West Bromwich Albion is an English football club from West Bromwich in the West Midlands, started by workers at George Salter's spring works as West Bromwich Strollers and renamed a few years later. It was a founding member of the Football League in 1888, and has played at its present ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. The club won the FA Cup five times, most recently in 1968, and the league championship in 1920, and the team of the 1950s, with Ronnie Allen, was among the best in England. Albion has often moved between the Premier League and the lower divisions in recent decades. Its nickname is the Baggies, and the club's rivals include Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Before and after
- 1878Publication of Hatikvah
- 1878Discovery of holmium
- 1878Discovery of ytterbium
- 1878Founding of Manchester United F.C.
- 1878Founding of West Bromwich Albion F.C.
- from 1878 to 1880Second Anglo-Afghan War
- 1878Founding of Everton F.C.
- 3 March 1878Treaty of San Stefano
- 10 May 1878Birth of Gustav Stresemann
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- c. 1800sRise of nationalism
- 17 February 1863Founding of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- 1885Founding of Stanford University
- 1 November 1897Founding of Juventus FC
- 1 January 1901Founding of Australia
- 21 May 1904Founding of FIFA
The era
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