1865 in sports

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JUNE 28: One rope team consisting of Adolphus Warburton Moore, Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg succeed the first ascent of Piz Roseg in the Grisons Bernina group.
June 29: Edward Whymper, Christian Almer and Franz Biner the first ascent of the Aiguille Verte, a four-thousand in the Alps.
July 6th: The first ascent of the upper fork horn succeed Adolphus Warburton Moore, Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg. The very next day the losers in the race for the top, Francis Douglas, Peter and Joseph Taugwalder Viennin follow in her third attempt.
July 14: The first ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper, Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson, Douglas Hadow Robert, Michel Croz and Peter Taugwalder father and son succeed. On the descent find four climbers death.

April 8: Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 21'24 ".
July 28: For the second year in a row wins Yale Harvard - Yale Regatta in a time of 19'09 ".

The Englishman William Cail leads in Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt a rugby game.
John Graham Chambers developed by his mentor John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry named Queensberry rules in boxing, is to be abolished with those of the bare- knuckle fight after the London Prize Ring Rules.
On the Hudson River, the first Eissegelclub the world arises.
The sports club Nottingham Forest is founded.

JANUARY 25: Karl Thurwieser, Austrian meteorologist, Alpinist and theologian (* 1789)

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