1839 | Europe - France![]() Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, 1822 (or later), Vue de Chateau d'Eau prise du Boulevard St. Martin, Lithograph, Private collection of Carlos Gabriel Vertanessian, | The diorama in Paris of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre is destroyed by fire at the same time as he is showing his photographic discoveries to Samuel F.B. Morse. |