January 2019

The FA Cup is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after the Football Association. Its current sponsored name is the FA Cup with Budweiser.

The Mille Miglia originated when a group of Italy's most famous racing drivers formed the Brescia Automobile Club in 1927 and organised a long-distance race for production cars, which they felt would assert the importance of Brescia as the cradle of Italy's automobile industry

The event is launched with mass in the Duomo Vecchio, Brescia. On the next day the Gran Turismo cars are exhibited to the general public in the city centre, and the first leg of the race - from Brescia to Ferrara - is launched at 7.30pm.

The RHS has now celebrated Chelsea's centenary with a superb line-up of show gardens to give you great ideas to try at home.

Highlights to the Chelsea Flower Show include the avant-garde show gardens designed by leading names with Floral Marquee at the centrepiece. The Show also features smaller gardens such as the Artisan and Urban Gardens.

The Monaco Grand Prix is held each year on the Circuit de Monaco. Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The circuit has been called "an exceptional location of glamour and prestige

The Uefa Champions League is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football. The final of the 2011 tournament was the most-watched UEFA Champions League final to date, as well as the most watched annual sporting event worldwide that year, drawing 178.7 million television viewers.

The Canadian Grand Prix draws crowds of up to 300,000 people, and is one of the sport's best-attended events.

The annual US Open Golf Tournament, the second of four major golf championships is staged at a variety of courses across the country.

This year both the men's and women's championships are scheduled to be played at the No 2 course of the Pinehurst Resort, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

The British Grand Prix is held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. The British and Italian Grands Prix are the oldest continuously staged Formula One World Championship Grands Prix. It was designated the European Grand Prix five times between 1950 and 1977, when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one Grand Prix race in Europe.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is far more than the evocative name of one of the world’s major cultural events. Since its beginnings in 1967, the Festival has developed its palette of activities considerably. Today the Festival is involved in an array of endeavors, including a Foundation encouraging the next generation of musicians, the Montreux Jazz Cafés, and Montreux Sounds, the largest audiovisual concert archives in the world.

The festival of San Fermín in the city of Pamplona is a deeply rooted celebration held annually for a week in July.

It starts at midday on the 6th of July, when the opening of the party is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo (rocket), and ends at midnight on the 14th of July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí. While its most famous event is the the running of the bulls (encierro), which happens at 8:00 am from the 7th to the 14th of July, the week long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events.