Sports year 1856
Events
Race results
- Cambridge wins the 13th Boat Race against Oxford on March 15 in 25'45 ″. The boat race , which was previously held at irregular intervals, will now be held annually.
- June : My Hope wins the 23rd Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
Founding of clubs
- October 13 : On the initiative of Hermann von Hanneken, the Aachen Chess Club is founded in 1856 .
- The first lacrosse club, the Montréal Lacrosse Club, is founded in the province of Canada .
literature
- The English toy retailer Isaac Spratt publishes the first printed rules for croquet .
- The German gymnastics newspaper appears for the first time in Leipzig . The sports magazine is founded as the press organ of the German Gymnastics Federation and initially published by Ernst Keil . The DTZ is the first more important paper in Germany that deals with questions of gymnastics.
Born
- February 25 : Mathias Zdarsky , Austrian ski pioneer († 1940 )
- March 10 : Albert de Dion , French automobile pioneer and racing driver († 1946 )
- June 6 : George Lacy Hillier , English cyclist and author († 1941 )
- July 5 : Ion Keith-Falconer , British cyclist, scholar and missionary († 1887 )
- October 21 : Josef Noa , Austro-Hungarian judge and chess player († 1903 )
- November 19 : Simon Zinovievich Alapin , Russian chess player († 1923 )
