| 1842 | Europe • France
| Excursions Daguérriennes, by Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours is published; it is the first travel book illustrated with engravings from original daguerreotypes. |
| 1842 | 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] |
| 1842 | 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) |
| 1843 | Europe • Scotland
| The partnership of Hill & Adamson (David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson) forms in Scotland. They jointly produce outstanding portraits until the premature death of Adamson in 1848.
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| 1843 | North America • Mexico
| John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was one of the great explorers of the Mesoamerican archaeological sites of Yucatan in Mexico. For the discoveries he described in his book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) Dr. Cabot took daguerreotypes. |
| 1844 | North America • USA
| Mathew Brady (1823–1896) establishes a photographic studio in Washington.
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| 1844 | Europe • Great Britain
| Henry Fox Talbot publishes the first part of The Pencil of Nature which is one of the first books containing photographs. It comes out in an instalment of six parts between 1844 and 1846 and contains 24 photographs in total.
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| 1844 | Asia • China
| Jules Itier (1802-1877) with the French customs service on a commercial mission to China takes what may be the earliest photographs of Macao [Macau] and wrote:
"I spent the last two days capturing the most interesting features of Macau on daguerreotype; the people on the streets respond with greatest kindness to all my demands, and many Chinese allowed photographs to be taken of them, but I had to show them the inside of the apparatus and the object reflected on the polished glass."
As the head of the French trade commission in China he takes a Daguerreotype of the signing of the Sino-French peace treaty. (24 October 1844) |
| 1845 | Europe • Great Britain
| Henry Fox Talbot publishes Sun Pictures in Scotland that includes locations associated with the novelist Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). [Read about] |
| 1845 | North America • USA
| Langenheim & Langenheim , the two brothers William and Frederick, take a panorama of Niagara Falls using five separate Daguerreotypes. (July 1845) |
| 1845 | Europe • France
| Armand Hippolyte Fizeau (1819-1896) working with Léon Foucault (1819-1868) takes the first photograph of the sun. |
| 1847 | Europe • Great Britain | The Calotype Club is founded in London. |
| 1847 | North America • USA | The African-American photographers Glenalvin and Wallace Goodridge establish their daguerreotype studio in York, Pennsylvania.
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| 1847 | North America • USA
| Thomas Easterly makes what may be the first ever photograph of a streak of lightning on a daguerreotype plate. (18 June 1847) |
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