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~850 - Coffee beans discovered - The fable says that an Ethiopian goat or sheepherder noticed that the goats were more alter after eating the wild berries. He then sampled this new delicacy.
~1100 - First coffee trees and roasting of coffee beans.
1475 - Constantinople – the world’s first coffee house.
1600s - Coffee enters Europe and moves quickly to the Americas
1700s - Coffee house open throughout Europe.
1723 - First coffee plants are introduced into the Americas.
1822 - First espresso machine is created in France.
1938 - First instant coffee invented by the Nestlé company.
1971 - Starbucks opens its first location in Seattle, Washington's Pike Place Market..
The coffee and cola industries owe their wealth to the physiological properties of the drug caffeine.
S.G. Gilbert (2001)