Table of contents

1 Auto racing 2 Boat race 3 Cricket 4 Events 5 Births 6 Deaths

Auto racing

• First real autorace, from Paris to Bordeaux.

• Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

• February 9 - W.G. Morgan invents volleyball.
• October 4 - first US Open golf tournament played.
• Twenty-one rugby union clubs in northern England split to form the Northern Rugby Union, forerunner of rugby league

Deaths