Juggling - its history and greatest performers by Francisco Alvarez

Chronology

Approximate year of peak performance


Sidonius Apollinaris -------------------- ( ? )
Septimus Spika -------------------------- ( ? )
Pierre Gringoire ------------------------ 1530
Francesco Pergani ----------------------- 1701
Johann Karl van Eckenberg --------------- 1740
Mathieu Dupuis -------------------------- 1770
John Bill Ricketts ---------------------- 1793
Franke ---------------------------------- 1822
Medua and Mooty Samme ------------------- 1823
Lau Laura ------------------------------- 1832
Carl Rappo ------------------------------ 1832
Signor Vivalla -------------------------- 1836
Karl Johann Schäffer -------------------- 1845
Francois Rappo -------------------------- 1848
James E. Darmody ------------------------ 1865
Severus Schäffer ------------------------ 1865
Paul Cinquevalli ------------------------ 1898

EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

William Everhart - Harrigan - Kara - Salerno - Pierre Amoros - Rapoli - Paul Conchas - Paul Spadoni - Pat McBann - Frank LeDent - W. C. Fields - Selma Braatz - Morris Cronin - Jean Bedini

Enrico Rastelli -------------------------- 1930

MID-AND-LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Piletto / Howard Nichols / James Evans / Ivanoff / Silla / Trixie / Serge Flash / Bobby May / Bob Ripa / Rudy Horn / Alexander Kiss / Felix Adanos / Stan Kavanaugh / Dieter Tasso / Boy Foy / Gaston Palmer / Woodrow / Massimiliano Truzzi / Béla Kremo / Kris Kremo / Francis Brunn / Lottie Brunn / Sergei Ignatov / Steve Mills / Rudy Cardenas / Dick Franco / Evgenij Biljauer / Edoardo Raspini / Barrett Felker / Anthony Gatto.

This chronology has been compiled by combining names from our present era with those mentioned by the following historians :

Dr. Henry R. Evans, Max Koch, Hermann Sagemüller, and Marcello Truzzi.

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