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- Circa
2700 B.C. Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovers tea
- Circa 725 B.C.
T’ang Dynasty: Ch’a, tea in Chinese, becomes part of daily life
- 805 A.D.
Dengo Daishi, Buddhist patron saint of Japanese Tea, introduces tea
growing in Japan
- 1191 After
centuries of neglect, the cultivation of tea in Japan is revived by the
Buddhist Abbot Yesai, who subsequently published the first Japanese tea
book.
- 1500
Ming Dynasty: in imitation of spouted wine earthenware, the first teapots
were made at Yi-Xang, near Shanghai famous for its clays. Black, green and
oolong tea become prevalent.
- 1610
Tea reaches Europe for the first time, carried by the Dutch from a trading
station in Bantam, Java. They buy tea from Chinese merchants, who speak
the Amoy dialect and therefore refer to the product as "Tea".
- 1623
The first annual public Japanese tea ritual, known as the "Tea Journey" is
held.
- 1657
Garway’s Coffee house in London holds the first public sale of tea.
Garway’s starts to advertise the "Vertues of the leaf tea".
- 1680
Madame de la Sabliere, wife of the French poet, introduces France to the
custom of drinking tea with milk. Pouring the milk into the cup of hot tea
cooled the tea slightly, making it less apt to break her cherished
eggshell porcelain tea cups.
- 1773
On December 16, at the Boston Tea Party, American colonists dump the
entire Boston consignment of the John Company’s tea into the harbor in
protest of the exorbitant tea tax.
- 1856
The first tea is planted in the Darjeeling District of Northern India.
- 1900
The last camel caravan carrying tea departs Peking for Russia. During the
same year, the last link of the Trans-Siberian railroad is completed.
- 1904
Due to the unbearable heat, iced tea is invented at the St. Louis World’s
fair. Dr Shepard’s South Carolina grown tea wins "Best in Show" medal.
- 1908
Mr. William Sullivan, tea merchant in New York, inadvertently invents the
tea bag.
- 1925
Africa passes the million-pound mark in tea shipments. Brooke Bond begins
buying land and planting tea in Kenya.
-
1958 Three Hundred years after China tea was
first introduced to England, it is sold there for the
first time by its
Chinese producers.
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Revised:
May 11, 2008.
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