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100
2000 BC, Cocoa grows in Amazon
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Period: 100 to Dec 31, 1100
1900BC-900BC, Mesoamerica cultures prepare chocolate berverages, probably Olmecs are the first to make the chocolate drinks
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300
300 B.C. Mayas revered the cocoa pods, elite drank an unsweeted cocoa drink, given by Olmecs
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Jan 1, 600
Mayas used chocolate religiously
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Jan 1, 1000
Cocoa beans are used as currency and unit of calculation, taxes to Aztecs are paid in cocoa beans, making the chocolate drink a high-class drink
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Jan 1, 1200
Mayans give chocolate to the Aztecs, who flavored the drink with spices, cocoa beans are taxed and becomes currency, high-class Aztecs drink it, called it xocolatl
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Jan 1, 1519
Hernan Cortes is first European to value cocoa bean as a currency, opens cocoa plantation for Spain, allowing Spain to have a monoploy on chocolate for a while
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Jan 1, 1569
Pope popularized chocolate by declaring the nutritional Chocolate drink as not breaking the fast
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Chocolate spread throughout Europe, after a century of Spain having a monoply on chocolate
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Chocolate becomes accepted in Europe after royalty promoted it, chocolate like before, was a treat for the rich
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The first chcolatehouse is opened in London by a Frenchman
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Chocolate returns to Americas
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Cocoa press was invented by C.J. Van Houten, meaning chocolate no longer had to be hand pressed, siginificently reducing the price and allowing chocolate to be enjoyed by a greater audience, also allowed fat from the chocolate to be pressed out, allowin
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John Cadbury's buisness turns from a grocery to chocolate manufactoring, leading eventually to the creation of Cadbury Limited, on of the largest chocolate producers today.
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Ghirardelli Chocolate opens.
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Nestle tries to create infant milk, leads to Daniel Peter trying to invent milk chocolate
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Milk chocolate is invented by Daniel Peter and Henry Nestle
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Rodolphe Lindt added cocoa butter pressed out back in, creating the first chocolate bar
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Milton Hershey built what would become the largest chocolate manufactoring plant in the world and started mass producing chocolate
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Frank Mars opens what will become Mars, Inc., the third largest private company in America
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U.S. military orders chocolate bars as rations for soldiers to boost morale and for chocolate's nutritional value
