Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse; 7 March 1775 – 14 June 1847) was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the first to ascend solo and the...

ballooning activities Garnerin worked with his older brother Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Garnerin (1766–1849). His student Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, who later...

(This event was not witnessed by others.) On 12 October 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin ascended in a gondola attached to a balloon. At 900 meters she...

Bouvet de Maisonneuve, French admiral (d. 1860) Date unknown – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin, French balloonist and parachutist (d. 1847) January 1 – Ahmad...

Bouvet de Maisonneuve, French admiral (d. 1860) Date unknown – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin, French balloonist and parachutist (d. 1847) 1776 January 1 –...

Seychellois judoka Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse (1775–1847) French balloonist and parachutist. The wife of Andre-Jacques Garnerin, a hydrogen balloonist...

non-rigid or collapsible parachute on October 22, 1797, and his wife Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse who made a similar descent two years later. After this public...

1798, Garnerin's future wife Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was also taken up in his balloon. Subsequently, both his wife and his niece Élisa Garnerin became...

1797, Paris was also the site of the first parachute jump in history, by Garnerin. In the summer of 1789, Paris became the centre stage of the French Revolution...

The French Army's Company of Aeronauts is abolished. October 12, Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute...

John Law, dating from 1840 in its present form. It was the site of Élisa Garnerin's parachute jump from a balloon in 1817. There is also a park and garden...

balloon led directly to the invention of the parachute. André-Jacques Garnerin, who had flown in a Montgolfier balloon in 1790, wanted to find a vehicle...

October – First parachute jump with a frameless parachute made by André Garnerin from a Montgolfier balloon at an altitude of 700 meters over the Plaine...

Park in Paris. First woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse jumped from an altitude of 3,000 ft (900 m) on October 12...

treasure wreck) is sunk in the West Frisian Islands. October 12 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute...