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William Shakespeare wrote his first play The Taming of the Shrew
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Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors
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The oldest surviving daily newspaper is the Wiener Zeitung of Austria. It was first printed
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Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.
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First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker.
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Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura
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Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
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First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
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First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.
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Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process
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Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately.
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First mass-marketed camera—the Brownie.
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First 35mm still camera developed.
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Eastman Kodak introduces high speed Tri-X film.
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EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.
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Matisse’s Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside-down for 2 months in the Museum of Modern Art, New YorkSee: Art and Lit fast facts
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Polaroid introduces one-step instant photography with the SX-70 camera.
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Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera.
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Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
