports due to a growing women's sports movement in Europe and North America. This led to the initiation of the Women's Olympiad (held three times 1921 , 1922 and 1923 ) and the Women's World Games (held four times ( 1922 , 1926 , 1930 and 1934 .
In the Elizabethan era (1558–1603), there was a wide range of leisure activities entertaining both the nobility and the common classes. Among these leisure activities were animal fighting , team sports , individual sports , games , dramatics, music and the arts .
Sport by former country and sport categories (for Europe see subcategory). Subcategories. This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total. ...
1721 — mariners of the British East India Company reported to be playing cricket at Khambhat (then Cambay) in western India, the earliest known reference to cricket in the Indian sub-continent. [7] 1724 — earliest mention of Edwin Stead, the noted patron of Kent county cricket; under his leadership, Kent was the most successful team of the ...
10 September 1624 — death of Jasper Vinall (born c. 1590), the first cricketer known to die as a result of an injury received when playing the game. [5] Village cricket thrives in the middle period of the 17th century, but there is no evidence of teams of county strength being formed at this time.
European sport by year (309 C) * Europe sport-related lists (54 C, 7 P) European people in sports (60 C) C. Sports competitions in Europe (44 C) D. Sport deaths in ...