History of Coffee

By malianderson
  • 1453

    Ottoman Turk's bring coffee to Constantinople.

  • 1475

    The world's first coffee shop, "Kiva Han", opened in Constantinople.

    The world's first coffee shop, "Kiva Han", opened in Constantinople.
  • 1511

    Khair Beg tried to ban coffee

    Khair Beg tried to ban coffee
    Khair Beg, who was the corrupt governor of Mecca, tried to ban coffee. He feared that drinking coffee would spark the rebellion against him. The sultan at the time proclaimed coffee sacred and had the governor executed.

  • Coffee is brought to Venice.

    Coffee is brought to Venice.
    Coffee is brought to Venice by Italian traders and starts spreading the West hemisphere. Pope Advisers of the Clement VIII tried to persuade him to declare coffee an infidel threat because it comes from the Ottoman Empire but he baptized it and declared it an acceptable Christian drink.

  • Captain John Smith

    Captain John Smith
    Captain John Smith was one of the founders the colony of Virginia at Jamestown and introduces coffee to North America.

  • Italy gets its first coffeehouse.

    Italy gets its first coffeehouse.

  • England gets its first coffeehouse.

    England gets its first coffeehouse.

  • Edward Lloyd opens a coffeehouse.

    Edward Lloyd opens a coffeehouse.
    Edward Lloyd opens his coffeehouse in England and has many merchants and maritime insurance agents as guests. This place becomes Lloyd's of London, world-known insurance company.

  • First coffeehouse opens in Paris.

    First coffeehouse opens in Paris.

  • First coffeehouse opens in Vienna.

    First coffeehouse opens in Vienna.
    Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, opens the first coffee house in Vienna from spoils of battle for Vienna: bags of coffee that were left by Turkish Army.

  • The Dutch smuggle coffee.

    The Dutch smuggle a coffee plant out of the Arab port of Mocha and become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially.

  • First coffeehouse opens in Berlin.

    First coffeehouse opens in Berlin.

  • Hills Bros.

    Hills Bros.
    Hills Bros. starts to pack roast coffee in vacuum tins which marks the moment of the decline of the local roasting shops and coffee mills.

  • First soluble instant coffee.

    Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago invents the first soluble instant coffee.

  • The first mass-produced instant coffee.

    The first mass-produced instant coffee was invented by George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala.

  • Nestle invents freeze dried coffee.

    Nestle invents freeze dried coffee.
    Nestle company invented freeze-dried coffee as a method for Brazil to keep their coffee surpluses. From that Nestle invents Nescafe.

  • In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine.

    In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine.

  • Starbucks opens its first store

    Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market.