Coffee training knowledge and Culture Coffee History

1000 In Bukhara there was a doctor, philosopher who was the first to document the medicinal effects of coffee.

1470-1500 Application of coffee spreads to Mecca and Madina.

1517 Coffee was brought into Constantinople after the conquest of Egypt.

1554 The first coffee shop opens in Constantinople.

1570-80 Religious institutions in Constantinople order all coffee shops to close.

1600 Muslim Baba Budan brings coffee to western India.

1616 Coffee was brought to Holland from Mocha.

1645 The first coffee shop opens in Venice, Italy.

1650 Oxford's first coffee shop opens.

1658 Dutch begin coffee cultivation in Ceylon.

1668 Coffee is introduced into North America.

1669 Turkish ambassador introduces coffee to France.

1670 Coffee was introduced into Germany.

1674 English women collectively oppose coffee.

1675 King Charles II orders the closure of all coffee shops in London, claiming that they gather reactionary elements.

1679 Germany's first coffee shop opens in Hamburg.

1689 The first coffee shop opens in Paris.

1696 The King's Arms, America's first coffee shop, opens in New York.

1706 Coffee trees planted in Java, Indonesia, are brought back to the Dutch Botanical Gardens.

In 1714, the Dutch cultivated saplings from Java into trees and sent them to Louis XIV, the then French emperor.

1720 Caffe Florian, still in business, opens in Florence, Italy.

1723 Gabriel de Clieu brings coffee seedlings from France to Matinique.

1727 Francisco de Mello Palheta brings coffee seedlings from France to Brazil.

1730 The English brought coffee to Jamaica.

1732 Musician Bach composed "The Coffee Cantata", which pushed the German coffee craze to a new high.

1777 Frederick the Great demeans coffee and popularizes beer as the national drink of Germany.

1809 Brazil exports coffee to the United States for the first time, landing at Salem Harbor, Massachusetts.

1869 Coffee leaf rust was first discovered in Ceylon, and within a decade it had nearly wiped out coffee trees in India, Ceylon, and much of Asia.

1873 John Arbuckle launches Ariosa, the first coffee powder brand in the United States.

1882 The New York Coffee Exchange opens.

1904 Fernando Illy invents the first modern Expresso coffee machine.

1906 Brazil reserves part of its coffee crop to raise international coffee prices, a move known internationally as Valorization of Coffee.

1910 German company Merck Co. introduces decaffeinated coffee (Dekafa) to the United States for the first time.

1911 The American coffee roasters form the National Coffee Association.

1928 South American "Colombia Coffee Federation" formed.

193-1944 Brazil destroys 78 million bags of coffee.

1938 Nestle technicians invent instant coffee for the first time in a Brazilian factory.

1939-1945 The U.S. Army brought instant coffee to the world.

1959 Juan Valdez's face becomes the trademark of Colombia.

In 1962, the United States became the world's largest consumer of alcohol annually, with three cups per person per day.

In 1962, the International Coffee Agreement was established, representing coffee producing countries worldwide.

1971 Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle.

1973 The first "Fair Trade Coffee" is shipped from Guatemala to Europe.

1975 Brazil due to snow, coffee production greatly reduced, prices rose sharply.

1985 The International Coffee Agreement breaks up and coffee prices fall sharply.

1990-1995 Specialty coffee becomes popular.

1995 Organic coffee becomes the main character of Specialty coffee.

Starbucks opened 2000 stores in 1998.