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April 2: The Club Alpin Français is founded.
JULY 26: Moritz von Dechy, Victor Pike, as well as the guides Johann and Josef Pinggera Spechtenhauser succeed the first ascent of the peak Petersen.

Theodor Petersen, M. Dechy, Victor Pike with the leaders Alois Ennemoser, Johann Pinggera and J. Spechtenhauser climb as the first Inner Schwarze Schneid and Mutkogel.

March 21: In the finale of the first Scottish FA Cup FC Queen's Park FC against the Clydesdale wins 2-0.
March: The Aston Villa Football Club is founded as a church football club.
September 29: The first football match in Germany will be played by students of the Gymnasium Martino- Katharineum in Braunschweig under the direction of Konrad Koch and August Hermann on the grounds of "small parade ground ." With this game, saw the birth of football in Germany. However, the new sport has long term problems, to prevail against the established gymnastics.

History of American Football: The football team at Harvard University and the rugby team of McGill University in Montreal meet. From the games that are performed by compromise rules, the two variants Canadian football and American football developed.
The Bolton Wanderers are founded under the name of Christchurch Football Club.
The Scottish football club Hamilton Academical is founded.
The already founded in mid-century English club Macclesfield Town plays for the first time after football rules.
The English rugby union club Coventry RFC and the Welsh Rugby Union Club Newport RFC are founded. The Swansea RFC changes from football to rugby.

March 28: In the time of 22'35 " Cambridge wins for the fifth consecutive year, the Boat Race against Oxford.

Walter Clopton Wingfield is a further developed in England from the Jeu de Paume game, which he calls Sphairistike or lawn tennis, and from which subsequently develop the sports of tennis and table tennis.

January 4: George Adee, American football player and tennis official († 1948)
JANUARY 19: Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler and the 19th yokozuna († 1922)
January 20: Steve Bloomer, English footballer († 1938)
FEBRUARY 18: Gaston Delalande, French race car driver († 1960)

March 2: Carl Schlechter, Austrian chess player († 1918)
MARCH 13: Ellery Clark, American athlete († 1949)
March 21: Alfred Tysoe, British track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1901)
MARCH 23: Grantley Goulding, British athlete and participants of the first Olympic Games († 1944)

9 June: Lewis Sheldon, American athlete († 1960)
June 18: Michelangelo Zois, an Austrian lawyer, civil servant, writer, journalist, amateur cyclists and cycling functionary († 1945)
June 22: Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter and athlete († 1930)
July 15: Gwyn Nicholls, Welsh rugby player († 1939)

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