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Mar 22, 600
Cocoa for Currency
Mayans move into South America and use coca beans as a unit of currency -
Mar 22, 1300
Restricted Cocoa
The Aztecs tax the beans and restrict them only to the elite -
Mar 22, 1400
From the New World
Christopher Colombus brought coca back to England after his fourth voyage to the New World for the King to Taste -
Worldwide!
The drinking of chocolate spreads all over the world -
The Good Stuff
Cadbury, Fry Sons and Ghiradelli start prducing chocloate in similar forms to what we are used to seeing today -
Hershey
Milton Hershey sells his first chocolate bar in Pennsylvania using modern mass-production techniques that makes chocolate affordable to the majority of the population. -
Hersheyville
Milton Hershey creates a town called Hersheyville dedicated to the production of Hershey's chocolate -
Designer
Designer chocoloate bars are invented -
A Box of Chocolates
The Swiss invent a way to fill chocolates and so the first box of filled chocolates is created -
Lots of Chocolate!
Today, the Netherlands are the largest producers and traders of chocolate. They export most of their cocoa in the form of chocolate, but keep other sources of cocoa to be sold as powder to other countries to produce their own chocolate
