Europe • France
| Excursions Daguérriennes, by Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours is published; it is the first travel book illustrated with engravings from original daguerreotypes. |
Europe • Germany
| The devastation of the Hamburg Fire is captured on daguerreotype plates by Hermann Biow and it is probably the first news event ever photographed. (5 May 1842) [Read about] |
Europe • Great Britain
| Richard Beard opens his public portrait studio for Daguerreotypes on the roof of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London. (23 March 1842) |
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