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First Assam tea auctioned in London

A consignment reported as forty-six chests of Assam-grown tea was sold at auction in London, the first Indian-grown tea offered on the British market. It proved the crop commercially and triggered the formation of the Assam Company later the same year. From this point the question stops being whether British India can grow tea and becomes how fast plantations, land and labour can be assembled to do it at scale.

Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.

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Recorded on Assam

  1. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  2. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  3. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  4. Qing trade confined to Canton
  5. Boston Tea Party
  6. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  7. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  8. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  9. The Opium Wars
  10. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  11. Treaty of Nanking
  12. The Great Exhibition
  13. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
  14. The first London Marathon

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