Historedia
Person

François Laurent d'Arlandes

Events
1
Episodes
2
Years
1783

Every event in Historedia whose sources name François Laurent d'Arlandes, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Robert Brothers' Long-Distance Balloon Flight

    1783

    Role: Passenger on the first free manned flight

    1. around October 1783 · Reveillon workshop yard, Faubourg Saint-AntoineFirst tethered manned balloon flight

      Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first balloon flight with humans aboard, a tethered ascent from the Reveillon workshop yard, on or around 15 October 1783.

    2. 21 November 1783 · ParisFirst free flight with human passengers

      On 21 November 1783 Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes performed the first free flight with human passengers, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.

Sources

  1. Hot air balloon Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-26