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    Vincenzo Lunardi (11 January 1754 in Lucca – 1 August 1806 in Lisbon) was a pioneering Italian aeronaut, born in Lucca. Vincenzo Lunardi's family were...
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  • 1939), Italian politician Vincenzo Lunardi (1754–1806), Italian balloonist Lunardini This page lists people with the surname Lunardi. If an internal link intending...
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  • club's sovereign in 1820. Amongst honorary members was the balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi. The club was dissolved in 1836; some of its papers and relics were...
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    landing at 3.30pm on 15 September 1784, of the Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi. The actual spot where the first hydrogen filled balloon flight over...
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  • spymasters. Gilbert McMicking CMG Scottish Liberal Party politician. Vincenzo Lunardi, honorary member General Sir Richard O'Connor, KT, GCB, DSO, MC, ADC...
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  • homepage on 25 Moorgate City of London Corporation homepage on Guildhall Vincenzo Lunardi Hydrogen balloon model. Site with information about the balloon attempt...
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    to fly, making her ascent on 29 June 1785, in a balloon launched by Vincenzo Lunardi (an Italian aeronaut) from St George's Fields in London. She is thought...
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    (1542–1611), composer Leo I (died 1079), saint Pope Lucius III (1097–1185) Vincenzo Lunardi (1754–1806), aeronautical pioneer aeronaut Ludovico Marracci (1612–1700)...
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    Frederick Gould and Giles Gilbert Scott and completed in 1930. In 1784, Vincenzo Lunardi achieved the first successful attempt at hot air balloon flight from...
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    ascend in a balloon, almost a month before his rival to the title, Vincenzo Lunardi, made a hydrogen balloon ascent in London. Tytler's venture was expensive...
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    Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet John Hope James Hutton Thomas Jefferson Vincenzo Lunardi Sam McDonald William Nairne, Lord Dunsinane George Paton William Robertson...
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    first flight in Britain (and the first outside France), when Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew from Moorfields to Ware on 15 September 1784. Blanchard's propulsion...
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  • commemorates the accidental landing of the Italian diplomat and balloonist, Vincenzo Lunardi, on 5 December 1785. Directly across from Scotmid and next to the church...
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  • Britain, in a hot air balloon from Edinburgh. September 15, Italian Vincenzo Lunardi makes the first hydrogen balloon flight in Britain, from Moorfields...
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    acclaim. The painting depicted the ascent of a balloon, designed by Vincenzo Lunardi, from St George's Fields in London. In 1789, Ibbetson visited the Viscount...
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    hundredth anniversary of the battle, in 1914. The Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi landed in the parish after his first flight in Scotland in 1785. Fetched...
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    On 23 November 1785, huge crowds of Glaswegians gathered to watch Vincenzo Lunardi take off from the churchyard in a hot air balloon on a flight which...
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  • lock which he then begins to manufacture. 15 September: The Italian Vincenzo Lunardi makes the first hydrogen balloon flight in Britain, from Moorfields...
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    Vincenzo Lunardi's balloon exhibited at the Pantheon....
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    prepares to take office as the new Governor of Pennsylvania. October 5 – Vincenzo Lunardi of Italy becomes the first person to pilot a balloon over Scotland...
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  • number of early prints by Thomas Rowlandson, including a depiction of Vincenzo Lunardi carrying his balloon. He published several prints simultaneously with...
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    prepares to take office as the new Governor of Pennsylvania. October 5 – Vincenzo Lunardi of Italy becomes the first person to pilot a balloon over Scotland...
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  • Kanof Ruggero Lenci Leonardo da Vinci Domingo Liotta Cesare Lombroso Vincenzo Lunardi Giovanni Luppis Amatino Manucci Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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    play. The HAC Cricket Club was founded in 1860. On 15 September 1784 Vincenzo Lunardi, flew a balloon from the Artillery Ground, the first such flight in...
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    Green End is most notable for being at the final landing point of Vincenzo Lunardi's historic first hot air balloon flight in 1784. There is a boulder...
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    appointed Naples' ambassador to London in 1780, taking the future aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi there as his secretary. Whilst in London, Caramanico was made a Fellow...
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  • the Hebrides is published. 5 October – flight by Florentine aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi in a gas balloon from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, across the...
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    assembly room on his journey to Falkland in July 1650, and the aeronaut, Vincenzo Lunardi, was carried there in triumph after crossing the Firth of Forth in...
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    robberies almost nightly committed in or near the town." The next year Vincenzo Lunardi's first balloon flight over Britain landed in Standon Green End where...
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    ascent in Britain took place and the aeronaut was another Italian, Vincenzo Lunardi. Andreani was now a recognized aeronaut but he also became known as...
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