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King James I of Scotland passes a law banning the game.
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with evidence of soccer being played in china in the years 200-300 B.C. soccer is one of the oldest surviving sports
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rumors say the first soccer ball used in englad was the head of a danish brigand. It is said that during medieval times, the old form of soccer used to allow many ill practices like kicking, punching, biting and gouging.
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In Italy they played a game called "calcio" with teams of 27+ people. The game involved kicking, carrying or passing a ball across a goal line. In 1580, Giovanni Bardi published a set of rules of the game of calcio.
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soccer became legal again in England.
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In North America, native American Indians in the original Jamestown settlement played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." It was a rough game, played the beach, the field a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, with as many as 1000 players at a time.
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Eton College of England established a set of rules for the games
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The rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, college and universities, known as the Cambridge Rules
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October 26 of 1863, the Football Association was formed when eleven London schools and clubs came together at the Freemason's Tavern to establish a single set of rules to administer any football match that were to be played among them. On December 8 1863, Association Football and Rugby Football finally split onto two different organizations.
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Soccer played the Olympic Games for the first time
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Establishment of FIFA by delegates from France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland at a meeting in Paris on the 21st of May.
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The American women's team won the first-ever women's soccer event at the Olympics
