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Christopher Columbus was born in this year.
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Columbus comes to the new world and finds all sorts of new crops such as corn.
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In this year Columbus came back from his trip to the new world and introduced all sorts of new vegetables and fruits such as cucumbers to Europe.
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Columbus dies on this day.
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Bananas are delivered to the new world from africa.
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In this year there are the first writings of brussel sprouts.
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Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma is born at about this year.
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In this year Jamestown planted cucumbers and carrots.
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People start drinking tea in Europe.
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In this year Robert Morison was born. In his life he would become the first professor of Botany in England.
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People start drinking tea in England.
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Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma published his chocolate recipe which called for 100 cocoa beans, 2 chilis, a handful of anise, ear flower, 2 mecasuchiles, 1 vanilla, 2 oz of cinnamon, 12 almonds, 12 hazelnuts, a half pound of sugar, and achiote to taste. All of it beaten in hot water to froth.
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In this year sweet potatoes were first planted in Virginia.
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People start drinking coffee in England.
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In France David Chaliou became the only person allowed to sell and make chocolate.
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This year is about the year that Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma died.
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Robert Morison is named the professor of botany at Magdalen College which is the first recognition of Botany as an academic discipline in England.
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Robert Morison published the first scientific study of a plant (the carrot family).
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In this year robert Morison died.
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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Dieudonne Boussingault is born to later point out that plants need oxygen for photosynthesis.
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A French chemist isolated quinine from the bark of the Cinchona for the treatment of malaria.
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Chocolate candy was created this year.
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In this year Jean Baptiste- Joseph- Dieudonne Boussingault pointed out that plants need oxygen for photosynthesis.
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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Dieudonne Boussingault dies on this day.
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On this day Albert Szent-Gyogyi is born to later become a noble prize winner.
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On this day Melvin Calvin was born to later become a noble prize winner.
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In this year Albert Szent- Gyogyi was awarded the nobel prize for being the first person to isolate vitamin C.
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In this year Melvin Calvin was awarded the nobel prize because he described light independent reactions of the photosynthetic system.
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On this day Albert Szent- Gyogyi died.
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On this day Melvin Calvin died.
