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.