Juan de Córdoba of Seville becomes the first merchant we can identify to send an African slave to the New World. Córdoba, like other merchants, is permitted by the Spanish authorities to send only one slave. Others send two or three.
Period: Jan 1, 1502 to
History of Ghana
Jan 1, 1528
Spanish explorers introduce Chocolate drink from the aztecs to Europe
First British trading settlement set up on the Gold coast
London's first drinking Chocolate cafe opens
Britain starts campaign to stop the slave trade
Slavery abolished in Europe
The world's first Chocolate bars made in England by J S Fry and Sons
British takes control of the south of the Gold coast
A Ghanaian brings back cocoa plants from Fernado Po, an island off Africa
The first cocoa exported to Britain
The railway construction started by the British
The railway construction ended
A large harbour built at Takoradi
Campaign for independence starts
The Akosombo dam completed, to provide ghana with hydroelectricity
Economy almost collapses due to low cocoa prices and other problems
Ghana has to pay back loans of $1.5 billion to other countries
Ghana earns $222 million from selling rainforest timber
Crisis in Asia and Russia causes world chocolate sales to fall
