When was the daguerreotype developed?
Daguerreotype
The first daguerreotype in Australia was taken in 1841, but no longer survives. The oldest surviving Australian daguerreotype is a portrait of Dr. William Bland taken in 1845.[143]
In Jamaica Adolphe Duperly, a Frenchman, produced a booklet of Daguerreotypes, Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica, being a collection of views... taken on the spot with the Daguerreotype which probably appeared in 1844.[144]
In 1857, Ichiki Shirō created the first known Japanese photograph, a portrait of his daimyō Shimazu Nariakira.[145] The photograph was designated an Important Cultural Property by the government of Japan.[146]