Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1820s in sports, 1840s in sports and the list of 'years 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) Boat race Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Cambridge (1836 and 1839) Horse racing Believed to be the first running of the Aintree Grand National, won by The Duke (1836) Events Croquet believed to have been invented in Ireland Births Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.