History of Badminton

Today I will tell you how badminton started and where badminton originated. Badminton was invented long time ago, it is a sport played in ancient Greece and Egypt. Badminton came from a child's game called battledore and shuttlecock, in which two players hit a shuttlecock back and forth using a badminton rackets. Badminton was called "Poona" in India during the 18th Century, and British Army Officers stationed there took the Indian version back to England in the 1860's The army men introduced the game to their friends, but the new sport was definitely launched there at a party given in 1873 by the Duke of Beaufort at his country place, "Badminton" in Gloucestershire. During that time the game had no name, but it was referred to as "The Game of Badminton", because of that Badminton became it's official name. 

Badminton is very popular in England. In fact the players of a small army of badminton players formed a group and called it Bath Badminton Club, and they standardized the rules and made the game applicable to English ideas and the basic regulations in 1887. In 1895 the Badminton Association was formed to take over the authority of the Bath Badminton Club and the new group made rules which now govern the game throughout the world.