1861 - First permanent color photograph of the physicist James Maxwell Clerk.
1907 - Lumière brothers introduced the first CD on the market for color photography, Autochrome. They were produced from dyead potato starch.
1935 - First sale of contemporary tri-color film, Kodachrome (most of today's color films, except Kodachrome, uses the technology developed for the Agfacolor film in 1936).
1963 - Instant color Polaroid.