|
1502 |
Columbus brings reports of cocoa to Spain |
| 1519 |
Spain invades Mexico |
| 1528 |
Cortez brings coca to Europe |
| 1544 |
Dominican Friars bring
Maya nobles from Guatamala to see Prince Phillip of Spain.
They bring chocolate drinks with them. |
| 1579 |
English pirates burn a shipload of cocoa beans, thinking they are sheep droppings |
| 1585 |
First official import of cocoa beans into Seville |
| 1600's |
Hot, sweet chocolate drink
becomes established in Spain, and spreads to Italy and France. |
| 1650 |
Chocolate drink arrives in England |
| 1659 |
David Chaliou is granted exclusive rights to make and sell chocolate in France
An advert for chocolate appears in an English newspaper. |
| 1660 |
Maria Teresa, the wife of Louis XIV of France, drinks chocolate in secret |
| 1666 |
Francesco Redi introduces
perfume laden flavours to the drink |
| 1671 |
Chocolate is drunk widely by French Aristocratic women. |
| 1675 |
Charles II of england tries to supress "coffee houses",
which also serve chocolate and tea |
| 1693 |
Francis White opens White's Chocolate House in London |
| 1727 |
Milk is added to the chocolate drink by Nicholas Saunders |
| 1728 |
Fry and Sons of Bristol chocolate factory is founded |
| 1765 |
Hannon and Baker start grinding chocolate in Massachusetts
(now known as Walter Baker Co.) |
| 1776 |
The Frenchman Doret invents a hydraylic chocolate grinding machine |
| 1824 |
Cocoa tress are taken to Sao Tome, Africa
The Cadbury shop opens in Birmingham |
| 1826 |
The Swiss Sucahrd begins making chocolate, and uses the first
melangeur |
| 1828 |
Van Houten invents a hydraulic press to remove fat from cocoa |
| 1847 |
Fry and Sons mix cocoa powder, sugar and cocoa butter for casting into bars.
This is the World's first eating chocolate |
| 1853 |
Gladstone lowers the chocolate tax |
| 1862 |
Rowntree aquires a shop in York |
| 1866 |
Cadbury's get a
Van Houten machine
and produce "Cadbury's Cocoa Extract"
|
| 1868 |
Cadbury's produce the first "Chocolate Box" |
| 1867 |
The Swiss Henri Nestle invents powdered milk |
| 1876 |
Milton Hershey establishes a candy business |
| 1879 |
The first milk chocolate is produced by Daniel Peter using Nestle's milk
The Swiss Rudolph Lindt invents conching |
| 1880 |
Lindt chocolate, conched, and with increased cocoa butter is released |
| 1893 |
Hershey starts selling chocolate coated sewwts |
| 1899 |
The Swiss Jean Tobler begins selling Toblerone |
| 1970 |
Tobler merges with Suchard |
