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1836Europe • FranceThe Arc de Triomphe is unveiled at the Place d'Étoile in Paris
1841Central AmericaFrederick Catherwood (1799–1854) and John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) publish Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
1848North America • USA 
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Unidentified photographer
Straw-hatted gold miner 
1850 (ca)
Start of the Gold Rush with the vast movements of migrants leading to the establishment of California in 1850.
1851Europe • Great BritainThe Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations at Hyde Park in London promoted by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. Louis Jules Duboscq exhibits a Brewster stereograph viewer and it attracts the attention of Queen Victoria.
1852North America • USAUncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) is published.
1853North America • USANew York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
1854Asia • Japan 
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Eliphalet Brown
Eliphalet M. Brown Jr. shooting Daguerreotypes in Okinawa 
1856
Japan is opened to outside influences through the actions of Commodore Matthew Perry and his naval expeditions.
1854North America • USAHenry David Thoreau (1817–1862) publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods.

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