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Crude forms of hockey were played in Egypt and Ethiopia as many as 4000 years ago.
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The formal rules of hockey were first established in the UK in 1876 by the first-ever hockey association.
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On March 22, 1894, the first ever Stanley Cup game was played in Montreal, Canada. The winning team was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.
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The International Ice Hockey Federation was founded in 1908, consisting of France, Britain, Belgium, Bohemia, Switzerland, and Germany.
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The 1920 Olympics in Antwerp were the first to have an international hockey championship. Canada and the United States competed along with the IIHF members in the tournament.
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The United States becomes the only country other than Canada to win an IIHF World Championship.
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In the 1980 Olympics, an American college team won a game against the Soviet Union's Olympic Team, 4 goals to 3 at Lake Placid. They went on to win a gold medal and break the Soviet Union's 8 gold streak.
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The first ever World Cup of Hockey (which replaced the Canada Cup) is won by the United States in 1996.
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Sweden became the first country to win both an Olympic gold and a world championship in hockey in the same year.
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To celebrate 100 years, the IIHF holds its world championship in Quebec City for the first world championship in Canada.
