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Jan 1, 600
600 AD - Cocoa Bean is first documented
600 AD - The cocoa bean is considered the ultimate status symbol in the Mayan and Aztec cultures. They use the beans as currency and those wealthy enough to have an excess of beans use them to make a chocolate drink that gives them "wisdom and power". -
Jan 1, 1492
1492 - Columbus is first European to discover cocoa and chocolate.
1492 - Not only did Columbus sail the ocean blue, but brought cocoa beans back to Spain. He was the first European to discover cocoa and chocolate. -
1606 - Spain keeps chocolate a secret for over 100 years.
1606 - Spain manages to keep the discovery of chocolate a secret for more than a century. Antonio Carletti, an Italian merchant, breaks the Spanish monopoly of the chocolate trade. -
1616 - The secret of chocolate got out!
1616 - A Spanish princess married Louis XIII of France and the secret got out. Chocolate spread from France to England, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. -
Johan Franciscus Rauch of Vienna condems chocolate for his own personal dislike.
Chocolate incites controversy as Johan Franciscus Rauch of Vienna condemns chocolate as inflamer of passions and urges monks not to drink it. He calls it “wash for hogs.” Only because he disliked chocolate himself! -
England's first chocolate house opens
1657 - England's first chocolate house opens in London. It's a big hit with the upper class and soon becomes the place where the elite meet to sip. -
First chocolate made by machine.
The first chocolate made by machine is produced in Barcelona, Spain. -
First box of 'Whitmans" debuts.
The first packaged box of Whitman's chocolate debuts thus being the advent of boxed chocolates as we know them today.
Whitman's is one of America's largest and oldest brands of boxed chocolates. Whitman's confections have been produced since 1842, originally by Stephen Whitman. The Whitman's Sampler, an assortment of boxed chocolates, is still popular. -
Worlds first solid chocolate
In the 1850s, Englishman Joseph Fry changed the chocolate tradition by adding more cocoa butter, rather than hot water, to cocoa powder and sugar. The world’s first solid chocolate was born. -
First heart-shaped chocolate box is created
Richard Cadbury creates the first known heart-shaped chocolate box for Valentine’s Day. -
1876 - Nestle is formed and they creat condensed milk to add to chocolate.
1876 - The Swiss Daniel Peter was trying to add milk to chocolate to produce a smoother chocolate. However, you can't add water to chocolate, it makes the chocolate shrink and separate and generally disintergrate. Milk has water in it. Daniel Peter met Henri Nestle'. Nestle' had perfected the manufacture of condensed milk , so and Peter added milk solids to chocolate and produced the world's first milk chocolate, as well as starting the Nestle' Company. -
First Hershey Bar is sold
1895 - Milton S. Hershey sells his first Hershey Bar in Pennsylvania using modern, mass-production techniques that make the product less expensive and thus available for mass consumption. -
1904 - Cadbury's Dairy milk is created
The Cadbury Company develops a dairy milk chocolate. -
1908 - Toblerone is created by Theodore Tobler
Theodore Tobler develops the unique triangular nougat filled chocolate candy bar called Toblerone. -
1908 - The first chocolate bar with almonds is created by Hersheys.
1908 `The Hershey Chocolate Company makes the first milk chocolate bar with almonds. -
i fell in love with chocolate!
yummmm!
