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THEDIVINGBELL BULL RUNNING FIRST PARACHUTE JUMP

Guglielmo de Lorena The Spanish town of Pamplona moves the On 22 October,
and Francesco de SanFerminfiestatoJuly.ThefamousBullRun Frenchman André-
Marchi use the first ROMAN BARGES takes place, where townspeople run with the Jacques Garnerin
diving bell to explore 2 submerged in Lake Nemi
raging bulls through the streets to the bullring. jumps from a
They make several dives, each lasting hydrogen balloon
UP TO 2 HOURS at 975 metres
using a prototype
Garnerin’smost
spectacularjump parachute. Two
The two explorers are able to descend to between wasfrom2,400 years later, his wife
5 AND 12 METRES metresin1802. becomes the first
female parachutist.

1535 1591 1797

THE FIRST HUMAN CANNONBALL LION-TAMING PIONEERING AERONAUT

The first person to be shot from a cannon is EXTRAORDINAIRE Italian aeronaut
JUST 14 YEARS OLD American Isaac Van Amburgh is the Vincenzo Lunardi
entertains
first man to place his head in
a lion’s mouth, astounding thousands of
Brits with
‘Zazel’ (real name Rosa Marie Richter) FrenchmanHenri audiences by acting Bible ‘majestic
FLIES 30 METRES persontotrainabigcat scenes alongside big cats. grandeur’ in
Martinwasthefirst
afterenteringatiger’s
his elaborate
in front of a crowd at the Royal Aquarium cagein1819. balloon. His
most intrepid
Before her untimely death, Zazel reportedly stuntisa
EARNS £200 A WEEK journey over 58
kilometres of
water in Scotland.
performing to crowds of 20,000 in England and the USA
1877 1828 1785

THE ‘WINGSUIT’ SKYDIVE FROM SPACE
NO OXYGEN Frenchman In October 2012, Austrian Felix

Mountaineer Reinhold Patrick De Baumgartner jumps from a balloon at
Gayardon
Messner completes pushes the the edge
hissolosummitof boundaries of 39,045 METRES: of space
Mount Everest BASE jumping
without the use by perfecting He was in free fall for
of supplemental ‘the wingsuit’;
oxygen,afeat fabric between 4MINUTES AND 20 SECONDS
that was the legs and
previously arms increases He opened his parachute at
deemed to surface area Baumgartner
be scientifically like a parachute. 2,516 METRES becamethefirst
and performs
humantobreak
impossible. thesoundbarrier
withoutmechanical
propulsion.
1980 1994 2012 © Alamy, Getty Images

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