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Joseph made his first definitive experiments in November 1782
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The lifting force was so great that they lost control of their craft on its very first test flight on 14 December 1782.
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Created on December 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers.
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On 4 June 1783, they flew this craft as their first public demonstration
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the summer of 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers sent a sheep, a duck and a chicken on an eight-minute flight over France
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On 27 August 1783, their hydrogen balloon was launched from the Champ de Mars in Paris
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On 19 September 1783, the Aérostat Réveillon was flown with the first living beings in a basket attached to the balloon: a sheep called Montauciel. a duck and a rooster
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It is fitting that Étienne Montgolfier was the first human to lift off the earth, making at least one tethered flight from the yard of the Réveillon workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. It was most likely on October 15, 1783.
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On November 21, 1783, in Annonay, France, the first manned flight was performed by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes
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On 21 November 1783, the first free flight by humans was made by Pilâtre
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Manuscript of Montgolfier describing his invention, 1784
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A 1786 depiction of the Montgolfier brothers' historic balloon with engineering data
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1700–1793
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The first military use of a hot air balloon happened during the battle of Fleurus in Europe (1794)
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A model of the Montgolfier brothers' balloon at the London Science Museum.
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6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799
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26 August 1740 – 26 June 1810
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Technical illustration from 1818 showing balloon designs.
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The first modern hot air balloon to be made in the United Kingdom (UK) was the Bristol Belle during 1967
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On 13 August 1989, two hot air balloons collided at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, killing all 13 people on board.
