Timeline of aviation in the 19th century

This is a list of aviation-related events during the 19th century (1 January 1801 – 31 December 1900):

An 1818 technical illustration shows early balloon designs.
A late 19th-century illustration of Gay-Lussac and Biot ascending to 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in a hot-air balloon in 1804.
Harris jumps from his balloon to save his fiancée. Illustration from the late 19th Century.
Francisque Arban is rescued by Italian fishermen, 1846. Illustration from the late 19th century.
Experimental helicopter by Enrico Forlanini (1877) ( Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci , Milan)
The 1884 Krebs & Renard first fully controllable free-flights with the LA FRANCE electric dirigible near Paris (Krebs arch.)
The astronomer Jules Janssen took this photo of La France dirigible of the French officers Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs from his Meudon astrophysic observatory in 1885.
Patent drawing of Ader's Eole
Otto Lilienthal in flight, ca. 1895