The first-ever cricket County Championship started, finishing with Yorkshire beating Gloucestershire.
The Football League meets for the first time.
Aston Villa's director, William McGregor, formed the English Football League.
George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
Modern hockey is born.
General Laborer Thomas Stevens started his first bicycle trip around the world.
When Cubs' player Billy Sunday played his first game, he struck out four times.
The first-ever inaugural US National Championship for tennis occurred in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
The world's first black international football player, Andrew Watson, played his first of three matches in Scotland.
The first-ever Wimbledon Championship began.
Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
The world's first international soccer match took place.
England and Scotland compete in the first international rugby match.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game, winning with 45-9 against the Great Westerns of Cincinnati.
French inventor Pierre Lallement was awarded his patent for a pedal bicycle.
Charles Blondin became the first person to cross Niagara Falls by walking across a tightrope.
The National Association of Baseball Players was established in New York.
The world's first chess tournament is held in London.
The first-ever all-female golf tournament was held.
The world's first recorded parachute jump occurred from 3,300 feet (1,000 m) above Paris.
A first-of-its-kind boxing match took place to settle a feud between a butler and a butcher.
The US held its first horse race in Long Island, New York.
