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AVIATION

June 5 - The Montgolfier Brothers send up at Annonay, near Lyon , an 900 m linen bag inflated with hot air. Its flight covered 2 km and lasted 10 minutes, to an estimated altitude of 1600 - 2000 m

November 21 - the first free flight by humans in a balloon is made by Pilâtre De Rozier and Marquis D'Arlandes who flew aloft for 25 minutes about 100 metres above Paris for a distance of nine kilometres

CHEMISTRY

Discovery of Tungsten - José and Fausto Elhuyar find an Acid in Wolframite which they reduce with Charcoal to isolate tungsten

AWARDS

; Thomas Hutchins

BIRTHS

DEATHS

September - Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707 ).

October 29 - Jean Le Rond D'Alembert , mathematician and physicist (born 1717 ).