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When did billiards originate?
In the earliest billiards game, there were only two balls on the table. Spread to France, the French joined a red ball, and the British joined in. /kloc-at the end of 0/7, Louis XIV's doctor in France asked the king to play billiards after dinner every day. Subsequently, billiards became popular in France. At first billiards were made of wood, and then ivory appeared. Some people say that billiards originated in France, some people say that it first came from Britain, and some people say that it first came from Spain and Italy.

Billiards started with the first two balls and gradually evolved into English billiards, French billiards and so on. The popular English snooker billiards originated from 1885 and has a history of 100 years.

Billiards has a history of five or six hundred years. Which country did billiards originate from? Some say it's ancient Greece, some say it's French, some say it's Britain, some say it's China, Italian and Spanish, etc., but they are all based on legends, so it's difficult to determine. However, it is an indisputable fact that billiards originated in western Europe.