Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nicéphore Niépce captured the earliest surviving photograph from nature in 1826. The image known as View from the Window at Le Gras required an exposure time of at least eight hours to record the scene.
The existence of Louis Daguerre's process was publicly announced on the 7th of January 1839. France agreed to pay Daguerre a pension in exchange for the right to present his invention to the world as the gift of France on the 19th of August 1839.
Thomas Sutton took the first permanent color photograph in 1861 using the three-color-separation principle. This method involved taking three separate black-and-white photographs through red, green, and blue filters to recreate a color image.
Kodak unveiled the DCS 100, the first commercially available digital single-lens reflex camera, in 1991. This event marked the birth of commercial digital photography and the transition from film to digital formats.
On the 7th of February 2007, Sotheby's London sold the 2001 photograph 99 Cent II Diptychon for $3,346,456. This sale made it the most expensive photograph at the time and demonstrated the value of photography as a form of artistic expression.
Francis Ronalds invented the first successful camera to make continuous recordings of meteorological and geomagnetic parameters in 1845. These cameras produced 12- or 24-hour photographic traces of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity.