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June 30th: Abraham Roth and Edmund of fur mountain climb with the leaders of Johann Bischoff, Kaspar Blatter, Christian Lauener and Gilgian rich for the first time the 3,643 m high doldenhorn in the Bernese Alps.
July 18: After Johann Jakob Weilenmann has waited in vain for his mountain guide Nicodemus Klotz, he ascends the 3,550 -meter-high Great Ramolkogel in the Ötztal Alps alone first.
July 18: Thomas Stuart Kennedy, William and C. Wigram with the leaders Jean -Baptiste Croz and Johann Kronig climb for the first time the 4,357 m high Dent Blanche in the Valais Alps.
JULY 30: The Täschhorn, with 4,491 meters the second highest peak of Mischabelgruppe in the Valais Alps, by Stefan and Johann Zumtaugwald, J. Llewelyn Davies, JW Hayward and Peter- Josef Summer Matter first climbed.

August 23: Leslie Stephen, Thomas Stuart Kennedy, Thomas Cox and Melchior Anderegg reach the first humans to the summit of Mount Disgrazia.
November 19: The Austrian Alpine Club was founded at the initiative of students Paul Grohmann and Edmund of Mojsisovics the first Mountaineering Federation of the European mainland, and thus as the second oldest in the world after the British Alpine Club.

Joseph Anton woodpecker climbs the first person known by name as a mountain guide the blade tip in the Stubai Alps.
The African explorer Heinrich Barth climbs during a trip to Greece became the first man to Olympus, but it does not reach the main summit Mytikas.

Jem Mace defends his title as against English champion Tom King. In the same year, however, King wins in a rematch, is the new heavyweight champion.

The fencing club Hannover 1862 is founded, the first German Fencing Club, which is, however, still heavily influenced by the military fencing.

November: The football club Notts County is founded.
December 29: The FC Sheffield Hallam FC and the bear for the first time from a football game in 1855 built Cricket Stadium at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, the oldest still recorded football stadium in the world.

Old Tom Morris can repeat last year's victory at the Open Championship at Prestwick. He wins with 13 strokes ahead, a record which is broken only in 2000 by Tiger Woods.

October 27: The American Lewis Bennett, setting a new world record in the hours of operation of 18,379 m.

The Calcutta Polo Club, the oldest existing polo club in the world, was founded by British soldiers in India.

Oxford wins on April 12, the 19th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 24'04 ".

The London Rowing Club won the Grand Challenge Cup Henley Royal Regatta in London.

January 22: The Turnverein 1862 Bolzano was founded at the inn " imperial crown ". Hugo von Goldegg as first chair, gym teacher is the Innsbruck Anton Schiestl. On April 11, the club will officially approved.

January 22: In the Norwegian Trysil a skiing event takes place, is carried out in the framework of its first ski jumping competition.
December 24: The Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal is opened. In the winter months here, public skating, ice hockey and other ice sports take place.

July 5th: Horatio Caro, English chess player († 1920)
JULY 22: Cosmo Duff Gordon, British fencers († 1931)
August 16th: Amos Alonzo Stagg, American American football player and coach and sport managers († 1965)
AUGUST 21: Franz Eduard Matras, Austrian sports official and managers († 1945)
August 23: Jan Kotrč, Czech chess player, chess composer and writer († 1943)
September 15: Alexander Nikititch Panshin, Russian speed skaters and figure skaters († 1904)

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