1872 – Born in Cambrai, on the 1st of July.
– He performed the first flight over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft.
– Louis Blériot studied engineering at the École Centrale Paris.
1900 – He built an ornithopter, a type of early aircraft designed to use wing-flapping to achieve flight.
1903-1906 – Blériot and collaborator Gabriel Voisin formed the Blériot-Voisin Company.
1909 – On 25th of July, he made 1st airplane crossing of English Channel.
1936 – Died on the 2nd of August.