2,740 |
BC |
Emperor Shen Nung discovers tea |
800 |
AD |
Lu Yu, Patron Saint of Tea, writes Cha Ching |
805 |
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Japanese Buddhist Dengyo Daishi, brought tea to Japan |
906 |
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Sung Dynasty during which tea ceramics and ceremony was developed |
1206 |
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Gengis Khan a non-tea drinking Mongolian, conquers China |
1275 |
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Marco Polo visits China and has no tea |
1368 |
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Ming Dynasty restores ethnic Chinese Emperors to the throne and revives tea drinking, this time as a steeped leaf. |
1498 |
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Portuguese round Cape of Good Hope and head for the orient |
1559 |
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Venetians first mention Tea |
1600 |
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East India Trading Company, later called the John Company, was officially formed by the beer drinking Queen Elizabeth, “for the honour of the nation, the wealth of the people…The increase of navigation and the advancement of lawfulle traffic,” |
1610 |
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Dutch merchants carried tea from Lisbon to the Baltic and France starting in 1610 |
1649 |
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Lord Cromwell takes over England by arresting then beheading Charles I. The remainder of The Royal family flees to Holland where Charles II grows up in a tea society |
1658 |
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Lord Cromwell dies and Charles II a tea drinker returns to the English throne, crowned in 1660. He soon after marries the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Berganza, another tea totaller. |
1658 |
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The first record of tea being advertised in Britain occurs in 1658, which advertised tea for sale at a coffee house called the Sultaness-Head. Later the same year at Garaway’s Coffee house as the “by all physicians approved china drink known as T’cha or tay” |
1742 |
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GROG invented |
1773 |
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England employees the Tea Act that grants the John Company shipping interests duty free tea trade in a attempt to undersell the illegal Dutch trade to American Colonists. The scheme backfires culminating the Boston Tea Party |
1834 |
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The John Company lost its tea monopoly and a tea committee was formed to explore the possibility of growing tea in India to break the Chinese monopoly. A questionnaire circulated offices in India seeking appropriate climates for tea. |
1840 |
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Opium war of 1840-42 dispelled the Chinese invincibility myth and forced at bayonets the dismantling of the Hong system and acceptance of free trade, the opening additional ports, low tariffs on imports and the recognition of foreign consuls. |
1857 |
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A second opium war in 1857, which burned the imperial summer palace, actually forced the Emperor to legalize opium. |
1869 |
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Suez Canal begins operations |
1871 |
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Last Clipper Ship race is won by the Cutty Sark |
1884 |
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First true teashop “ Lyons” |
1904 |
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John Sullivan a tea merchant invents the tea bag. |
1907 |
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Last Camel caravan leaves Usk Kayakhta |
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