The ascent of the gas-balloon by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard in the Palace garden at Noordeinde Palace in The Hague (the Netherlands), on July 12, 1785. The balloon landed in the village Zevenhuizen. The balloon is being inflated within a demarcation around which a crowd gathered. Ascension of the first manned balloon in the Netherlands.
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1785<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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