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1877:

Tennis as we know it was dreamed up in the 1870s by the inventor Major Walter Wingfield.

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1919-21:

America’s relationship with baseball could be expressed as a turbulent love affair.

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1891-93:

Of all the major sports in the USA, only basketball can claim to be a truly original North American invention.

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1882:

The Ashes urn, the smallest trophy in world sport, is cricket’s biggest prize.

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1863:

The invention of rugby is popularly attributed to an impulsive Rugby School pupil, William Webb-Ellis.

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1860:

The Open Championship is the world’s oldest and most prestigious golf tournament.

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1789:

It took a young boxer in 18th Century England to invent the “noble art” as we know it today.

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1654:

Cricket probably started during the Middle Ages, evolving from games such as stoolball.

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1536:

Tennis was originally an indoor game championed by England’s most notorious Royal divorcee King Henry VIII.

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1850:

Skiing was born out of the need to survive harsh winters in the northern hemisphere thousands of years ago.

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1661:

Horse racing only took off as an organised event in Britain after the restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

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1567:

Golf's origins are a source of great pride in Scotland, which lays claim to being the home of golf.

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490 BC:

The Battle of Marathon in 490BC inspired the world’s most celebrated long distance race.

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25000 BC:

Most people on Earth have played sport. Most people watch it. But how and when did it start?

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2155:

Time travel has been a fertile area for science fiction writers for more than a century – and is possible in theory.

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2034:

A majority of climate scientists believe global warming is the biggest issue facing mankind.

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1991:

The World Wide Web was invented quietly and almost single-handedly by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

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1978:

Before July 25th 1978, everyone ever born had been conceived with sperm and an egg combining inside a woman’s uterus.

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