Coffee History Coffee Culture Story

Events of the year AD

In 1000 there was a doctor in Bukhara, and the philosopher was the first to record the therapeutic effects of coffee.

The application of 1470-1500 coffee spread to Mecca and Masterna.

1517 brought coffee to Constantinople after conquering Egypt.

The first coffee shop in Costantinople opened in 1554.

1570-80 religious institutions in Costantinople ordered all coffee shops to close.

1600 Muslim Baba Budan brings coffee to western India.

1616 coffee is brought to the Netherlands from Mocha.

The first coffee shop in Venice, Italy, opened in 1645.

The first coffee shop in Oxford, England opened in 1650.

1658 Dutch began to grow coffee in Ceylon.

1668 coffee was brought to North America.

1669 the Turkish ambassador introduced coffee to France.

1670 coffee was brought to Germany.

1674 British women collectively oppose coffee.

In 1675, King Charles II ordered all coffee shops in London to close, claiming that they had gathered reactionaries.

The first coffee shop in Germany opened in Hamburg in 1679.

The first coffee shop in Paris opened in 1689.

The King's Arms, the first coffee shop in the United States, opened in New York in 1696.

1706 coffee trees planted in Java, Indonesia were taken back to the Dutch Botanical Garden.

1714 the Netherlands cultivated saplings from Java into trees and gave them to the then King of France, Louis XIV.

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

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

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

1730 Britons bring coffee to Jamaica.

1732 musician Bach composed "Coffee Music" ("The Coffee Cantata"), pushing the coffee craze in Germany to a new high.

1777 German Emperor Frederick the Great belittled coffee and promoted beer as a German national drink.

1809 Brazil exported coffee to the United States for the first time and landed at Port Salem, Massachusetts.

1869 Coffee leaf rust was first discovered in Ceylon and nearly wiped out coffee trees in India, Ceylon and much of Asia in the following 10 years.

1873 John Arbuckle launched its first coffee powder brand "Ariosa" in the United States.

The New York Coffee Exchange opened in 1882.

1904 Fernando Illy invents the first modern Expresso coffee machine.

1906 Brazil retains some of its coffee harvest to raise international coffee prices, which the international market calls the "Coffee heroic Initiative" (Valorization of Coffee).

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

1911 the American coffee roasting industry forms the National Coffee Association.

1928 the Columbia Coffee Federation of South America.

1944 Brazil destroys 78 million bags of coffee.

1938 Nestl é technicians invented instant coffee in a Brazilian factory for the first time.

From 1939 to 1945, the United States Army brought instant coffee to the world.

The face of 1959 Juan Valdez has become a trademark of Colombia.

In 1962, the United States became the country with the highest average annual consumption in the world, reaching 3 cups per person per day.

1962 the International Coffee Agreement was established to represent the global coffee producers.

1971 Starbucks opened its first store in Seattle, USA.

1973 the first batch of Fairtrade Coffee was shipped from Guatemala to Europe.

In 1975, coffee production in Brazil has been greatly reduced due to snow freezing, and the price has soared.

1985 the International Coffee Agreement disintegrated and the price of coffee fell sharply.

1990-1995 Specialty coffee became popular.

1995 organic coffee became the protagonist of Specialty coffee.

Starbucks opened 2000 stores in 1998.