Sports year 1866
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 under the London Prize Ring Rules . |
Events
Alpinism
- June: The English alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett and the Swiss mountain guide Melchior Anderegg are the first to climb the Hintere Rotspitze .
- September 12th : Julius Payer and mountain guide Johann Pinggera manage the first ascent of the Tuckettspitze .
- September 29th : Julius Payer and Johann Pinggera are the first to climb Monte Zebrù .
- Josef Anton Specht manages the first ascent of the 3,089 m high Vesulspitze in the Samnaun group in Tyrol .
- Edward Digby and Peter Jenny manage the first secure ascent of Piz Palü .
baseball
Soccer
- Upton Park FC football club is founded in London .
- The offside rule in football is modified: Passes forward are now allowed. A player is only offside if he has fewer than three players from the opposing team in front of him.
- The first verifiable derby in football history takes place between local rivals Nottingham Forest and Notts County FC .
rowing
- February 7th : The Hamburg rowing club Allemannia is founded.
- March 24th : Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 25′35 ″.
- July 26 : Harvard defeats Yale in Harvard-Yale regatta in 18'43.5 ".
Others
- December 11th to 24th : James Gordon Bennett Junior wins the first transoceanic race of three American sailing yachts from New Jersey to England with his yacht Henrietta .
- The Bohemian Wilhelm Steinitz defeated the unofficial world chess champion Adolf Anderssen from Prussia in a hard-fought competition in London and is from then on considered the world's best chess player . In the same year he also defeated the Englishman Henry Edward Bird .
- Willie Park Senior wins for the third time after 1860 and 1863 The Open Championship in golf .
- After the English boxing champion Tom King retired, Jem Mace is again recognized as the English champion after his victory over Joe Gross . He is the last master of the London Prize Ring Rules of bare-knuckle fights .
- Harlequin Rugby Football Club in London is founded.
- Adalbert wins the 33rd Union race on the Tempelhofer Feld .
- The first Elm mountain gymnastics festival is held.
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 14 : William Townley , English football player and coach († 1950 )
- February 24 : Hubert Van Innis , Belgian archer and Olympic champion († 1961 )
- May 30 : Fernand Charron , French cyclist and automobile racing driver († 1928 )
- August 15 : Italo Santelli , Italian fencer and Olympian († 1945 )
- September 1 : James J. Corbett , American boxer († 1933 )
- October 15 : Konishiki Yasokichi , Japanese sumo wrestler and 17th yokozuna († 1914 )
- October 25 : Theodor Siebert , German strength athlete, author and life reformer, pioneer of bodybuilding and modern weightlifting († 1961 )
- November 25th : Franjo Bučar , Croatian writer and sports official; Father of Olympic Sports in Croatia († 1946 )
- December 18 : Holger Louis Nielsen , Danish fencer, marksman and athlete († 1955 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Tilemachos Karakalos , Greek fencer and Olympian († 1951 )
