Interactive Timeline

By willhavnaer

  • Thomas Wedgwood thinks to invent photography

  • Niépce produces first photograph with Camera Obscura

  • Andrew Jackson sings Indian Removal Act into law

  • Henry Fox Talbot creates first Calotype

  • Louis-Jacques-Mande invents daguerreotype

  • Henry Harrison wins the 1840 presidential election

  • Anna Atkins produces the first photographic print book

  • Henry Fox Talbot creates the first photographic book titled “The Pencil of Nature”

  • The Great Flood of 1844 hits the Missouri River and Mississippi River

  • Winfield Scott photographs the first war (Mexican American)

  • The discovery of gold is the beginning of the California Gold Rush

  • Frederick Scott Archer invented the wet-collodion process

  • Roger Fenton photographs the Crimean War

  • Lewis Carrol photographs Victorian England children and uses photographs artistically

  • Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state

  • Uncensored photos of the dead are photographed during the battle of Melegnano

  • Abe Lincoln becomes President

  • During the Civil War many photographers use the stereographic camera

  • James Wallace captures first aerial photographs (of Boston)

  • Silver Gelatin Process invented by José Martinez-Sanchez and Jean Laurent

  • The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 is passed

  • Telephone is invented

  • The light bulb is invented

  • The U.S. Congress passes the Immigration Act

  • George Eastman invents the first Kodak camera, using film instead of glass plates

  • Kodak introduces the “Brownie Camera” which is made for children use