The modern game of badminton was first codified under that name in England.
The sport takes its name from Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the country home of the Duke of Beaufort. A racket-and-shuttle game was played there in the 1870s, helping popularize the name “badminton” for the version that developed in Britain. The Bath Badminton Club later helped establish early rules in the 1870s.
The game’s deeper ancestors include battledore-and-shuttlecock activities and an Indian game called poona, which British military officers encountered in India. Badminton therefore has a mixed history: important early forms existed in Asia, but the standardized modern sport was organized and codified in England.
The Badminton Association of England was founded in 1893, and the first All England Open Badminton Championships were held in 1899. Indonesia, China, Malaysia and India later became major badminton powers, but their sporting success does not change where the modern rules were formalized.