Sports year 1863
| Sports year 1863 | |
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 3rd General German Gymnastics Festival is held in Leipzig . |
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| 28th March | Oxford wins the Boat Race against Cambridge . |
| April 19th | The Swiss Alpine Club is founded. |
| May 16 | The Berlin gymnastics association is founded. |
| July 27th | The Bad Berleburg gymnastics club is founded. |
| 1st - August 5 | Third German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig |
| 12. August | First ascent of Dent d'Hérens by Melchior Anderegg and Florence Crauford Grove |
| August 16 | First ascent of the Parrotspitze by Melchior Anderegg and Florence Crauford Grove |
| 7th of September | First ascent of the Bifertenstock by Abraham Roth |
| 23rd October | The Alpino Italiano Club is founded. |
| October 26th | The Football Association is founded. |
| December 7th | The ASV Cham is founded. |
| 19. December | The first football game under FA rules is played. |
Events
Alpinism
- April 19 : On the initiative of Rudolf Theodor Simler , 35 gentlemen founded the Swiss Alpine Club in the Olten railway station buffet . The Grünhornhütte will later be built as the first mountain hut in Switzerland .
- August 12th : Melchior Anderegg , Florence Crauford Grove and others succeed in the first ascent of the 4171 m high Dent d'Hérens in the Valais Alps .
- August 16 : Melchior Anderegg , Florence Crauford Grove and others succeed in the first ascent of the 4432 m high Parrotspitze in the Monte Rosa massif.
- August 29th : Paul Grohmann and Francesco Lacedelli succeed in the first ascent of the 3244 m high Tofana di Mezzo in the Dolomites .
- September 7th : Together with others, Abraham Roth climbs the Bifertenstock in the Glarus Alps for the first time .
- October 23 : In Turin is at the initiative of Quintino Sella the Italian Alpine Club was founded.
- Ludwig Barth and Leopold Pfaundler are the first to climb the Pfaffenschneide , a few days later Joseph Anton Specht and Alois Tanzer follow in the course of the ascent of the Zuckerhütl.
- Josef Anton Specht and mountain guide Alois Tanzer manage the first ascent of the Zuckerhütl , the highest mountain in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol .
- Ludwig von Barth and Leopold Pfaundler climb the Eastern Seespitze in the Stubai Alps for the first time .
- Eugen Infanger and Eduard Cattani manage the first ascent of the Schlossberg in the Uri Alps .
Cricket
- January 8 : Yorkshire County Cricket Club is established.
- August 12 : The Hampshire County Cricket Club is established.
- December 15 : The Middlesex County Cricket Club is founded.
- The English sports club Preston North End is founded as a cricket club.
fencing
- The fencing club Offenbach is founded.
Football, rugby
- October 26th : The English Football Association is founded in London as the first football association in the world and, in further meetings until December, draws up the first official football rules based on the Cambridge rules of 1848 . This means the separation of football and rugby .
- December 19 : A first test match under the new rules is played between enthusiastic members of the FA who do not want to wait for January 2, 1864, the official date for the first football game , which ends goalless.
- The army football club Royal Engineers is founded.
- The Stoke Ramblers football club in Stoke-on-Trent is founded.
golf
- Willie Park Senior wins The Open Championship for the second time since 1860 .
athletics
- The US American Lewis "Deerfoot" Bennett improved his own record three times this year in an hour run . On January 12th he runs 18,425 meters, on February 23rd 18,507 meters. His record of April 3 of 18,589 meters was not surpassed until June 19, 1897 .
horse race
- "Last Pippin" wins the 30th Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
rowing
On March 28th, Oxford wins the 20th Boat Race against Cambridge in a time of 23'06 ″ and thus draws the same number of victories. Both universities have recorded 10 victories since the competition began.
The Oxford University College wins the Grand Challenge Cup of the Henley Royal Regatta in London.
chess
- As in the previous year, Max Lange wins the Congress of the West German Chess Federation , the first major German chess tournament .
do gymnastics
- May 16 : The Berlin gymnastics association is founded.
- July 27th : The Bad Berleburg gymnastics club is founded. On October 18th, the club's own gymnasium in Bad Berleburg will be officially opened.
- August 1st to 5th : The 3rd General German Gymnastics Festival is held in Leipzig .
- December 7th : ASV Cham is founded.
- In Germany, the men's gymnastics club Bad Schwartau , TSV Bremervörde , TSV Burladingen , TV Leiselheim , TSV Schwabmünchen , TSV Trostberg , TuS Pewsum and Wedeler TSV are founded.
- The Slovenian Sokol Association Južni Sokol is founded.
Others
- March 1st : The first Norwegian speed skating competition is held in Kristiania . Allegedly around 10,000 people watch the 70 participants in the race.
- The second Olympics planned for this year will fall victim to the political events in Greece .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 1 : Pierre de Coubertin , French educator, historian and sports official († 1937 )
- January 2 : Nick Ross , Scottish football player († 1894 )
- May 26 : Bob Fitzsimmons , British boxer and world heavyweight champion († 1917 )
- July 25 : John Tener , American politician and baseball player († 1946 )
- July 27th : Ignacy Popiel , Polish chess player († 1941 )
- September 15 : Alexander Panschin , Russian speed skater and figure skater († 1904 )
- September 24 : Dominick McCaffrey , American heavyweight boxer († 1926 )
- November 3 : Blanche Bingley , British tennis player († 1946 )
- November 29th : Georg Marco , Austrian chess master and journalist († 1923 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Yabu Kentsū , Japanese karate master († 1937 )
Died
- July 6 : Ernst Merck , German entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of the Hamburger Ruder Club (* 1811 )
See also
Web links
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