same day, Charles reaches an altitude of about over Nesles-la-Vallée. December 26, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute descent by jumping from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in France using his rigid-framed model which he intends as a form of fire escape. 1784 February 25, The first ascent of a manned balloon in Italy takes place with a hot air balloon carrying Paolo Andreani and two of its builders, the Gerli brothers. March 2, Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes his first flight in a hydrogen balloon. March 13 The first public ascent of a manned balloon in Italy takes place with a hot air balloon at the Villa Sormani in Moncucco carrying Paolo Andreani and two locals. April 15, The first ascent of a manned balloon in the British Isles takes place with a hot air balloon at Navan in Ireland. June 4, Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman passenger in a hot-air balloon, at Lyon in France. August 25 & 27, Scottish apothecary James Tytler makes the first balloon ascents in Great Britain, in a hot air balloon from Edinburgh. September 15, Italian Vincenzo Lunardi makes the first hydrogen balloon flight in Britain, from Moorfields in London to South Mimms. September 19, Anne-Jean Robert, Nicolas-Louis Robert and Colin Hullin fly La Carolina, a hydrogen balloon, from Paris to Beuvry. October 4, Englishman James Sadler makes the first hot air balloon flight in England, from Oxford to Woodeaton. October 16, Jean-Pierre Blanchard fits a hand-powered propeller to a balloon flow from London, the first recorded means of propulsion carried aloft. Pilâtre de Rozier and the chemist Proust rise with a Montgolfière up to . Jean Baptiste Meusnier makes an oblong balloon to explore unknown areas, with an airscrew driven by muscle power. 1785 January 7, Jean-Pierre Blanchard makes the first flight across the English Channel. He uses a hydrogen balloon and carries John Jeffries as a passenger, flying from Dover, England, to Guînes, France. January 19, Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon from Ranelagh Gardens to Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. He goes on to makes several unsuccessful attempts to cross the Irish Sea in a hydrogen-filled balloon. May 10, A hot air balloon collides with a chimney in Tullamore in Ireland, setting light to around 100 houses in the town centre. June 15, Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Jules Romain become the first