Significant Games-related Events in The 19th Century
- The Milton Bradley Company is founded in Springfield, Massachusetts (1860).
- E.G. Selchow & Co. founded (1867), later changing its name to Selchow and Righter (1880).
- Parker Brothers founded by George S. Parker (1883).
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