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The 2010 Commonwealth Games are the nineteenth Commonwealth Games, and the ninth to be held under that name. The Games are scheduled to be held in Delhi, India between 3 October and 14 October 2010. The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. It will also be the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India and the second time the event has been held in Asia (after 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

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1891 - Founded by Astley cooper as a Festival. Initially a sporting contest amongst the countries of British origin aimed at combining sporting, military and literary events that would draw closer the ties and increase the goodwill and understanding of the Empire.

1911 - Termed as Festival of Empire. The games and coronation of His Majesty King George the Fifth was coincided. The games included field athletics, boxing, wrestling and swimming events. Initially a Silver cup 2’ 6” high weighing 340oz was presented to the winning country Canada.

1928 - Amsterdam No further development took place until 1928, when the Olympic Games were in progress in Amsterdam. The splendid feelings of friendliness between the Empire athletes at that Olympiad re-vitalized the idea for the revival of Empire meetings.

1930 - British Empire Games - Hamilton, Canada Eleven nations sent 400 athletes to participate in six sports: athletics, boxing, lawn bowls, rowing, swimming and diving and wrestling.

1934 - British Empire Games - London, England Sixteen nations sent 500 competitors to participate in six sports. India made its debut in London. A highlight of the 1934 Games was the inclusion of events for women in athletics.

1938 - British Empire Games - Sydney, Australia Fifteen nations participated involving a total of 464 athletes and 43 officials. Seven sports were featured with inclusion of cycling for the first time.

1950 - British Empire Games - Auckland, New Zealand After twelve years, British Empire Games returned in 1950. Twelve countries sent 590 athletes to participate in nine sports.

1954 - British Empire & Commonwealth Games - Vancouver, Canada Some 24 countries sent a total of 662 athletes and 127 officials to the Games. There were nine sports on the programme. The event was televised live across the world for the first time.

1958 - British Empire & Commonwealth Games - Cardiff, Wales Thirty-five nations sent a total of 1,122 athletes and 228 officials to the Cardiff Games. Nine sports were featured in these Games.

1962 - British Empire & Commonwealth Games - Perth, Australia The VII Commonwealth Games are remembered for its “heat, dust and glory”, because of extremes hot condition persisted throughout the Games’ duration. Thirty-five countries sent a total of 863 athletes and 178 officials to Perth. Nine sports were featured at the Perth Games

1966 - British Empire & Commonwealth Games - Kingston, Jamaica Thirty-four nations competed in the Kingston Games sending a total of 1,316 athletes and officials. There were nine sports on the programme.

1970 - British Commonwealth Games - Edinburgh, Scotland The IX Games 1970 in Edinburgh was remembered for introducing metric distances system for the first time at the Games. Forty-two nations sent a total of nearly 1,744 athletes and officials to compete in nine sports.

1974 - British Commonwealth Games - Christchurch, New Zealand Nine sports were featured in these Games with 1,276 athletes from thirty-eight countries.

1978 - Commonwealth Games - Edmonton, Canada Forty-six countries sent a total of 1,474 athletes and 504 officials to the Games. Ten sports were featured at the Edmonton Games including the newly added gymnastics.

1982 - Commonwealth Games - Brisbane, Australia Forty-six nations participated in the Brisbane Games with 1,583 athletes and 571 officials. Ten sports featured at the Brisbane Games.

1986 - Commonwealth Games - Edinburgh, Scotland This game was known as “the Boycott Games” because 32 Commonwealth nations decided that they could not attend, because of their opposition to apartheid in sports. Twenty-six nations did attend the Games and sent a total of 1,662 athletes and 461 officials to participate in ten sports.

1990 - Commonwealth Games - Auckland, New Zealand Fifty-five nations participated in the Games sending 2,826 athletes and officials to participate in ten sports.

1994 - Commonwealth Games - Victoria, Canada Sixty-three nations sent 2,557 athletes and 914 officials as the Commonwealth Games. Ten sports were featured at the Games.

1998 - Commonwealth Games - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia For the first time the Commonwealth Games were held in Asia. It was also the first Game to feature team sports. Seventy countries sent a total of 5,065 athletes and officials to the Kuala Lumpur Games to participate in 15 sports.

2002 - Commonwealth Games - Manchester, England It was the largest in the history of the Commonwealth Games in terms of participating nations with 72 countries taking part across 14 individual and 3 team sports consisting 3,679 athletes. For the first time in the Games history, a limited number of full medal events for elite athletes with a disability (EAD) were included.

2006 - Commonwealth Games - Melbourne, Australia For the first time in the history of the Games, the Queen's Baton visited every single Commonwealth nation and territory taking part in the Games, a journey of 180,000 km. The sports on the programme were Aquatics (diving, swimming & synchronised swimming), Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Bowls, Boxing, Cycling, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rugby 7s, Shooting, Squash, Table Tennis, Triathlon and Weightlifting. There were approximately 5,766 athletes and team officials in attendance in Melbourne across 71 nations.