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Tea first shipped to Europe by sea

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Dutch East India Company vessels carried the first commercial consignments of tea to the Netherlands in the early seventeenth century, from where it spread as an expensive novelty to other European markets. It was sold publicly in London coffee houses from the 1650s and remained a luxury for a century afterwards, kept costly by high duties and by the difficulty of the China trade. The route was now maritime, but the supply chain still terminated at Chinese ports controlled entirely by Chinese sellers.

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  1. Story
  2. Dutch East India Company vessels carried the first commercial consignments of tea to the Netherlands in the early seventeenth century, from where it spread as an expensive novelty to other European markets. It was sold publicly in London coffee houses from the 1650s and remained a luxury for a century afterwards, kept costly by high duties and by the difficulty of the China trade. The route was now maritime, but the supply chain still terminated at Chinese ports controlled entirely by Chinese sellers.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Tea
  5. London
  6. Tea culture
  7. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  8. Connections
  9. Tea
  10. London
  11. Tea culture
  12. Camellia sinensis
  13. Silver
  14. London
  15. Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao)
  16. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  17. English (later British) East India Company
  18. Tea culture
  19. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  20. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  21. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  22. Qing trade confined to Canton
  23. Boston Tea Party
  24. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  25. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  26. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  27. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  28. The Opium Wars
  29. Treaty of Nanking
  30. Tea
  31. Afternoon tea
  32. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  33. Boston Tea Party
  34. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  35. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  36. London Marathon
  37. New York City
  38. White City Stadium
  39. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
  40. The first London Marathon
  41. The Great Exhibition
  42. Google DeepMind
  43. Tea
  44. Afternoon tea
  45. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  46. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  47. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  48. Evidence
  49. Between 1757 and 1842 all Western maritime trade with China was confined to Canton and conducted through the Cohong, with tea the dominant export and silver the dominant means of payment.
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