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1 1800s
- 1803
- July 18, Etienne Gaspar Robertson and Lhoest climb from Hamburg (Germany) up to 7,280 m.
- October 3- 4, Frenchman André-Jaques Garnerin covered a distance of 395 km from Paris to Clausen with his Montgolfière.
- 1804
- Sir George Cayley builds a model glider with moveable control surfaces.
- August/September, experiments by physicists Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean Baptiste Biot disproved the theory that the earth's pull decreases with height.
- J. Kaiserer suggested making a Montgolfière manoeuverable with the help of tame eagles.
- 1807
- Jakob Degen, a watchmaker from Vienna, experimented with an apparatus with valve-flap, flapping wings
- 1808
- Degen tried to combine a Montgolfiere with the flapping wings.
- 1809Events January 16 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna. February 3 Illinois Territory was created. February 11 Robert Fulton patents the steamboat. February 20 A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States states t
- Degen propels a hydrogen-filled balloon by flapping large ornithopter-style wings.
- September, Sir George Cayley published his seminal paper On Aerial Navigation , setting out for the first time the scientific principles of heavier-than-air flight.
2 1810s
- 1811Events February 5 George, Prince of Wales becomes Regent because of the perceived insanity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom. He is known as the Prince Regent. This is the beginning of the period known as the English Regency. March 1 Eg
- May 31May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years). There are 214 days remaining. Events 1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, destined to mine fool's gold at Frobisher Bay, which is used to pave streets in Lo, Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger, the "tailor of UlmUlm is a city in Germany, part of the Bundesland of Baden-Wurttemberg (about 100 km south-east of Stuttgart). Its population is slightly above 115,000. Ulm was also the birthplace of one of the 20th century's most famous persons Albert Einstein. History U" (Germany) crashes in his apparatus, a copy of Degen's, into the Danube. It was presumably a workable hang glider.
- 1812Events January 1 the Allgemeines Burgerliches Gesetzbuch, the Austrian civil code enters into force in the Austrian Empire February 2 Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California February 7 The strongest in a series of massive earthqua
- July 19July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. Events 700-1899 711 Moslem forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. 1333 Battle of Halidon Hill: the final b, lamp gas usedto fill a Montgolfière (Green).
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