Sports year 1859
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| April 15th | Oxford wins the Boat Race against Cambridge . |
| May 14th | The Melbourne Football Club is founded. |
| 17th of May | The rules of Australian football are first written down. |
| 18th of June | First ascent of the Aletschhorn by Francis Fox Tuckett and others |
| July 18th | The Geelong Football Club is founded. |
| 20th of July | The TV Bremerhaven is founded. |
| 30th July | First ascent of the Combin de Grafeneire by Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville and others |
| the 9th of September | First ascent of the Rimpfischhorn by Melchior Anderegg and Leslie Stephen |
| 15th of November | The first Olympics take place in Athens . |
| November 19th | The Oldenburger Turnerbund is founded. |
Events
The Olympics
- November 15th : The first Olympics take place in Athens . The model for the event organized by the merchant Evangelos Zappas is the ancient Olympic Games .
Australian football
- May 14th : Melbourne Football Club is founded.
- May 17 : Australian football rules are first written down by Tom Wills and others in Melbourne.
- June 15 : The Castlemaine Football Club is founded.
- July 18 : The Geelong Football Club is founded.
Rockclimbing
- June 18 : The English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett completes the first ascent of the Aletschhorn in the Bernese Alps with Swiss mountain guides Johann Joseph Bennen, Peter Bohren and V. Tairraz .
- July 30th : A rope team led by Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville succeeds in the first ascent of the Combin de Grafeneire , the highest peak in the Grand Combin in the Valais Alps .
- 9 September : Melchior Anderegg and Leslie Stephen are the first to climb the 4,199 m high Rimpfischhorn in the Valais Alps .
- A group around Leopold Pfaundler von Hadermur was the first to climb the 2,492 m high Hohe Gleirsch in the Karwendel in Tyrol , as well as the southern and middle Jägerkarspitze and probably also the Gleirschtaler Brandjoch .
Cricket
- The English cricket team goes on a successful tour through North America .
Soccer
- The English football club Forest FC is founded.
Equestrian sport
- "Collingwood" wins the 26th Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
polo
- The first British polo club is founded.
rowing
On April 15th, Oxford wins the 16th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 24'04 ″. The Cambridge boat sinks.
chess
- The US American Paul Morphy ends his year-long trip through Europe unbeaten.
do gymnastics
- July 20 : TV Bremerhaven is founded as the city's first gymnastics club.
- November 19 : The Oldenburger Turnerbund is founded.
- The Bremen TG is founded.
- The TSB Heilbronn-Horkheim is founded.
Born
- January 2 : Fritz Riemann , German chess player († 1932 )
- February 6 : Wilhelm Cohn , German chess player († 1913 )
- May 31 : Iossif Schomaker , Russian sailor and Olympic medalist († 1931 )
- October 16 : Karl Blodig , Austrian mountaineer, ophthalmologist and publicist († 1956 )
Died
- September 1 : Allan Robertson , Scottish golfer (* 1815 )
