Sports year 1864
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Alpinism
- June 25 : Adolphus Warburton Moore , Horace Walker , Edward Whymper , Christian Almer and Michel Croz succeed in the first ascent of the Barre des Écrins , the highest peak in the French Dauphiné Alps .
- July 9 : Edward Whymper and Michel Croz are the first to climb Mont Dolent together with others .
- July 15 : A rope team led by Edward Whymper succeeds in the first ascent of the Aiguille d'Argentière in the Mont-Blanc group .
- July 21 : Melchior Anderegg , together with Frank Walker , Lucy Walker , Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg, is the first to climb the 3699 meter high Balmhorn in the Bernese Alps .
- August 3 : The first fully recognized ascent of the Königspitze in the Ortler Alps is achieved by the English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett with his companions TF and EN Buxton and the Swiss mountain guides Christian Michel and Franz Biner. Already 1854 has Stephan Steinberger claims the first ascent in itself, but this was disputed by some climbers.
- August 22nd : Melchior Anderegg , Florence Crauford Grove and Leslie Stephen are the first to climb the 4221 meter high Zinalrothorn in the Valais Alps .
- August 25 : The Presanella in the Italian Southern Alps is climbed for the first time.
- August 29th : Paul Grohmann , Francesco Lacedelli , Angelo Dimai and Santo Siorpaes succeed in the first ascent of the 3225 m high Tofana di Rozes in the Dolomites .
- September 16 : Paul Grohmann , Francesco Lacedelli and Angelo Dimai succeed in the first ascent of the 3,205 m high Punta Sorapiss in the Dolomites , after having already reached the secondary summit of Croda Marcora on September 2.
- Josef Anton Specht and Franz Pöll are the first to climb the Hohen Riffler in the Verwall group in Tyrol .
Cricket
- January 12 : The Lancashire County Cricket Club is founded in Manchester at a meeting of 13 Lancashire cricket clubs .
- History of cricket : Overhead bowling is allowed. This is traditionally the starting point for first-class cricket .
- WG Grace makes his debut as a cricketer.
- The first edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack appears.
figure skating
- Jackson Haines wins the first ever figure skating championship in the United States.
Soccer
- January 9th : After a postponement of one week, the first official game according to the newly developed rules of the Football Association founded last year will take place in Battersea Park in London .
golf
- Old Tom Morris wins The Open Championship for the third time and receives £ 6 in prize money for the first time.
athletics
- April 23 : The British Edward Mills runs the men's mile (1609.36 meters) in 4: 20.5 minutes.
Equestrian sport
- Kentucky , the horse of the president of the organizing Saratoga Racing Association William Travers , wins the first ever Travers Stakes .
- Pauline wins the 31st Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
rowing
- March 19 : The team from Oxford University wins the regatta against Cambridge for the fourth time in a row in the time of 21'04 ″ . Oxford thus has one more victory than Cambridge.
- July 29th : After a three-year break, the Harvard-Yale regatta takes place again. For the first time in the history of the event, the team from Yale University is the winner. The winning time is 19.01 ".
chess
- October 16 : The Pest Chess Club is re-established. The composer Ferenc Erkel becomes chairman of the association, an office that he will hold until his death in 1893 .
- As in the previous two years, Max Lange wins the Congress of the West German Chess Federation , the first major German chess tournament .
- The Neue Berliner Schachzeitung appears to compete with Max Lange's chess newspaper, which moved to Leipzig in 1860 , after Gustav Richard Neumann had convinced the Berlin publisher Julius Springer that the Prussian capital should not remain without a chess magazine. The editors are initially Neumann and Adolf Anderssen .
do gymnastics
- June 8th : MTV Soltau from 1864 is founded.
- The Grafing gymnastics fire brigade is founded.
- The TSV Plön is founded.
- The TV 1864 Salzkotten is founded.
- The TV Schwetzingen 1864 is founded.
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 4 : Willie Park Junior , Scottish golfer, club maker and golf architect († 1925 )
- February 5 : Andy Bowen , American boxer († 1894 )
- February 6 : George Hillyard , British tennis player († 1943 )
- February 14 : Dickie Baugh , English football player († 1929 )
- February 21 : Leopold Hofmann , German baker, confectioner and bobsledder († 1929 )
- March 10 : Jakob Erckrath de Bary , German fencer († 1938 )
- April 10 : Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe , 1st chairman of the German Football Association († 1940 )
- April 30th : Georges Durand , French journalist and motorsport official († 1941 )
- April 30th : Léonce Girardot , French racing car driver († 1922 )
- July 7th : Johannes Pundt , German racing cyclist († 1943 )
- July 14th : Eduard Engelmann junior , Austrian figure skater († 1944 )
- August 27 : Hermann Weingärtner , German gymnast and Olympic champion († 1919 )
- October 9 : Maud Watson , British tennis player († 1946 )
- December 9 : Willoughby James Hamilton , Irish tennis and badminton player († 1943 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Jules Beau , French sports photographer († 1932 )
See also
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