 Backgammon Timeline
One thousand years approximately before the birth of Christ, people
were playing backgammon. In fact down through the ages and throughout
the civilizations, backgammon has featured in one form or another.
It's an odd fact, to think that a game that was first conjured up all
those centuries ago has survived for so long, relatively unchanged or
unscathed.
Now today, in our state of the art computer generated digitalized
world that we live in backgammon is played more than ever, both online
and offline.
It is an indictment that as much as we try and progress sometimes we
just can't improve on the original.
A Backgammon Timeline Plus Other Games
3000BC - Dating from around this time The Royal Game of Ur the oldest
complete set of gaming equipment ever found - The Egyptiona Senet
appears around 4th cent. B.C. Mancala-styled type boards are produced
in the Sahara region the first possible derivative of backgammon.
2000 BC-The Chinese create Wei-qi, later it becomes 'Go' in Japan.
1800 BC- Egyptian tombs - Dogs and Jackals game are found.
1400 BC-Morris and Mancala boards discovery Temple of Kurna, Egypt.
700 BC-Earliest records of cubical Dice - the prerequisite of
backgammon dice possibly.
Birth of Christ-Record of Emperor Claudius playing Tabula (Early
backgammon) First documentary evidence of the game being played.
300's -Babylonian Talmud quotes Nard a Backgammon variant in the.
400's-Loss by Emperor Zeno in Tabula (early Backgammon) Scandinavia
records Hnefatafl games .
600's - Go (Wei-qi) arrives in Japan from China 4th, or 6th Century.
700's -Chess arrives in Persia from India circa. 650-850 AD
900's - Tafl-type Fidchell game board carved in or around the 10th
century Early Welsh literature mentions a tafl-type? game called
Tawlbwrdd.
1100's - 3-in-a-row games start appearing throughout Europe Around
this time The Isle of Lewis Chessmen are carved.
1200's- Alphonso X's 'Book of Games' written circa 1283.A compendium
of games appears, which features,Chess, Tables (Backgammon) Morris,
Alquerque, plus the Fox Game one of the early descendants of Snakes
and Ladders games is played in India
1300's- Playing cards appear in Spain about 1371.
1400's -Tarot games Italy.
1430's - A version of 12- Man Morris appears.
1440's - Poch card game, ancestor to Rummy Royale, Michigan Rummy.
1480 First signs of standard card decks including all suits hearts
clubs spades diamonds made in France.
1600's -Modern Cribbage rules standardized in England. Louis XI.holds
court with first solitaire board games. 1645 Oxford English Dictionary
quotes 'Tables' as the first recorded variation reference to
'Backgammon',
1700's -Pope Joan card game -1730's.- Cartomancy fortune telling, with
cards or tarot decks 1765.
1800's - Bridge games begins as derivative of Whist. The game of Poker
recorded in print, 1836
1850's-1863 - Ludo published in England based on Indian Pachisi (Parcheesi).Chinese
Checkers published
1892 - Snakes & ladders around same time in England
1900- The Landlord's Game - original Monopoly patented
1904/ Lexico invented 1931 - renamed Scrabble 1947
1920 -The Doubling cube first introduced.The game of Othello published
in Japan 1968, related to 19th century Reversi.
1930 - Change of rules introduced to modern game of backgammon.
1960 - First World Championships hosted in Caribbean Cathedral
invented by a New Zealand man in 1962,bought by games publisher 1979.
1970's- Backgammon's halcyon Days Dungeons & Dragons published 1974
Trivial Pursuit was first conceived on December 15, 1979, becoming
commercial in 1981.
1990's -First Internet Backgammon Server) was created in 1993 by
Andreas Schneider.
2000's - Online backgammon sites begin - www.play65.com becomes
largest online backgammon room. Party Gammon announces first One
Million Dollar Tournament.
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