TIME LINE PRE-1800'S

TIME LINE PRE-1800'S

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PROMOTING THE FUTURE OF CHECKERS AND DRAUGHTS, BY GLORIFYING ITS PAST !!

COMPLETE TIMELINE OF ALL MAJOR CHECKER EVENTS

Our intention is to produce the most comprehensive, detailed and up to date timeline of major events in Checkers/Draughts history.

And with this, we could use any help that YOU could provide !!!

If you see any errors in the timeline , please e-mail me at jayhinnershitz@yahoo.com and I will correct it.

Also, please feel free to send us anything that we are missing....ANYTHING you send us will be included. We can use all the help we can get in producing , and making this the greatest Checkers/Draughts History Timeline ever produced !!

"In the beginning there was 11-15"

DEREK OLDBURY

OLD DRAUGHTS PRINTS - Pre 1756

Located in Wellcome Library , London

Title details: Four men gathered around a table, an old man in a cloak and a man with a document standing, the other two playing a game of draughts / Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.
[Lettering : Characters who frequented Button's coffee-house about the year 1720 Hogarth del: Sam: Ireland fecit ]
Cite as Wellcome Library no. 544375i
Summary: The identification of the persons present is questionable

V0040235 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Two men are sitting outside a cottage playing a game of draughts, a woman is standing in the doorway holding a baby and a jug. Engraving by Chs. Beyer.
Library reference no.: ICV No 40807

1756

"AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS" BY WILLIAM PAYNE IS PUBLISHED IN LONDON.

THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK ON THE GAME PRINTED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IT INCLUDES A DEDICATION TO THE EARL OF ROCHFORD WRITTEN BY SAMUEL JOHNSON.

1794

6/2- ISRAEL COHEN VS. H. BEAUMONT 1-0-19 at LONDON.

THIS IS THE EARLIEST RECORD OF A MATCH SCORE.