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

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Events of the year

1896

• First news of “X-rays” published in Czech daily papers
• First experiments with X-rays in the Czech lands
• The X-ray Domalípa's picture of his hand was published
• The first public lecture about the Roentgen's discovery
• Václav Zenger`s lecture “About photographing the invisible”
• Ivan Puluj`s demonstration of x-ray photographs
• A scientific report about Roentgen's experiments
• "A skiagram of a guinea-pig"
• Experiments with x-ray photography absorbed many photographer
• Jindřich Eckert made a set of x-ray
• František Krátký photographed in Russia
• František Dvořák became an editor of the Photographical Review
• "Souvenirs of Czech-Slavonic Ethnographic Exhibition"
• First exhibition of the Club of amateur photographers in Pilsen
• Micro photographs of yeast in ultraviolet radiation
• "Distribution and advances of photography"
• Flying through the Czech world
• First recorded manufacture for making Czech photographical plates