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