Chronology of events in the history of photography in the Czech lands till 1918.

The first series of landscape pictures in Czech lands

On the 26th of September 1853, Hermann Krone from Dresden created historically first photographs of the Pravčická Gate, Pravčice Cone and the Jeleni Hollow. The next day he made the first picture of Hřensko. His pioneering exploit Krone later called "the first photographical landscape excursion to Saxon-Boheminan Schwitzerland".

- H. Krone: Pravčická Gate, 26. 9. 1853. (Original photography ist in the Museum in Pirna)