Ninth Century--First record of coffee drinking by the Mufti people of Aden (Legend has it that the ubiquitous bean made its way to Yemen from Ethiopia by traveling merchants through trade routes across the Gulf of Aden)15th Century--Extensive planting of coffee in Yemen
Late 16th Century--Priests petition Pope Clement VIII to ban the evil drinking of coffee (he refuses--probably a closet coffee lover)
17th Century--First coffee house opened in London (Trivia--coffeehouses became known as "penny universities" because a person could buy a cup of joe for 1 cent and learn more at the coffee house than in class! London Stock Exchange grew from a coffee house)
1656--Coffee drinking prohibited & coffeehouses closed in Turkey by the Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire (penalty for drinking coffee: a dunk in the Bosphorus in a leather satchel!)
1669--Coffee becomes popular in Europe after Turkish ambassador to France introduces Louis XIV to the magic brew
1674--Women's Petition Against Coffee established in London
1686--First cafe serving coffee is opened in Paris (Le Procope--it's still in business!)
1690--Coffee introduced in Java (pardon the pun!)
18th Century--More coffeehouses in London than there are today
1714--Coffee takes root in the Americas (seedlings shipped to Martinique in the West Indies)
1822--First espresso machine made in France
1908--Melitta Bentz, a housewife from Dresden, invents the first coffee filter
1909--Instant coffee first marketed
1940--Coffee production quotas established by an Inter-American Coffee Board
1962--Coffee export quotas established worldwide by the UN
1970s--Coffee hits the big leagues as Joe DiMaggio endorses "Mr. Coffee"
1989--World coffee prices plunge
1991--The origin of Java (The programming language developed by Sun)
January 15th, 1999--SmellTheCoffee.com is Launched!
September 6th, 1999--SmellTheCoffee.com gets a face lift!
November 18th, 1999--The eCoffeeShop at SmellTheCoffee.com opens for business!
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