1830s in sports

Table of contents

1 Baseball 2 Boat race 3 Horse racing 4 Events 5 Births 6 Deaths

Baseball

• Possible date of the codification of the first rules of baseball by Abner Doubleday (1839)

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Cambridge (1836 and 1839)
• First Henley Royal Regatta rowing race is held (1839)

• Believed to be the first running of the Aintree Grand National, won by The Duke (1836)

• Croquet believed to have been invented in Ireland