1780s
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Art and culture
Technology
- 1783 First manned hot air balloon invented in France.
- 1783 First manned gas balloon invented in France.
Visual culture
- Witches' Sabbath (1789) - Goya
- The Nightmare - (1781) Henry Fuseli
Literature
- Key writers: Immanuel Kant and Marquis de Sade
Fiction
- Vathek (1786)
- Le Diable au corps (1786) - André de Nerciat
Non-fiction
Births
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Stendhal
- Thomas De Quincey
- Byron
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Deaths
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