• The 3rd Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 3 April 1839. It was the second of the University Boat Races to be held on the River Thames, this time...
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    The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between...
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    Pierre le Pelley III (category 1839 deaths)
    Sark (1799–1839) was Seigneur of Sark from 1820 to 1839. He drowned when the boat carrying him to Guernsey was lost in a tidal race just off the coast of...
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    The 5th Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 14 April 1841. It was the fourth of the University Boat Races, a side-by-side rowing competition between...
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    The Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing competition between the men's senior boat clubs of the University of Oxford (sometimes referred to as the "Dark...
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  • The 11th Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 3 April 1852. Typically held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from...
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  • The 15th Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 27 March 1858. Typically held annually, the event is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from...
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  • 1839 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events 12 February — William "Bendigo" Thompson defeats James Burke, who is disqualified for...
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  • The 4th Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 15 April 1840. It was the third of the University Boat Races to be held on the Thames, between Westminster...
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  • The 2nd Boat Race took place on the River Thames on 17 June 1836. It was the first of the University Boat Races to be held in London, on a five-and-three-quarter-mile...
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    Rowing (sport) (category Boating)
    to race, which the Providence group summarily won. The six-man core of that group went on in 1838 to found NBC. Detroit Boat Club was founded in 1839 and...
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    Tan was apparently the name. Tanka boat, a boat of the kind in which these people live. 1839 Chinese Repository 7 506 The small boats of Tanka women are...
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    tradition where each new boat would be given a name. In the first Henley Regatta of 1839, Brasenose competed in the only race, the Grand Challenge, against...
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  • This is a list of the Oxford University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. A coxswain or oarsman earns their rowing...
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    Johnny Farrell, second engineer of the Natchez: "This old idea about the two boats preparing for days for the race, tearing down bulkheads, putting up...
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    for the university against Cambridge University in the Boat Race and the Women's Boat Race. Barney Williams, a Canadian rower who studied at the college...
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    Waka (canoe) (category Indigenous boats)
    that ship's boats were far more commonly available and were increasingly used by Māori in preference to waka. In 1839 100 ships visited The Bay of Islands...
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    The Detroit Boat Club was established in 1839, as a sport rowing club. It was first created on the Detroit River during a time in which Detroit was just...
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    History of The First Trinity Boat Club, which is available online in its entirety. In 1839 First Trinity won the Grand Challenge Cup in the first Henley...
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  • Ran Laurie (category Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics)
    disease in 1998 at the age of 83. List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews Laurie, Andrew (8 November 2019). "Alan Laurie obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077...
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    sporting event (following the first Varsity Cricket Match by 2 years). The interest in the first Boat Race and subsequent matches led the town of Henley to begin...
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    list of the Cambridge University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. Rowers are listed left to right in boat position...
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  • G. A. H. Branson (category Cambridge University Boat Club rowers)
    degree in the Classical Tripos and was also Captain of First Trinity and a rowing blue, taking the bow of the Cambridge Boat for the Boat Race of 1893....
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    early 19th century and the first official event being known to have happened in 1839, complete with military bands. The boat club was finally officially...
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    Charles Wordsworth (category Oxford University Boat Club rowers)
    instigated both the University cricket match in 1826 and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in 1829. Wordsworth was born in Lambeth, the son of the Rev. Christopher...
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  • John Campbell (rower) (category Cambridge University Boat Club rowers)
    in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Campbell was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in...
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    Henley Royal Regatta (category 1839 establishments in England)
    hall on 26 March 1839, Captain Edmund Gardiner proposed "that from the lively interest which had been manifested at the various boat races which have...
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    Kenner. The Spring Meeting of The Metairie Jockey Club for 1839 over the Metairie Course commenced on Tuesday, March 26, and lasted for six days. The First...
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    He was one of the main instigators of the inaugural Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race which took place at Henley in 1829. Merivale was the second son of...
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  • Middleton The Derby – Bay Middleton The Oaks – Cyprian St. Leger Stakes – Elis The Boat Race 17 June — the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, first held...
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