Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
William Pitt the Younger became the youngest British Prime Minister ever at age 24.
French chemistry and physics teacher Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made his first successful balloon flight.
John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged on London's Tyburn Gallows.
Mozart's Symphony No.36 premiered in Linz, Austria.
Aviation pioneers, the Montgolfier brothers, made the first human ascent in a hot air balloon.
US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary war.
Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
A great ball of fire was witnessed over the east coast of Great Britain.
Mount Asama erupted in Japan, killing around 1,400 people.
A violent eight-month volcano eruption in Iceland started.
