| 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. |
| 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] |
| 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) |
| 1849 | Middle East
| Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894) sets out on an official mission to photograph the sites and monuments of Egypt, Palestine and Syria. |
| 1849 | Europe • Great Britain
| Sir David Brewster develops the lenticular stereoscope. |
| 1850 | Europe • France | Louis Jules Duboscq in Paris manufactures the first functioning stereoscopic viewer. |
| 1850 | North America • USA | Mathew Brady publishes his collection A Gallery of Illustrious Americans. |
| 1850 | North America • USA
| The first issue of The Daguerreian Journal: devoted to the Daguerreian and Photogenic Arts is published in New York. It is the world's first photographic journal. (November 1850) |
| 1850 | Europe • France | Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard perfects a process for making positive prints coated with albumen. This is one of the most popular types of photographic prints through the nineteenth century. |
| 1850 | Europe • Great Britain
| Henry Mayhew publishes London Labor and London Poor with wood engravings based on Daguerreotypes that were taken under the supervision of Richard Beard (1802-1885). |
| 1851 | Europe • France | Missions Héliographiques established in France with Édouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq and Auguste Mestral recording the architectural patrimony of France. |
| 1851 | Europe • Great Britain
| Frederick Scott Archer publishes his invention of the wet collodion process in a copy of The Chemist. Although a more complex process than Daguerreotype it has finer detail and a faster exposure time. It was the basis for the ambrotype and the tintype that became popular later in the decade. (March 1851) |
| 1851 | Europe • France | Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (1802-1872) opens a photographic print making firm in Lille. The Maxime Du Camp work Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie that starts to appear in instalments from September 1851 onwards is the first book it produces the plates for. |
| 1851 | Europe • France | The Societé Héliographique is founded in Paris. Headed by Baron Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros (1793-1870) the society includes Gustave Le Gray, Henri-Victor Regnault, Henri Le Secq and the painter Delacroix. (January 1851) |
| 1851 | Europe • France
| The photographs of Eugène Piot are used for the first French book illustrated with photographs - Italie Monumentale. (May 1851) |
| 1851 | Europe • Great Britain
| Queen Victoria is presented with a deluxe stereoscope by David Brewster beginning the craze in stereographs. |
| 1853 | Europe • France
| Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) opens a photographic studio in Paris that rapidly becomes the leading portrait studio for the cultured elite of Parisian society. |
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