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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1770s
1770 Capt. James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent.
1770 Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo Died. Born in Belgium, this ballerina danced with the Paris Opera. Escoffier named many gourmet dishes in her honor.
1772 The London Credit Exchange Company issued the first traveller's checks.
1773 Benjamin Delessert was born. French industrialist who developed the first successful process to extract sugar from sugar beets.
1773 The British Parliament passed the 'Tea Act,' one of the events that led to the American Revolution.
1773 The Boston Tea Party. A group of men dressed as Indians, boarded ships at Griffin's wharf and dumped hundreds of tea chests into Boston harbor. The American Revolution began.
1774 John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed was born. American pioneer and legend; planted apple seeds in Ohio River valley area (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)
1775 English author and poet Charles Lamb was born.
1775 Pecan Day. George Washington planted pecan trees (some of which still survive) at Mount Vernon. The trees were supposedly a gift to Washington from Thomas Jefferson. Some sources date this planting at 1799.
1777 According to the International Dairy Foods Association, the first ice cream advertisement appeared in the New York Gazette on this date.
1777 The Battle of Brandywine in the American Revolutionary War. The British win, enabling them to capture Philadelphia.
1777 John Bartram died. An American botanist, and considered the 'father of American botany,' he established a botanical garden in Philadelphia in 1728.
1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert died. He proved that Apple pie was irrational. Oops - never mind - that was 'pi' that he proved was an irrational number.
1778 Carolus Linnaeus died. He was a Swedish botanist who developed the system for defining and naming plants.
1778 Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands. He named them the Sandwich Islands, after Lord Sandwich, who was then first Lord of the Admiralty.
1779 Captain James Cook died. British explorer who charted and named many Pacific Islands, including the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
1779 Thomas Chippendale, famous furniture designer and maker died.
1779 The Smithfield Cattle and Sheep Society held the first Smithfield Show in London. It is now the leading agriculture show in the UK.
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