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Coffee comes to Europe from the Middle East, through Venetian Traders. All pictures come from here: http://www.ncausa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=68
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Coffee comes to New Amsterdam(Present-Day New York City)
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The Dutch get some Coffee seedlings and thus, ends the Arab Coffee Monopoly.
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King Louis XIV gets a coffee plant from the Dutch,
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Gabriel de Clieu gets a seedling off of the KIng's plant and takes it to Martinique and plants it and it grows 18 million coffee trees in the next 50 years. All pictures come from here: http://www.ncausa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=68
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Partisan metal smith makes first coffee percolator.
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FIrst Espresso Machine is made in France by Louis Bernard Rabaut.
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Jabez Burns, of New York, invents the first coffee roaster
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The Mr Coffee Corporation invents the first automatic drip coffeemaker.
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In the Ethiopian Highlands, Coffee's caffeinated affects are discovered, and it begins to spread across the Middle East.