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Events

The Olympien

Australian Football

Mountaineering

• A group led by Leopold Pfaundler of Hadermur mounts as the first 2,492 m high Hohe Gleirsch in the Karwendel mountains in Tirol, as well as the Southern and Central Jägerkarspitze and probably the Gleirschtaler Brandjoch.

Cricket

• The English cricket team goes on a successful tour of North America.

Football

• The English football club Forest FC is founded.

Polo

• The first British Polo Club is founded.

Rowing

Oxford wins on April 15, the 16th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 24'04 ". The boat drops of Cambridge.

Chess

• The American Paul Morphy finished unbeaten his one-year tour of Europe.

Gymnastics

• July 20: The TV Bremerhaven is founded as the first sports club in the city.
• November 19: The Oldenburg Gymnastics Federation is founded.

• The Bremer TG is founded.
• The TSB Heilbronn- Horkheim is founded.

Born

• January 2: Fritz Riemann, German chess player († 1932)
• February 6: William Cohn, German chess player († 1913)
• October 16: Karl Blodig, Austrian mountaineer, eye doctor and publicist ( † 1956)