launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon from the Champ-de-Mars on 27 August 1783. This place witnessed the spectacle and pageantry of some of the...

in 1783. She became an East Indiaman but was wrecked in 1787 at the end of her first voyage for the British East India Company. The fifth HMS Mars (1794)...

launched the world's first hydrogen filled balloon on 27 August 1783, from the Champ de Mars, (now the site of the Eiffel Tower) where Ben Franklin was among...

American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other...

from 1780 to 1783, as Mars, she was first a privateer and then a slave ship, engaged in the triangular trade in enslaved persons. Between 1783 and 1787 her...

Lysippus: thus the Roman god of war receives his Greek name, Ares. Ares/Mars is portrayed as young and beardless and seated on a trophy of arms, while...

Phobos – Mars: Transit of Phobos from Mars | Solar eclipses on Mars Sun – Deimos – Mars: Transit of Deimos from Mars | Solar eclipses on Mars Other types:...

3 mars 1855, page 265. The Canada Gazette, 3 mars 1855, page 263 ; The Canada Gazette, 10 mars 1855, pages 293–294 ; The Canada Gazette, 17 mars 1855...

Treaty of Paris was signed between Great Britain and the United States in 1783, which made the expedition unnecessary; Lafayette took part in those negotiations...

Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, Bengal on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted. In April 1783 he married Anna Maria Shipley, the eldest daughter...