March 29: Two men – Brown and Dean – make the first balloon flight in Australia in a hydrogen balloon named the Australasian.

April 23: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

September 2: Samuel King introduces the 1st dragline in America. It is a long rope attached to the basket, which helps to stabilize altitude by dragging on the ground when the balloon is flying very low.