Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Tea · trade good · not located
- London · city · United Kingdom
- Tea culture · cultural practice · not located
Evidence
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Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System
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.
MIT Visualizing Cultures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2010 · Verified
Peter C. Perdue, 'Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System', MIT Visualizing Cultures, visualizingcultures.mit.edu/rise_fall_canton_01 (essay PDF cw_essay.pdf)
Recorded on Tea
- Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
- Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
- Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
- Qing trade confined to Canton
- Boston Tea Party
- Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
- Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
- East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
- The Opium Wars
- First Assam tea auctioned in London
- Treaty of Nanking
- The Great Exhibition
- The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
- The first London Marathon
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- The Great Exhibition · 1 May – October 1851
- Treaty of Nanking · 1842-08-29
- First Assam tea auctioned in London · 1839-01-10
- The Opium Wars · 1839–1860
- East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded · 1834
- Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam · 1823