Timelines tagged “africa”
2 timelines
- Coffee
Coffee from wild arabica in the forests of Ethiopia and the first coffee drinking in Yemen around 1450 through Ottoman and European coffeehouses, colonial plantations, espresso and instant coffee to the record prices of 2025.
- Malaria
The history of malaria from Greek accounts of periodic fevers around 400 BCE through quinine, the discovery of the parasite and its mosquito vector, DDT-era eradication campaigns and artemisinin to the first vaccines in 2021 and 2023 and milestones through 2025.