Leonardo da Vinci is credited with conceiving the idea of a parachute.
Da Vinci originally sketched the design for the parachute in 1483.
But it was not until 1797, that Frenchman, Andre Jacques Garnerin made the first skydiving jump with a parachute from an aircraft.
In 1897, the first limp parachute jump was made.
In 1919, the first ever international free-fall parachute jump was made.
Skydiving soon took off as a sport.
The first World Skydiving Championships were held in Yugoslavia, in 1951.
On June 26, 2000, more then 500 years after da Vinci sketched the design for the parachute, British man, Adrian Nicholas, dropped from a hot air balloon 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) above the ground to succesfully test the parachute that Da Vinci had designed.
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