Chronology of football

roots of football (before 1835) - beginnings of football (1835-1870) - 1871 in football ---- the roots of football recover one period when the play of football knows its genesis, sometimes nebulous.

Chronology

• Antiquity :
• the Chinese soldiers practice a play called Cuju (see) with a round ball consisting to juggle and carry out master keys; no goals, not of winners, just a physical exercise of maintenance for the soldiers. There exists later the same thing with the Japan under the name of Kemari (see) (which one has illustrations of the XIXe century) but practiced by the noble ones.
• the Greek also knew plays of ball to the foot: Aporrhaxis and Phéninde with Athens and épiscyre with Sparte.
• 40 : The poet Romain Martial evokes four plays of ball practiced by the Romans: paganica crushed, crushed trigonalis, follis and harpastum. Last the city is at the origin of Calcio Florentin, which authorizes the use of the hands to carry the balloon. The harpastum is probably at the origin of the drunk Frenchwoman then English football.
• 1066 : William the Conqueror takes foot in England. Probable introduction of the drunk French (undoubtedly Picardy) on the other side of the channel.
• 1147 : First mention written of drunk in France. The play opposes two teams which dispute a balloon that it is necessary to deposit with an aim. It was certainly virile, very virile even, but all the blows were not allowed, as it is too often believed. The drunk one, which passes today for unmethodical and forces, in fact was very codified and not so barbarian that famous “the letters of remission” imply it. The cases evoked by these sources all, definition, of the legal affairs, with their troops of are wounded and even of deaths giving, wrongly, the image of a violent ultra fray. As announce it thus many plaintiffs, “it is like that only one practices the Drunk one”.
• 1174 : Publication in England of Life of saint Thomas Becket of William Fitzstephen which mentions the current practice of the sets of balloons on the other side of the channel (drunk/football).
• April 13rd 1314 : The mayor of London proclaims the prohibition of the practice of football (drunk) “because of the great disorders caused in the City”.
• 1331 : The king of England Edouard III prohibits the practice of football (drunk) and recommends on his subjects the exclusive practice of the shooting to the arc.
• June 12th 1365 : Schedule of king d' Angleterre Edouard III which prohibits the practice of football (drunk)… without great effects!
• 1409 : First use of the word “foteball” in English by the English King in a prohibition by the mayor of London.
• 1414 : One year before famous the Battle of Azincourt which marks the final triumph of the archers (English) on the heavy cavalry formed in the tournaments (French), the king of England points out the prohibition of the practice of football (drunk) and orders on his subjects to practice the shooting with the arc.
• 1422 : Prohibition by the municipal authorities of Arras, then under English occupation, of the practice of the drunk one.
• 1440 : Raoul, bishop of the Trégor, prohibited practice of drunk in its diocese… The text of Raoul specifies that this play was practiced for a long time in Brittany.
• January 1491 : First trace of part of Calcio Florentin, but this Italian version of drunk has been practiced for at least several decades. Poems indeed evoke the play as of the medium of XVe century.
• Years 1490 : The first description of a match and a football field. The balloon was striking only with the foot (and precisely not with the hand). In Cawston, in England.
• 1555 : Oxford prohibits the practice of football (drunk) to its students.
• 1574 : Cambridge prohibits the practice of football (drunk) to its students.
• 1575 : Most of Calcio Florentin given to Lyon in the honor of Henri III.
• 1580 : Publication of the Treaty on Calcio Florentin de Giovanni De Bardi.
• 1581 : Richard Mulcaster the main thing of several schools in England describes the “foteball” as set of small teams of pupils who had positions on the ground. It is the first to describe a referee and even a coach. Mulcuster provides the first obviousnesses of a play of football which was really overcome. He tells the advantages of the play on the health of the pupils.
• 1584 : 40.000 spectators attend most of Calcio Florentin given at the time of the weddings of Éléonore de Médicis and Vincent Ier Gonzaga.
• 1607 : Proclamation in Italy of a law aiming to the maintenance of law and order during the matches of Calcio Florentin: “All the spectators must remain in their place; nobody must penetrate on the playing field. The contraveners must be apprehended and punished of a fine”.
• 1615 : New proclamation of the mayor of London pointing out the prohibition of the practice of football (drunk) in the city.
• 1643 - 1647 : Robert Matthew (who studied with the College of Winchester in England between 1643 and 1647) described later the play of football like “innocent” and “legal”.
• 1676 : Tommaso Rinuccini publishes a Warning statement against the decline of the calcio considering it regrettable that the play was not practiced any more by the young people.
• 1686 : The Parliament of Brittany points out the prohibition of the practice of drunk, “this cursed play”.
• February 17th 1689 : Most of Calcio Florentin enters a “European” team and an “Asian” team. Europeans assert themselves.
• March 14th 1739 : Last most of Calcio Florentin given at the time of the visit in Leghorn of Frederic Ier of Lorraine and Marie-Therese of Austria.
• 1747 : The folk football (football of the people) is practiced in England in the Schools Public like Eton.
• 1749 : The folk football is practiced in England in the Schools Public like Westminster.
• 1831 : Publication in England of Reminiscences off Eton where a former student of famous College specifies that “football cannot be considered a sport of gentleman; after all, the small people of Yorkshire also play there… ”.
• 1835 : Highway Act in Great Britain which prohibits the practice of the folk football in the streets.
• 1835 : The practice of drunk in Brittany is confined from now on with the only Country of Lorient where parts take place until 1914.

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