1820s in sports
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See also: 1810s in sports, 1830s in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.

Boat race

• First Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race contested - won by Oxford (1829)

Rugby football

• William Webb Ellis said to have invented rugby (1823)

Births

Deaths

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