Jean-Pierre Blanchard
1753 to 1809
4 documented presences
4 places
Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Jean-Pierre Blanchard across 4 places, from 1784. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
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Where Jean-Pierre Blanchard was documented, and when
16 October 1784exact date
Franceattested
“Blanchard moved to London in August 1784, where he took part in a flight on 16 October 1784 with John Sheldon, just a few weeks after the first flight in Britain (and first outside France), when Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew from Moorfie…”
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16 October 1784exact date
Moorfieldsattested
“Blanchard moved to London in August 1784, where he took part in a flight on 16 October 1784 with John Sheldon, just a few weeks after the first flight in Britain (and first outside France), when Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew from Moorfie…”
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16 October 1784exact date
Ware, Hertfordshireattested
“Blanchard moved to London in August 1784, where he took part in a flight on 16 October 1784 with John Sheldon, just a few weeks after the first flight in Britain (and first outside France), when Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew from Moorfie…”
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16 October 1784exact date
Londonattested
“Blanchard moved to London in August 1784, where he took part in a flight on 16 October 1784 with John Sheldon, just a few weeks after the first flight in Britain (and first outside France), when Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew from Moorfie…”
source: Wikipedia: Jean-Pierre Blanchard
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Places Jean-Pierre Blanchard is documented in
France1 presence · 1784London1 presence · 1784
Moorfields1 presence · 1784
Ware, Hertfordshire1 presence · 1784
Other places tied to Jean-Pierre Blanchard in the record
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1783 to 1785period
Francementioned
“Following the invention of the modern parachute in 1783 by Sébastien Lenormand in France, in 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means of jumping safely from a balloon.”
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21 November 1783exact date
Palace of Versaillesmentioned
“The first successful manned balloon flight took place on 21 November 1783, when Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes took off at the Palace of Versailles in a free-flying hot air balloon constructed by the Montgolfier brothers.”
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1 December 1783exact date
Parismentioned
“The first manned hydrogen balloon flight took place on 1 December 1783, when Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert launched the first gas balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.”
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1 December 1783exact date
Tuileries Palacementioned
“The first manned hydrogen balloon flight took place on 1 December 1783, when Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert launched the first gas balloon from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.”
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2 March 1784exact date
Parismentioned
“Blanchard made his first successful balloon flight in Paris on 2 March 1784, in a hydrogen gas balloon launched from the Champ de Mars.”
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2 March 1784exact date
Champ de Marsmentioned
“Blanchard made his first successful balloon flight in Paris on 2 March 1784, in a hydrogen gas balloon launched from the Champ de Mars.”
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30 November 1784exact date
Ingress, Kentmentioned
“Blanchard took a second flight on 30 November 1784, taking off with an American, John Jeffries, from the Rhedarium behind Green Street Mayfair, London to Ingress in Kent.”
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30 November 1784exact date
Kentmentioned
“Blanchard took a second flight on 30 November 1784, taking off with an American, John Jeffries, from the Rhedarium behind Green Street Mayfair, London to Ingress in Kent.”
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7 January 1785exact date
Francementioned
“A third flight, again with Jeffries, was the first flight over the English Channel, taking about 2½ hours to travel from England to France on 7 January 1785, flying from Dover Castle to Guînes.”
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7 January 1785exact date
Dover Castlementioned
“A third flight, again with Jeffries, was the first flight over the English Channel, taking about 2½ hours to travel from England to France on 7 January 1785, flying from Dover Castle to Guînes.”
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7 January 1785exact date
Guînesmentioned
“A third flight, again with Jeffries, was the first flight over the English Channel, taking about 2½ hours to travel from England to France on 7 January 1785, flying from Dover Castle to Guînes.”
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7 January 1785exact date
Englandmentioned
“A third flight, again with Jeffries, was the first flight over the English Channel, taking about 2½ hours to travel from England to France on 7 January 1785, flying from Dover Castle to Guînes.”
source: Wikipedia: Jean-Pierre Blanchard
September 1791month
Praguementioned
“Among the events that included demonstrations of his abilities as a balloonist was the coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in Prague in September 1791.”
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1797year
United Statesmentioned
“Blanchard left the United States in 1797.”
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20 February 1808exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Luigi CherubiniParis · 1784Samuel JohnsonLondon · 1784John Nash (architect)London · 1784Thomas JeffersonParis · 1784Marquis de SadeParis · 1784Laurent de Gouvion Saint-CyrParis · 1784
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