national football competition is the English FA Cup (1871). The Football League (1888) is recognised as the longest running association football league...

this lead and did not join the FA, and instead in 1871, along with Blackheath, formed the Rugby Football Union. The FA rules included handling of the ball...

of the first competition and oldest existing trophy in football, the Youdan Cup. On 20 July 1871, C. W. Alcock, a gentleman from Sunderland and a former...

placed on the nearby Dam Square in 1911, and was declared a Rijksmonument. In 1871, the impressionist painter Claude Monet lived in Zaandam for approximately...

The oldest football clubs trace their origins to the mid-19th century, a period when football evolved from being a casual pastime to an organised mainstream...

Vancouver Island (which had been united in 1866) joined the confederation in 1871 on the promise of a transcontinental railway extending to Victoria in the...

College), 1871 ("The Oxford Association") and 1872 (Notts County). There were attempts to introduce the one-player rule of the Sheffield Football Association...

Frederick Collin (1871), judge, mayor of Elmira, New York: 9  Edwin Forrest Sweet (1871), US Representative from Michigan: 15  Thomas Thacher (1871), lawyer William...

expanding Paris to its current limits. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), Paris was besieged by the Prussian Army. Following several months of blockade...

city in 1681, after the conquest of Alsace by the armies of Louis XIV. In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, the city became German again, until 1918...

just the FA Cup. The FA Cup was inaugurated in 1871 and is therefore the oldest tournament in club football. The original trophy, however, was stolen in...

to buy back the club. HIFK Fotboll Tampere United TamU-K Ménilmontant FC 1871 SC Bastia – The Corsican club became a cooperative society of collective...

footballer Maxi Biancucchi, footballer Ludovico Bidoglio, footballer Marcelo Bielsa, football coach Lucas Biglia, footballer Carlos Bilardo, football...

From 1619 until 1871, Hiroshima was ruled by the Asano clan. Gallery Mitaki-dera Fudoin Hiroshima Castle After the Han was abolished in 1871, the city became...

Indian actor Rudolf Roy (born 1920), German tank commander Sarat Chandra Roy (1871–1942), Indian Bengali anthropologist Satabdi Roy (born 1968), Indian Bengali...

Officer, politician, and statesman; Governor-General of the Philippines from 1871 to 1873 Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola (1831–1888) a Spanish jurist, amateur...

beverage that Uruguayans take to all manner of places. José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), a modernist, is considered Uruguay's most significant literary figure...

historian Manuel Bartolomé Cossío (1857-1935), educator Lucrecia Arana (1871-1927), singer José María Mazón Sainz (1901-1981), politician Eduardo Fajardo...

Sea. 1871 – British Columbia joins the Canadian Confederation. 1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under...

of the Netherlands belongs to the ecoregion of Atlantic mixed forests. In 1871, the last old original natural woods were cut down. These woods were planted...

convicts included many Communards, arrested after the failed Paris Commune of 1871, including Henri de Rochefort and Louise Michel. Between 1873 and 1876, 4...

football" whilst the clubs that had favoured the Rugby Rules formed the Rugby Football Union in 1871, and their code became known as "rugby football"...

rest of Alsace, Colmar was annexed by the newly formed German Empire in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and incorporated into the Alsace-Lorraine...

harbour stretches back to the 15th century, the first jetty was built in 1871 and it became an important gateway for the export of raisins. The raisin...

Honduras Football War Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1871 Embajadas, Consulados y Misiones Permanentes de la República de El Salvador Embajada de Honduras en El...

World Almanac 2004, p156 "Farc asume responsabilidad en homicidio de Álvaro Gómez Hurtado y en otros cinco casos". Archived from the original on 2022-03-18...

against England of 19 November 1870, 25 February 1871 and 18 November 1871. The Queen's Park football club players R. Smith and J. Smith were named amongst...

(2011). Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871. Indiana University Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-253-35660-4. Price, Marie;...

chef sommelier. Gilles Sunu (born 1991), footballer Jean Lauron [fr] (1560–1620), poet Pierre Leroux (1797–1871), philosopher and politician Napoléon Chaix [fr]...

first held in 1871, is the oldest national cup competition in the world. It is open to around 600 clubs in levels 1–10 of the football pyramid. The FA...