1780s in sports
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See also: 1770s in sports, 1790s in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
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Cricket
- Marylebone Cricket Club founded in London (1787)
- Marylebone Cricket Club publishes first official Laws of Cricket (1788)
- John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset organises an international tour of English cricketers to France, but it is abandoned due to the French Revolution (1789)
Horse-racing
- First Epsom Derby won by Diomed (1780)