Timeline of Sporting Firsts
Here is a timeline of some of the firsts in the world of sports. See also the timeline of sports history.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 776 BC | The first Olympic Games is held at Athens. |
| 1829 | The first Oxford-Cambridge rowing race was held on the Thames River, London |
| 1839 | The Grand National horse race was first run |
| 1846 | The first recorded game of organized baseball was played at Elysian Fields, New Jersey. |
| 1851 | The first America's Cup yacht race was held |
| 1855 | The first modern game of ice hockey was played in Kingston, Ontario |
| 1858 | The first match of Australian Rules Football was played |
| 1860 | The first-ever Open Championship golf tournament for men was held |
| 1861 | the first Melbourne Cup horse race was run |
| 1874 | The first American football game was played between McGill University and Harvard. |
| 1875 | The Kentucky Derby was held for the first time. |
| The first organized ice hockey game is played in Montreal, ON, Canada. | |
| 1876 | Baseball's National League in the US started |
| 1877 | The first Wimbledon tennis event was held |
| The first Test match was played, between Australia and England. | |
| 1881 | The first year that the men's US National Tennis Championships was held (the precursor to the US Open) |
| 1887 | The first year that the women's US National Tennis Championships was held (the precursor to the US Open) |
| 1895 | The first-ever US golf open was held |
| 1897 | the first Boston marathon was run. |
| 1896 | the first Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. |
| 1903 | The Tour de France was held for the first time |
| The Baseball World Series was played for the first time | |
| 1905 | the first year that the Australian Open Tennis Championship was held |
| 1916 | the USPGA was held for the first time |
| 1920 | The first game of the National Football League (NFL) |
| 1922 | the first year that a women's event was held at the Australian Open tennis |
| 1925 | the first year that the French Tennis tournament that was open to all amateur players |
| 1934 | The first-ever US Golf Masters was held. |
| 1967 | the first year that the Super Bowl was held. |
Related Pages
- a timeline of sports in history
- History of Sport
- Timeline (all years) in the world of sport
- For future sporting events, see the Calendar of Major Sporting Events
- More about the World of Sport
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