View from the Window at Le Gras

Period

1826

Map

Inventions map

View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce between June 4 and July 18, 1827, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, as seen from a high window. The image was created by heliography, a process which Niépce had invented around 1822, and which uses the hardening of bitumen in light to record an image after washing off the remaining unhardened material.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. 1789–1799French Revolution
2. 1803–1815Napoleonic Wars
3. 1815Battle of Waterloo
4. 1826View from the Window at Le GrasThis page
5. 1830July Revolution
6. 1830–1831Belgian Revolution
7. 1848French Revolution of 1848

Who ruled this land

States that held this place in the historical borders data (Cliopatria). Years are approximate, as fine as the data's snapshots (every few years to a century). Tap to open the map for that year.

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