First circus to perform under a canvas big top
- Who
- Joshua Purdy Brown
- What
- First
- Where
- United States
- When
- 1825
The first circus to travel with a canvas big top and to perform one-day stands was that of Joshua Purdy Brown (d. 1834) and Lewis Bailey in the USA in 1825.
Their first series of single-day engagements did not take place until May 1826.