Sports year 1858
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Swiss Schwinger on an illustration from 1858
Events
Alpinism
- June 3 : Francis Thomas Gregory becomes the first European to climb the largest monolith on earth in Western Australia . Shortly afterwards Gregory named the mountain Mount Augustus , taking his brother, the discoverer Augustus Gregory, as his namesake.
- June 29th : Johann Jakob Weilenmann manages the first tourist ascent of the Muttler in the Samnaun group in Graubünden, Switzerland .
Maximilien de Meuron's painting The Great Eiger, seen from Wengernalp (19th century)
- August 11th : Christian Almer , Charles Barrington and Peter Bohren succeed in the first ascent of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps , which up until then had been considered impassable .
- September 11th : A group of four mountaineers stands for the first time in the Valais Alps on the cathedral , the highest mountain that lies entirely within Switzerland.
football
- Summer: The first experimental Australian football game is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground .
Soccer
- October 21 : At the first annual general meeting of Sheffield FC , founded last year , the Sheffield Rules are adopted , the first written football rules . Among other things, it is stipulated that the kick-off must be taken from the middle of the stationary ball. Catching the ball is allowed under certain conditions.
Equestrian sport
- "Pizarro" wins the 25th Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
rowing
- Cambridge wins the 15th Boat Race against Oxford in 21'23 ″ on March 27th .
chess
Paul Morphy and Jules Arnous de Rivière at the chess board, Paris 1858
- The American Paul Morphy embarked on a European trip to London and Paris until 1859 , during which he beat anyone who competes against him.
- October or November: Paul Morphy wins the role of Morphy - Karl von Braunschweig and Count Isoard, Paris 1858 during an opera performance by the Barber of Seville .
- The Austrian Johann Jacob Löwenthal wins the strong chess tournament in Birmingham.
do gymnastics
- Ferdinand Goetz takes over the editing of the Deutsche Turnzeitung from Ernst Keil .
Sports facilities
- The Battersea Park in London is opened.
- The grandstands of the Freudenau racecourse near Vienna are inaugurated.
Born
- March 22nd : Hans Meyer , German geographer, mountaineer and Africa explorer († 1929 )
- May 8 : Dan Brouthers , American baseball player († 1932 )
- August 27 : George Lyon , Canadian golfer and sports official († 1838 )
- October 15 : John L. Sullivan , American boxer, world heavyweight champion († 1918 )
Died
- May 9 : Adolf Spieß , German sports pedagogue (* 1810 )
