The Dublin and Kingstown Railway officially opened.
The Portage Railroad Line in Pennsylvania built the first railroad tunnel in the US.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
The first train passenger service began.
The US celebrated the opening of the country's first railroad station in Baltimore.
Locomotion No. 1 became the first passenger-carrying steam-powered locomotive and was driven by George and Stephenson.
A steamboat patent was granted to the American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton.
The Clermont steamboat by Robert Fulton made its maiden trip up the Hudson River.
The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales.
Jean Pierre Blanchard flew the first hot air balloon in the US.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
Hot air balloon crosses the English Channel.
French aviator Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly an untethered hot air balloon.
French chemistry and physics teacher Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made his first successful balloon flight.
Aviation pioneers, the Montgolfier brothers, made the first human ascent in a hot air balloon.
Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers released the first-ever unmanned hydrogen balloon.
The English transport ship Duke William sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tried to fly his famous Flying Machine invention for the first time.
