- Who
- Jean Francois Gravelet aka Charles Blondin
- What
- 1859/6/30 first
- Where
- United States (Niagara)
- When
The greatest 19th century tightrope walker, Jean Francois Gravelet, alias Charles Blondin (1824 -1897), of France, made the earliest crossing of the Niagara Falls on a 76mm 3in rope 335m 1,100ft long and 47.75m 160ft above the Falls on 30 June 1859. <br />