Swimming has been known from prehistoric times, the first registries of the date to swim of return to Stone paintings Age of about 7,000 years ago. Writing date of reference of year 2000 BC. Some of the first references include Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, 27:42 Facts, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the book first of swimming, the swimmer or a dialogue on the art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer oder ein Zwiegespräch über die Schwimmkunst). Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800, in its majority using fathom. In 1873 Trudgen John Arthur it presented/displayed the Trudgen to the competitions of swimming of the West, after copying the frontal part of tracking used by the native Americans. Due to a British negligence of splashes, Trudgen used a kick of scissors instead of kicking the tracking front fluttering. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games (1896 in Athens). In 1902 Richard Cavill it presented/displayed crol to the western world. In 1908, the world-wide association of swimming, Federation the International of Swimming (FINE), was formed. Butterfly was developed in the decade of 1930 and was at a first moment a fathom variant, until it was accepted like a separated style in 1952.