Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1879. 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

around May 1879, when the Britons and some members of the city's high society agreed to form a society dedicated to cricket and football, the Cricket...

Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879. Yale player Walter Camp, now regarded as the "Father of American Football", secured...

adopted a slightly modified version of the Victorian game in 1879. The South Australian Football Association (SAFA), the sport's first governing body, formed...

Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. The Naval Academy's football program is one of the nation's oldest, with its history dating back to 1879. There were two separate efforts...

The 1879 Victorian Football Association season was the third season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong...

FC St. Gallen 1879 is the oldest active football club in Switzerland and the second oldest in continental Europe, founded on 19 April 1879 as FC St. Gallen...

June 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022. "1879-1880: cricket, fútbol y atletismo en Madrid" [1879-1880: cricket, football and athletics in Madrid] (in Spanish)...

non-British football associations in Europe.[self-published source?] The first Dutch football club was formed in 1879 in Haarlem. The Netherlands Football League...

Netherlands the first football match was played in 1865 in Enschede. This was followed by the founding of Koninklijke HFC by Pim Mulier in 1879. The Koninklijke...

against Chile from 1879 to 1883. After the war, Peru's coastal society embraced football as a modern innovation. In Lima's barrios, football became a popular...

merging with the football section of a local cricket club called Blakenhall Wanderers to form Wolverhampton Wanderers in August 1879. Having initially...

suffered from malaria - the field name "En Palud" testifies to this. A dike was built between 1863 and 1879 to dry out around 9,000 hectares of land...

林金山 30 November 1916 20 July 2006 Politician Lim Nee Soon 林義順 12 November 1879 20 March 1936 Businessman, banker, clan leader, Justice of Peace Lim Swee...

Ruiz (13 October 1879 – 10 May 1959) was the founder and first president of the Real Club Deportivo Español. He was also a footballer for the club between...

badminton, swimming and pétanque. Football and cricket has been played in KB since 1879, meaning that KB's football team was the first club on continental...

William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born...

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1879), Solicitor General of the United States: 127  Oliver David Thompson (1879), lawyer, American football player and manager: 1347 ...

Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional football club based in...

Bangladeshi actor Nur Ahmed Nur (born 1937), Afghan communist Rıza Nur (1879–1942), Turkish surgeon Viive Noor (born 1955), Estonian illustrator and curator...

and sculptures all around the auditorium. It was inaugurated on 25 January 1879 with a performance by Sarah Bernhardt dressed as a nymph. The first opera...

and the Holy See; the union was not actually accomplished, however, until 1879. Small Jewish and Hindu minorities are also present in the city. Like Melilla...

lyrics under the title "La Marseillaise de la Commune". Eight years later, in 1879, it was restored as France's national anthem, and has remained so ever since...

been formed in Madrid only after the proto-club Cricket and Football Club of Madrid of 1879. Local historians discovered about the existence of this society...

Salvador (Spanish: Himno Nacional de El Salvador) was adopted on 15 September 1879 and officially approved on 11 December 1953. The lyrics were written by General...

Nicknamed Sascha. Never married. William Frederick Henry "the Navigator" (1820–1879). Married firstly Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and secondly Princess...

surprise de L1 en renfort (officiel)". Afrik-Foot. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daouda Guindo. Daouda Guindo at JMG Football Daouda Guindo at...

his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879. 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the...

Esmeralda 1879 (Spanish: La Esmeralda 1879) (2010) – Chilean historical drama film about the naval Battle of Iquique, which took place on May 21, 1879 in the...

Luke Lea (April 12, 1879 – November 18, 1945) was an American attorney, politician and newspaper publisher. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service...