1001 to 1600 in sports

none By 1600, rural folk in Great Britain had begun to play early versions of cricket, football and golf. Early in the 16th century, English public houses were showing interest in bowls and real tennis, as well as dice and cards, all of which the government tried to eliminate forcefully. According to Derek Birley, it was late in the 16th century that "licensing began to replace prohibition ... a public house might be licensed to allow men of substance to engage in dice, cards, tables, bowls, and tennis on condition that there was no blaspheming or swearing, and no play before noon on working days or during hours of religious worship on Sundays".Birley Derek Derek Birley A Social History of English Cricket 1999 Aurum 4–5 1-85410-710-0 Bandy Events c.1001–c.1100 — games that are accepted as direct predecessors to bandy have been recorded in Russian monastery records dating back to this period.http://hockeygods.com/hockeys/15-Bandy Bandy HockeyGods 2021-03-09 2021-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20210227043552/http://hockeygods.com/hockeys/15-Bandy live Boxing Events Having been popular in both ancient Greece and ancient Rome, boxing was apparently in centuries-long decline following the rise of Christianity after the fall of the Roman Empire.Michael Poliakoff http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-29781/boxing Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Boxing Britannica.com 18 May 2013 24 March 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070324175317/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-29781/boxing live "Creag" Speculation 10 March 1301 — an expenses paid item in the English royal accounts confirms that the Edward II of England, then the Prince of Wales – aged 15, was playing a game called creag at Newenden, Kent. Despite speculation that creag was an early form of cricket, there is no supportive evidence and it is much more likely that the word is an early spelling of craic, meaning "fun and games" in general, though it does confirm that games were being played, if only among aristocrats, at the end of the 13th century. Cricket Events 11th to 13th centuries — the most widely accepted theory about the origin of cricket is that it developed among children in south-east England sometime before 1300. 17 January 1597 — a court of law in Guildford heard from a 59-year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "hee and diverse of his fellows did runne and play at creckett and other plaies" on common land which was the subject of the current legal dispute, confirming that the sport was played there by schoolboys c.1550. It is perhaps significant that cricket is the only one of the "plaies" to be specifically named.Major John John Major More Than A Game 2007 HarperCollins London 19 978-0-00-718364-7Underdown David David Underdown Start of Play 2000 Allen Lane London 3 0-713-99330-8 1598 – reference to cricket in an Italian-English dictionary by Giovanni Florio. His definition of the word sgillare is: "to make a noise as a cricket, to play cricket-a-wicket, and be merry"; Florio is the first writer known to have defined "cricket" in terms of both an insect and a game.http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/ Queen Anna's New World of Words, f. 144 and f. 198 1611 Giovanni Florio 29 September 2008 2 February 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100202003602/http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/ live Curling Events 1511 — evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 uncovered (along with another bearing the date 1551) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/002022.asp Wooden Curling Stone Wisconsin Historical Society 23 February 2006 14 October 2010 5 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101105084908/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/artifacts/archives/002022.asp live February 1541 — the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice comes from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire.1074577848361541632 PaisleyMuseum A Bonspiel (a curling tournament) on Castle Semple Loch at Lochwinnoch #ArchiveAdvent The earliest recorded game of... 17 December 2018 1565 — two paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, called Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap and The Hunters in the Snow depict Dutch peasants curling.https://flemish.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2016/02/15/613/ The Flemish and the game of 'curling' – Scotland and the Flemish People flemish.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk 2021-03-09 2021-03-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20210303212437/https://flemish.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2016/02/15/613/ livehttp://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/hunters-in-the-snow.htm Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Interpretation, Analysis www.visual-arts-cork.com 2021-03-09 2020-08-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20200806231357/http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/hunters-in-the-snow.htm live https://www.paisley.org.uk/2010/02/curling-was-played-in-paisley-near-glasgow-as-early-as-1541/ Curling was played in Paisley, near Glasgow, as early as 1541 17 February 2010 9 March 2021 26 September 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200926142309/https://www.paisley.org.uk/2010/02/curling-was-played-in-paisley-near-glasgow-as-early-as-1541/ livehttps://www.scottishcurling.org/provost-celebrates-curlings-roots-at-paisley-abbey/ Provost Celebrates Curling's Roots at Paisley Abbey – Scottish Curlinghttps://www.scottishcurling.org/curling-history/history-of-the-game/ History of the Game – Scottish Curling 2021-03-09 2021-03-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20210305114411/https://www.scottishcurling.org/curling-history/history-of-the-game/ live Football Events Medieval England — huge rise in popularity of annual Shrovetide football matches, sometimes referred to as "mob football", which were played between neighbouring towns and villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams who would clash en masse,Dunning Eric Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation Routledge 1999 89 978-0-415-09378-1Dunning Eric Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation Routledge 1999 88 978-0-415-09378-1 c.1180 — William FitzStephen described London youths playing mob football on Shrove Tuesday.Stephen Alsford, FitzStephen's Description of London https://web.archive.org/web/20040322230739/http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/introduction/intro01.html#p25 2004-03-22 , Florilegium Urbanum, 5 April 2006 1308 — football was played at Newcastle, County Down, where a spectator was stabbed during a game.http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/tabId/392/itemId/2418/Irish-inventions-fact-and-fiction.aspx Irish inventions: fact and fiction Carlow-nationalist.ie 2012-04-16 dead https://archive.today/20120729154246/http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/tabId/392/itemId/2418/Irish-inventions-fact-and-fiction.aspx 2012-07-29 1314 — Nicholas de Farndone, Lord Mayor of the City of London issued a decree banning football.Birley Derek Derek Birley Sport and The Making of Britain 1993 Manchester University Press 32 978-0719037597 https://archive.org/details/sportmakingofbri0000birl/page/32 1349 — King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning "...handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games".Derek Baker (England in the Later Middle Ages). 1995. Boydell & Brewer. p. 187. 978-0-85115-648-4 1424 — the Scottish Parliament of James I banned 'fute-ball' in the Football Act 1424.Craigie William A. William Craigie A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth Aberdeen University Press, Oxford University Press 16th century — Calcio Fiorentino began in Florence.Halpern, J. Balls and Blood, Sports Illustrated. Vol 109, No. 4: August 4, 2008, p. 42. Golf Theory of origin 12th century — the most widely accepted theory is that golf (as practiced today) originates from Scotland in the 12th century with shepherds knocking stones into rabbit holes on the site now occupied by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.https://www.randa.org/TheRandA/Playing-Golf/Playing-golf-in-St-Andrews The R&A – Playing golf in St Andrews 2021-03-09 2020-12-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20201203102048/https://www.randa.org/TheRandA/Playing-Golf/Playing-golf-in-St-Andrews dead The real origin of golf, however, is uncertain and open to debate.https://www.britannica.com/sports/golf Golf sport 2021-03-09 2021-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20210415084002/https://www.britannica.com/sports/golf live Horse racing Events 1174 — the first recorded race meeting in England was during the reign of Henry II at Smithfield, London during a horse fair.https://books.google.com/books?id=28Y7AwAAQBAJ&q=henry+ii+smith+field+race+1174&pg=PT8 London's Markets: From Smithfield to Portobello Road 9780752497396 Halliday Stephen 3 March 2014 1512 — it is believed that the first occurrence of a trophy being presented to the winner of a race was by organisers of a fair in Chester; it was a small wooden bat or a ball decorated with flowers.https://www.gamblingsites.com/horse-racing/uk-ireland/history/ History of British Horse Racing - Beginnings and How It Has Evolved 2021-03-09 2021-09-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20210916220458/https://www.gamblingsites.com/horse-racing/uk-ireland/history/ live https://books.google.com/books?id=s6kKJbvQDUkC&q=1512+chester+trophy+ball&pg=PA313 Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing 9781135762667 Kay Dr Joyce Vamplew Professor Wray 2 October 2012 16 September 2021 16 September 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210916220458/https://books.google.com/books?id=s6kKJbvQDUkC&q=1512+chester+trophy+ball&pg=PA313 live early 16th century — Henry VIII imported a large number of stallions and mares for breeding, http://anequestrianlife.com/2020/03/king-henry-viii-and-his-horses/ King Henry VIII and His Horses 17 March 2020 9 March 2021 17 January 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210117040656/http://anequestrianlife.com/2020/03/king-henry-viii-and-his-horses/ live although it was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that modern methods of thoroughbred breeding were introduced. https://www.globetrotting.com.au/horse-breed-thoroughbred/ Horse Breed: Thoroughbred 31 January 2018 9 March 2021 12 March 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210312162850/https://www.globetrotting.com.au/horse-breed-thoroughbred/ live Mesoamerican ballgame Events 1528 — soon after the Spanish conquest, Hernán Cortés sent a troupe of ōllamanime (ballplayers) to Spain to perform for Charles V where they were drawn by the German Christoph Weiditz. Besides the fascination with their exotic visitors, the Europeans were amazed by the bouncing rubber balls.Garza Camino, Mercedes de la Ana Luisa Izquierdo 1980 El Ullamaliztli en el Siglo XVI Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 315–333 0071-1675 es References Category:Medieval sports