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Father W Ferris describes two forms of caid: the "field game" in which the object is to put the ball through arch-like goals, formed from the boughs of two trees; and the epic "cross-country game" which lasts the whole of a Sunday (after Mass) and is won by taking the ball across a parish boundary. [3] "Wrestling", "holding" opposing players ...
December 1801 events (1 P) This page was last edited on 22 January 2025, at 06:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
In 1801, Thomas Boxall published the earliest known instructional book on cricket called Rules and Instructions for Playing at the Game of Cricket. [3] In 1819, Mary Russell Mitford began writing a series of sketches of village life which were published in The Lady's Magazine. They were subsequently collected in book form as Our Village. One ...
Altham HS (1962) A History of Cricket, Volume 1 London: George Allen & Unwin. Birley D (1999) A Social History of English Cricket. London: Aurum. ISBN 978 1 78131 1769; Major J (2007) More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-718364-7
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: John Treadwell (); Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Alexander Scott Bullitt (political party unknown); Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: vacant (until month and day unknown), Samuel Phillips, Jr. (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
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Pages in category "January 1801" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
1801 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1801st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 801st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1801, the ...