| BC |
Romans play Paganica where they walked across fields and hit a small leather ball with a curved stick and aimed to strike certain trees. The winner was the person who hit all the trees in the fewest possible strokes. This sport developed in two ways. In country areas where there was adequate space, courses were laid out and the target became a hole. Thus the game of golf evolved. In towns where space was limited, the game of Paille-Maille (ball-mallet) became popular. In this game, a box-wood ball, a foot in circumference, was played down an alley, passing through a number of arches or hoops on the way. The winner was the person achieving this in the fewest hits. |
| 1300's |
 Peasants in Languedoc (southern France) played a game where they hit balls with shepherd crooks through bent willow branches.
The game of le Jeu de la Crosse (or la Crosserie) was immensely popular in Normandy, especially at Avranches, but the object appears to have been to send the ball as far as possible by driving it with the mallet. [1911 Enclyclopedia Britanica] |
| 1351 |
Royal pardons in France describe nobles playing Ground Billards. |
| 1450 |
Tapestry shows people playing Paille-Maille. |
| 1500's |
Dutch manuscripts mention Klos (also Closh, Cloish, Claish and later Clash). |
| 1568 |
Cal. Scot. Papers - [Mary was playing at Seton] "richt oppinlie at the feildis with the palmall and goif". |
| 1600's |
Louis XIV played Jeu de Mail at Versailles, France.
Charles II of England and his courtiers played Pall Mall at St. James's Park in London. |
| 1601 |
Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary, "'To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York playing at Pelemele, the first time that I over saw the sport". |
| 1604 |
James VI of Scotland became James I of England and brought Paille-Maille equipment as well as golf clubs to his new court. |
| 1717 |
Lauthier printed rules of Pall Mall. |
| 1830 |
French doctor developed a new version of the sport as a form of outdoor exercise for his patients. He named it Croquet, from the French word for a crooked stick, and it was widely played at spas in the South of France. [This is probably a myth because medical treatment at spas in Europe did not come into fashion until well after the middle of the 19th century.] |
| 1831 |
Walter Jones Whitmore born in March at Chastleton House in Moreton-in-Marsh, England, United Kingdom. [Guy Stapleton, of Moreton Historical Society, in When Cotswolds Became the Birthplace of Croquet] |
| 1851 |
 John Jaques II, famous toy and game manufacturer, introduces croquet at the Great Exhibition in England. His display there attracted such wide attention that the game speedily became the vogue, not only there but in Europe and throughout the British Empire. [Prichard, in his history of croquet, says he read through the catalogue of the great exhibition and found no mention of croquet.] |
| 1852 |
Crookey, a game played in Ireland from the 1830's, was brought to England where it quickly became popular.
Paille-Maille was brought to Ireland from the south of France, and was first played on Lord Lonsdale's lawn, under the auspices of the eldest daughter of Sir Edmund Macnaghten. [1911 Enclyclopedia Britanica] |
| 1853 |
Croquet first played in Hawaii at Punahou School in Honolulu. |
| 1856 |
Isaac Spratt, a fashionable London toy maker and retailer, signed application for registration of the title Rules of the New Game of Croquet at Stationers' Hall, dated 15 November 1856, but recording the date of first publication as 2 August 1853, may be seen to this day in the UK Public Record Office. |
| 1858 |
A set of rules for the Oatlands Croquet Club, Ireland, were set out by 'Corncrake' in The Field of 21 August 1858. The first three grounds referred to in the columns of The Field - namely Oatlands, Philpotstown, and Dormstown - were closely clustered within a few miles of Navan, the county town. And all three properties were extensive private estates, not towns or villages. Meetings between the clubs which played at those venues were reported in The Field.
John Jaques published Rules and Directions for Playing Croquêt — a New Outdoor Game in England. |
| 1859 |
First record of a croquet court in the USA at Nahant, MA. |
| 1860 |
Sir MacPherson Robertson, namesake of the Mac Robertson Shield, born on September 6th in Ballarat, Australia.
Sir Walter Peel, namesake of the peel, started playing croquet. |
| 1861 |
Athletic Sports and Recreations for Boys: Comprising Cricket, Croquet by Rev John George Wood was published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge in London, England. |
| 1862 |
Ye Game of Croquet published by Cremer in England |
| 1863 |
Captain Thomas Mayne Reid wrote Croquet: A Treatise and Commentary, in which he argued that croquet was a character building alternative to actual warfare.
The sixth Earl of Essex wrote The Rules of Croquet Revised and Corrected by an Old Hand. This work was produced to support sales of his Cassiobury Set of croquet equipment, was promptly snuffed out by the vice-chancellor in response to an action for breach of copyright brought by Captain Mayne Reid.
Thompson wrote The Rules of the Game of Croquet. |
| 1864 |
John Jaques bought the rights to the rules of croquet from Isaac Spratt, and printed 25,000 copies of Croquêt: Its Laws and Regulations. Mysteriously, the first edition of this work is described as "thoroughly revised".
 Croquet by Captain Mayne Reid was published by James Redpath, Boston, Massechusets, USA.
The Park Place Croquet Club of Brooklyn organizes
with 25 members. "Croquet is probably the first game played by both men and women in America."*
Peterson's Magazine described the game of Troco, or Lawn Billiards.
Walter Miller wrote Laws of Croquet.
The Laws of Croquet as Played by the Medes and Persians by ‘Rab-Mag’ was published by Hatchard in London, England.
Routledge’s Handbook of Croquet by Edmund Routledge was published by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge in London, England.
The Rules of the Game of Croquet, as Played at Sheriff Hutton Park by Leonard Thompson was publish by Cordeaux & Ernest in York, England.
The title Croquet Polka was registered at Stationer's Hall on May 14th by London music publishers Addison & Lucas.
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| 1865 |
John Jaques published 50,000 more copies of Croquet: Its Laws and Regulations.
R. Fellow of Boston, MA, USA, wrote The Game of Croquet, Its Appointments and Laws.
The Game of Croquet, Its Laws and Regulations published by Dean & Son in London, England, UK.
Laws and Regulations of the Game of Croquet by James Soutter & Son published by James Soutter & Son in Edinburgh, Scotland.
How to Play Croquêt by S. Kramer published by Adams & Co in Boston, USA.
The Newport [Rhode Island] Croquet Club handbook Croquet as Played by the Newport Croquet Club said, "Whist exercises the memory and the power of calculating probabilities; chess the imagination and the faculty of abstract reasoning; but croquet, though it taxes these mental capacities less, combines them with the delights of out-of-doors exercise and social enjoyment, fresh air and friendship -- two things which are of all other most effective for promoting happiness."
Hand-Book of Croquet published by Milton Bradley & Company in USA.
Walter Jones Whitmore's rules of croquet published in The Field. [Guy Stapleton, of Moreton Historical Society, in When Cotswolds Became the Birthplace of Croquet]
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| 1866 |
Winslow Homer paints The Croquet Game. |
| 1867 |
The Grand National Croquet Club held the first open croquet championship at Evesham (at what is now the Evesham Hotel) on a 45x60-foot court with 8-inch wickets. It was won by the club's founder Walter James Whitmore (actually W. T. Whitmore-Jones, or Walter Jones Whitmore, 1831-1872).
The Oxford University Croquet Club was formed.
Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll, published the rules for Castle Croquet: For Four Players in August in Aunt Judy's Magazine.
French dictionary for the first time defines croquet as a game.
Both men and women in the Christiania Boldlag (Oslo Ballteam) started playing croquet at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway. [Tore Gulbrandsen]
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| 1868 |
 The All England Croquet Club (AECC) was formed by the merger of the Grand National Croquet Club and two other rival clubs. It later changed its name to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
Walter James Whitmore (actually W. T. Whitmore-Jones, 1831-1872) wrote Croquet Tactics.
First All-Comers Meeting was held at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, England. [1911 Enclyclopedia Britanica] Walter Jones Whitmore held the Grand Open Tournament on Moreton cricket ground. The croquet courts were about 45 yards by 35 yards with 8-inch hoops. 16 gentlemen played heats, quarter- and semi-finals before the final. Whitmore lost in the quarter-final to the ultimate winner Walter Peel. [Guy Stapleton, of Moreton Historical Society, in When Cotswolds Became the Birthplace of Croquet] |
| 1869 |
 Walter James Whitmore (actually W. T. Whitmore-Jones, 1831-1872) was barred from the AECC, and formed the National Croquet Club.
The first women's croquet championship were held in England, and won by a Mrs. Joad.*
Chambers Book of Days published a picture of King Charles II attempting to knock the ball through the hoop. He was apparently very good at the game. |
| 1870 |
 Alfred Concanen illustrated the sheet music for Croquet Schottisch by Lawreen and Davis, and arranged for piano by C. H. R. Marriott.
Wimbledon held croquet championships, seven years before lawn tennis was played there. The All England Croquet Club setting of ten wickets and two pegs was used.
The General Conference of Croquet Clubs drew up the laws of croquet.
Tight Croquet, in which a player puts their foot on their ball when croqueting another ball, was outlawed. [Dr. Ian Plummer in Oxford Croquet.] |
| 1871 |
The National Croquet Club held an extravagant tournament in which 17,000 troops paraded around the courts; spectators were packed five deep; and there was a full-dress ball.
The handbook in the Milton Bradley croquet set said, "When we [Americans] work or fight, we work and fight harder than any other people. We should be as enthusiastic in our play." |
| 1872 |
The Hale Setting of six wickets and two pegs was introduced.
Arithmetical Croquet invented by Lewis Carroll. |
| 1875 |
Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the All England Croquet Club to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court.
The Convention of Croquet Players met in April in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and compiled a rulebook entitled Croquet, the copyright of which was vested in the secretary, I. Bedwin. |
| 1876 |
Issac Spratt, author of the first croquet rule book, dies. |
| 1877 |
The All England Croquet Club changed its name to the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. |
| 1878 |
President Rutherford B. Hayse spent $6 of American taxpayer money on a set of fancy boxwood croquet balls. "Croquetgate"?
The Oxford University Croquet Club holds its first tournament.
The Convention of Croquet Players met in August in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, USA, and "amended and accepted" The Revised Rules for the Game of Croquet.
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| 1879 |
The National [American] Croquet Association (NCA) was founded. It later became known as the National Roque Association.
The National Croquet Congress met in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on September 23rd-24th, and adopted Spalding’s Official Croquet Manual (including the American Rules of Loose Croquet, and the Spalding National Rules of Tight Croquet), "the only book of rules on croquet ever published under national authority". |
| 1880 |
Sir Walter Peel publishes How to Play Croquet.
Rules and Regulations for Playing Field Croquet by "professional players" was published. |
| 1882 |
The NCA held its first national tournament.
The NCA held a convention of 25 clubs on October 4th at the New York Croquet Club, and adopted a standard set of rules for the nine-wicket game.
South Bend Toy Works, OH, USA, begins manufacturing toy croquet sets. |
| 1884 |
The Oxford University Croquet Club changed its name to The Oxford University Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club. |
| 1887 |
The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club decided that croquet was so unpopular that it ordered the placards inscribed with the names of the club's croquet champions taken down and thrown in the Thames, but the groundskeeper hid them instead. |
| 1890 |
Boston bans croquet for moral reasons because young couples might disappear into shrubbery together to look for balls. |
| 1891 |
McLoughlin Brothers copyrighted the rules for Tiddledy Wink Croquet, and E. I. Horsman came out with Lo Lo the New Parlor Croquet Game where "colored disks represent the [croquet] balls and the ‘mallet disks’ are used to snap them into positions or through the arches". The Horsman set is copyrighted by L. E. Lawrence. |
| 1894 |
 Frederick Douglass builds a croquet court at his Anacosta, Virginia, USA, home named Cedar Hill, overlooking the capital of the United States. An article in The Washington Post on 18 September 2005 entitled Restoration Will Let Visitors See How Frederick Douglass Lived said, "As if completing the image of the proper Victorian-era gentleman that Douglass sought to project, a croquet court spread across his expansive lawn just outside his library window, near the grape arbor and the peach trees.
The former slave loved croquet. If there's some dissonance in that fact, well, that's Douglass." |
| 1896 |
The United All England Croquet Association (UAECC) was formed by Sir Walter Peel, and AECC champion in the 1870s, because the AECC had switched from croquet to tennis. [1911 Enclyclopedia Britanica]
Cassell's Book of Illustrated Sports quoted, "both sexes could join on terms of equality, ... Old and young could take part with equal chances."
The Complete Croquet Player published in London, England, UK.
The Gold Medals competition was instituted by the nascent Croquet
Association, and played for the first three years at the All
England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon. [Chris Williams] |
| 1897 |
Arthur Lillie wrote Croquet: Its History, Rules, and Secrets.
Sir Walter Peel, name sake of the peel, died in December.
C. E. Willis is Champion of England.
The Present Position of the Game of Croquet by Leonard Williams published by Badminton magazine. |
| 1898 |
The UAECC adopted the first Laws of the Game.
The Peel Memorials, separate handicaps [events] for men and women, were instituted in [Sir Walter] Peel's honour. Jaques offered a 50 guinea cup, but it was thought more fitting that the memorial trophies should be subscribed by associates. Two large silver bowls were bought and have been played for ever since. [The History of Croquet by David Prichard] |
| 1899 |
A new set of rules was standardized for the American version, which was given a new name: roque, formed by clipping the first and last letters from croquet. It was played on a court of hard-packed dirt, with hard rubber balls, very narrow wickets, and short mallets. The court was enclosed by a wooden barricade to keep the lively balls on the field of play.
The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club changes its name to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, but rehangs the placards of croquet champions taken down in 1887.
Lily Gower, the "Championess" of England, wins her first of three English national women's championships after only playing for one year.
First annual Charnwood Forest tournament held at Charnwood Forest Archery and Lawn Tennis Society in Swithland, Leicestershire, England. |
| 1900 |
The UAECC changed its name to the Croquet Association (CA).
 Olymic Games in Paris, France, as part of the Exposition Universelle
Internationale -- the Paris World's Fair -- includes croquet at Cercle du Bois de Boulongne; all players were Frenchmen.
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Singles |
Doubles |
| One Ball |
Two Ball |
| Gold |
Aumoitte (21-15) |
Waydelich |
Johin & Aumoitte |
| Silver |
Johin |
Vignerot |
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| Bronze |
Waydelich |
Sautereau |
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The first 19 women to compete in the modern Olympics
Games play in just three sports: tennis, golf, and croquet.* The first to compete were Mme. Brohy and Mlle. Ohnier of
France in croquet.
Arthur Lillie publishes Croquet up to Date containing an article entitled Cowardly Tactics by Aunt Emma. |
| 1901 |
Lily Gower wins the English gold metal, beating England's best male players.
Cyril Corbally of Ireland first swings the mallet between his legs, rather than a golf swing.
John Jaques publishes the Laws of Croquet for the Croquet Association. |
| 1902 |
Engraving of a match between C.E. Willis and a Mrs. Thornton entitled The Croquet Association Challenge Cup Competition at Sheen House Club, Richmond. |
| 1904 |
Olympic Games in St. Louis, America, includes American nine-wicket roque; American Charles Jacobus took the gold medal; other players were Americas Smith Streeter, Charles Brown, and William Chalfant.
The Championship of Oxford Open Singles Challenge Cup was first played.
The first issue of the Croquet Association Gazette appears on Wednesday, April 27th, edited by C. D. Locock. |
| 1906 |
A Baulk Line introduced into the game. |
| 1907 |
C. D. Locock publishes Modern Croquet Tactics. |
| 1908 |
Croquet Association holds its first tournament. |
| 1909 |
A Gold Challenge Casket was added to the Gold Medals (of 1896) by the Croquet Association. [Chris Williams] |
| 1910 |
B Baulk Line introduced into the game. |
| 1911 |
11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica contained article on croquet. |
| 1913 |
Alternate A (the ability to play either ball) introduced into the game.
 H. F. Crower Smith wrote A Croquet Alphabet.
The Relation of Billiards to Croquet published in the September issue of the Billiard Monthly. |
| 1914 |
Lord Tollemache, croquet's premier instructor, publishes Croquet with an inspired picture-and-text approach. |
| 1916 |
American Roque League was formed. |
| 1922 |
The Willis Setting of six wickets and one peg devised by C. E. Willis was adopted by the CA, and became International Rules or Association Rules croquet.
Either-ball law added to Laws of Association Croquet. [David Maugham]
Herbert Bayard Swope returns from being a reporter for the New York World in England, where he saw croquet, and starts playing at his home in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA. His version of croquet had nine wickets, four balls, strict sequence, and carry-over deadness. |
| 1924 |
Rev. G.F.H. Elvey proposed lifts, but didn't specify which hoops. [Prichard] |
| 1925 |
Herbert Bayard Swope moves to Sands Point, Long Island, New York, USA.
The Algonquin Round Table of Herbert Bayard Swope, Alexander Woolcott, George S. Kaufman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Heywood Braun, Jack Barrymore, and Dorothy Parker popularize nine-wicket croquet on the East cost of America. |
| 1926 |
Test Matches started between England, Australia, and New Zealand.
The term "peel" recognized in the Laws of Association Croquet. It was named after Sir Walter Peel (died 1897). |
| 1927 |
MacRobertson Shield held in Australia and New Zealand. Gazette published English team's itinerary. [David Maugham is "reasonably confident that the Willis setting and lifts were both used in
the first Macrobertson Shield".] |
| 1928 |
Lift at #4-back (but not #1-back) introduced into the game, and called Variation B. [Prichard] |
| 1929 |
Arthur Ross, father of the triple peel, published Croquet and How to Play It. |
| 1935 |
The National Recreation Association approved and adopted Official Croquet: Rules of Play, published by the Croquet Association of Kentucky. |
| 1936 |
The Gold Medals competition (started in 1896) was merged with the
Men's and Women's Championships by the Croquet Association. [Chris Williams] |
| 1939 |
Gold medals (started in 1896) and gold challenge casket (started in 1909) awarded for the last time in the
Men's and Women's Championships by the Croquet Association. [Chris Williams] |
| 1940's |
Holywood stars Harpo Marx, Louis Jordan, Darryl Zanuck, Tyrone Power, George Sanders, Gig Young, Prince Romanoff, and Samuel Goldwyn popularized nine-wicket croquet on the West coast of America. Bets of $10,000 were made. The level of play was high: at the start of a game, Louis Jourdan would light a cigarette, take a deep puff, and place it on the stake; then he would do an all-round run in time to pickup his cigarette for one last puff.
Roehampton experiments during the 2nd World War led to the Wichelo variation,
namely lifts at 1-back and 4-back and the contact. [Prichard] |
| 1945 |
Sir MacPhearson Robertson, namesake of the Mac Robertson Shield, died August 20th at 85 years of age. |
| 1946 |
East-West Croquet Match held on July 6-7 at Howard Hawks home in Hog Canyon, Plam Springs, California, USA.
Advanced Rules added to Laws of Association Croquet. |
| 1947 |
Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition was delayed by a game of croquet in the garden of Captain Gulbrandsen in New York. [Tore Gulbrandsen] |
| 1949 |
Lord Tollemache wrote Modern Croquet Tips & Practice, and it was published by Strange The Printer Ltd, York Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK. [Croquet History and the Clip Game] |
| 1951 |
 The Official Handbook of the Laws of Association Croquet and Golf Croquet, and the Regulations for Official Tournaments published by the Croquet Association. 48 6-1/2"x4" pages, |
| 1953 |
 The Official Handbook of the Laws of Association Croquet and Golf Croquet, and the Regulations for Official Tournaments published by the Croquet Association. 48 6-1/2"x4" pages, |
| 1957 |
Green Gables Croquet Club formed in Spring Lake, New Jersey by Suzie Oakes (now Linden); now the oldest continuous club in the USA.
The Championship of Oxford Open Singles Challenge Cup was last played because the cup then "went missing".
Laws of Association Croquet published by the Croquet Association. |
| 1960 |
Tom McDonnell starts playing nine-wicket croquet in Coldwater Canyon Park, Beverly Hills, California, USA, after Samuel Goldwyn's croquet court was lost.
Tackle Croquet This Way by E. P. C. Cotter published by Stanley Paul, London, England, UK. 124 pages. |
| 1961 |
Varsity Match first held at Hurlingham by Oxford University and Cambridge University. |
| 1966 |
Westhampton Mallet Club visits Hurlingham Croquet Club in England, and is summarily and severely thumped in open competition. |
| 1967 |
Queen Elizabeth of England celebrates the centenary of croquet. |
| 1969 |
The New York Croquet Club and Palm Beach Croquet Club play the first six-wicket tournament at the Colony Hotel in Florida. The finals were delayed to watch the New York Jets with Joe Namath upset the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl, but the New York Croquet Club lost the next day. |
| 1970 |
John Prince becames the first player to complete a sextuple peel in
competition on March 30th in Hastings, New Zealand. [1990 Townsend's Croquet Almanack] |
| 1971 |
Keith Wylie (1945-1999) becomes the first player to complete a delayed sextuple (where
the first peel, through 1-back, is not completed until after the first
hoop has been scored by the striker's ball). This he did in the second
game of the final in the 1971 Open Singles Championship at Hurlingham
against Nigel Aspinall. [1990 Townsend's Croquet Almanack] |
| 1974 |
Jeløy Croquet Club (JCC) and Croquet-selskabet (The Croquet Society), introduced Association Croquet into Norway on June 8th. [Tore Gulbrandsen] |
| 1975 |
The Tribune, Norway's croquet periodical, first published. [Tore Gulbrandsen] |
| 1976 |
New Oxford University Croquet Club formed. |
| 1977 |
Jack Osborn organized six Eastern clubs (including the Westhampton Mallet Club, Croquet Club of Bermuda, Green Gables Croquet Club, New York Croquet Club, and Palm Beach Croquet Club) into the United States Croquet Association (USCA), and wrote a new rule book for an American version of the six-wicket sport called American Rules croquet. |
| 1978 |
Sue Foden of Oxford University is the first woman to play in the Varsity Match at Hurlingham. |
| 1981 |
 The History of Croquet by D. M. C. Prichard published by Cassell of London with ISBN 0304307599.
Rudolph "Foxy" Carter holds New England Regional Tournament at Newport Croquet Club.
Nigel Aspinal, John Solomon, Bernard Neal, and William Omerod come from England to Palm Beach, Florida, USA, to play American Rules Croquet against Jack Osborn, Archie Peck, Teddy Prentis, and Ned Prentis. The British spent much of their time sticking the American's balls in hoops. This was before the wiring-lift rule was in effect in the US, and the rule change was put into effect shortly after. |
| 1984 |
 The fourth edition of the Basic Laws of Croquet published by the Croquet Association. It included the basic laws of both Interntaional Croquet and Golf Croquet. 16 6"x4" pages. |
| 1985 |
Keith Wylie writes Expert Croquet Tactics.
John Prince becames the first player to score two sextuples in one day,
on the November 8th during the President's First Eight at Gisborne,
New Zealand. [1990 Townsend's Croquet Almanack] |
| 1986 |
First Croquet Classic held by the CA for "garden players"; handicapped players are not allowed to play.
World Croquet Federation (WCF) was formed as an "international governing body".
American Croquet Association (ACA) was formed by Stan Patmor of Arizona to "promote International Rules croquet in America".
Hans Peterson publishes Croquet Magazine co-edited by Bob Alman and Mike Orgill.
First Sonoma World Championship held at the Sonoma-Cutrer Winery, Winsor, California, USA by Brice Cutrer Jones. It has since become the site of the World Croquet Championships. |
| 1989 |
First World Croquet Championship held in London, and recognized by the WCF. 80 players competed from England (46), Scotland (8), New Zealand (6), USA (5), Ireland (5), Australia (4), Wales (4), Canada (1), and Japan (1). The eight from Scotland were Keith Aiton, David Appleton, Ian Bond,
Andrew Hope, Martin Murray, Duncan Reeve, Rod Williams and
Stephen Wright.
Croquet was a "demonstration sport" at the World Games in Karlsruhe. |
| 1991 |
Queen of Games: The History of Croquet by Nicky Smith published. |
| 1993 |
European Croquet Federation (FEC) was formed.
World Croquet Championship held at the Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, and sponsored by Jaguar Cars.
The United States first competes in the MacRobertson Shield. |
| 1997 |
 The Croquet Association Centenary Year Book 1897-1997 together with A Concise History of the Croquet Association by Colin Prichard published by the Croquet Association. It included winners of principal events and officers of the Association. 146 8-1/4"x6" pages. |
| 1998 |
First sextuple peel performed by an American in a sanctioned tournament: Jacques Fournier in the United States Open at Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
Cheating, Gender Roles, and the Nineteenth-Century Croquet Craze by Jon Sterngass published in the Journal of Sport History by the North American Society of Sports History.
Maui Croquet Club (MCC) formed in Kihei, Hawaii, USA. |
| 1999 |
Jacques Fournier become the first American, and at 17 perhaps the youngest person, to win the World Croquet Championship. |
| 2000 |
The United States places third in the MacRobertson Shield held in Christchurch, New Zealand.
San Francisco Open discontinued after 15 years.
Maui Croquet Club (MCC) joins the USCA. |
| 2001 |
The Lodge at Koele hosts first tournament with the Maui Croquet Club. |
| 2004 |
Croquet Fever held it's first International Rules tournament at The Lodge at Koele.
Jeløy Croquet Club (JCC) and Brevik Croquet Team (BCT) form the Norges Croquet Forbund (Croquet Association of Norway) in July. [Tore Gulbrandsen] |
| 2005 |
Croquet: A Bibliography -- Specialist Books and Pamphlets Complete to 2002 by David H Drazin published by Oak Knoll Press in USA, and Roefield Press in England.
Reg Bamford sets the world four-game peeling record runing two consecutive sextuple peels followed by two consecutive octuple peels in his last four games at The Resort at the Mountain Invitational. These were also the first octuple peels every completed in American tournament play.
Jeløy Grand Tournament played in May; the first international croquet tournament in Norway. [Tore Gulbrandsen] |
| 2007 |
 First Norway Open and Nordic Open held at Holmsbu Golf Course, Hurum, Norway, in August. [Tore Gulbrandsen] |
