The philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, died in Metapontum.

For many crimes the punishment was death. Draco introduced a new set of harsher laws which were written down for all to read. The laws of Athens had previously been a set of oral laws. Known as tyrants they seized power from the aristocracy and took over rule in their stead.

The rule of aristocratic leaders was challenged by lesser aristocrats or wealthy tradesmen who wanted to overthrow the monopoly of the aristocrats.

The first Messenian war ended in victory for the Spartans This was a disagreement between the Messenians and the Spartans that led to war There was one event – the men’s 200m sprint. The Iliad is an epic poem set in the Trojan War while the Odyssey tells the story of the adventures of Odysseus on his return from the Trojan war.įirst recorded Olympic games. Homer composed his poems – the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet. The Dorians had iron weapons which they use to good effect to defeat and conquer the Mycenaeans. Mycenaean Greece was invaded by Dorian tribesmen from the north. The famous orange flash was later added for greater on pitch visibility.The Trojan war ended when the Greeks used a wooden horse to invade and overrun the Trojan city of Troy In the 1960s Grays launched the first Karachi King, which set the gold standard in hockey sticks for 30 years. The earliest known image of a Grays stick & ball is from a brochure released in 1890:-īy the 1950s technology was being included in hockey sticks with the Grays Super Blue featuring a damp-proof head:. Men’s hockey was included in the Olympics for the first time in London in 1908 when England (not GB) won the gold medal – women were not included until 1980. The first recorded women’s international match was also England v Ireland in Dublin but it was the Irish who won 2-0. However, the sport was played in schools for some 25 years prior to this.Įngland’s first men’s international hockey match took place in 1895 against Ireland and England won 5-0. The organised game that we know today undoubtedly started in the mid-1800s with the oldest hockey club, Blackheath Football and Hockey Club’ being formed in 1861. Players were allowed to tackle using the body as long as it was ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’. In shinty, however, players were allowed to use both sides of the stick, called a Caman. The Scottish sport of Shinty started in the 17 th and 18 th Century and has many similarities to hockey. This relief from ancient Greece from around 510 BC depicts a ball game that resembles hockey. The origins of hockey go back to antiquity with a form of the game played in Egypt 4000 years ago, in Iran in 2000 BC and Ethiopia around 1000 BC.

Greek games 2000 b.c