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Yeast is discovered as a new way to make beer ferment.
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Thomas Wedgwood thinks of the idea of taking a picture with a camera and creates silhouetts.
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Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer produce the first steam printing press in London
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Nicephore Niepce succeeds in making negative photographs of camera images on paper coated with silver chloride, but cannot adequately "fix" them to stop them from darkening all over when exposed to light for viewing.
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The Rosetta Stone was deciphered by Jean-François Champollion
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Nicéphore Niépce produces the first outdoors photograph "View from the Window" at Le Gras. The left is the original the right is colorized and enhanced.
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The first successful functioning sewing machine was invented by Barthelemy Thimonnier
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Henry Fox Talbot produces durable silver chloride camera negatives on paper and concieves the two-step negative-positive procedure used in most non-electronic photography up to the present.
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Sir Charles Wheatstone presents the stereoscope to the Royal College in London
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Louis Daguerre publicly introduces his daguerreotype process.
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Sarah Anne Bright creates a series of photograms, six of which are known to still exist. These are the earliest surviving photographic images created by a woman.
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Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype' introducing the negative-positive process.
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Rdgar Allan Poe publishes "The Raven and Other Poems"
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Francis Ronalds invents the first successful camera for continuous recording of the various in meteorological and geomagnetic parameters over time.
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Nathaniel Hawthorn publishes "The Scarlet Letter"
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Introduction of the collodin process by Frederick Scott Archer, used for making glass negatives, ambrotypes and tintypes.
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Julia Margret Cameron is given a camera and starts taking portraits.
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Oregon State University was founded
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Rome becomes the capital of the entire Italian Peninsula, for the first time since the Roman Empire.
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The gelatin emulsion is invented by Richard Maddox
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Greenwich becomes accepted internationally as the prime meridian, or 0° longitude
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The Kodak n°1 box camera, the first easy-to-use camera, is introduced with the slogan "You press the button, We do the rest".
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Auguste and Louis Lumiere invent the cinematographe.
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The Autochrome plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful color photography product.
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Kinemacolor, a two-color process known as the first commercial "natural color" system for movies, is introduced.
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Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back
