October 26 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1863
The Football Association is founded
In the Freemasons' Tavern in London, eleven clubs found the Football Association and agree the first unified rules of association football. The hacking and handling of the old school games are out. The world's game gets its rulebook.
1881
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
In Tombstone, Arizona, the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday face the Clanton gang in a thirty-second shootout that echoes through history. Three men die. The West's most famous gunfight lasts half a minute -- the legend lasts forever.