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1845Asia - India
 
Anglo Sikh War 
1846North America
 

 
Unidentified photographer, 1846 (ca), Exeter, N.H. [Exeter, New Hampshire, volunteers leaving for the Mexican War], [Mexican-American War], Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, Amon Carter Museum, LL/38724
Mexican War - it ends with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). The surviving daguerreotypes are among the earliest taken of a war. 
1848Asia - India
 
Anglo Sikh War 
1848Europe
 

 
Charles-François Thibault, 1848, 26 June, The Barricade in rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt after the attack by General Lamoricière's troops, Daguerreotype, Source requested, LL/6255
Known as the Year of Revolutions in Europe with the Chartist uprising in London and the establishment of the Second Republic in France with bloody riots. 
1848Global
 
Communist Manifesto published 
1854Asia
 

 
Roger Fenton, 1855, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Salt print, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/7333
Crimean War 
1856Asia - China
 

 
Felice Beato, 1860, Sir James Hope Grant, Albumen print, National Galleries of Scotland, LL/6823
Second Chinese Opium War 
1857Asia - India
 

 
Felice Beato, 1858 (ca), The Residency, Taken in Front, and Showing the Room in Which Sir Henry Lawrence was Killed, Lucknow., Albumen silver print, Brown University Library, Special Collections, LL/6833
The Indian Mutiny 
1858North America - Mexico
 
Civil War starts in Mexico and Benito Juárez (1806-1872) is elected president. 
1859Europe
 
The Austro-Sardinian War is fought between the French under Napoleon III and the Kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel II on the one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the other. The campaigns and battles (Montebello 20 May, Palestro 30 May, Magenta 4 June and Solferino 21 June) are photographed by Luigi Sacchi and Béraldy amongst others. 

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