The timeline of ice/field hockey

By Daniel.mentone
  • 2000 BCE

    Hockey Was Discovered

  • Period: 1999 BCE to 1399

    No Documented records

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Hockey banned in england

  • British empire reengages hockey

    British soldier's played hockey during the British empire taking over all of the now. dismantled british colonies.

  • ice hockey established

    The first time ice hockey played ever

  • First professional hockey club

    First professional hockey club was the portage lake hockey club establishd by Jack Doc Gibson

  • First Stanley cup

  • Hockey goes mainstream

    In the 1908 Olympics in london was the first ever time the sport was played on an international level

  • FIH created

    The FIH also known as the International Hockey Federation was first mad in Paris in 1924 In French it would be called Federation International de Hockey.

  • NHL

    The NHL was created.

  • offside rule created for NHL

  • First game of televised hockey

  • First black hockey player.

  • Synthetic turf

    For the first time since hockey was crated instead of playing on grass, they played on synthetic turf which cut the need for mowing down the grass.