Timeline of agriculture and food technology
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Timeline of agriculture and food technology
- 6500 BC - Evidence of cattle domestication in Turkey. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world
- 4000 BC - Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast
- 4000 BC - Evidence for rice domestication in the Korat plateau area of northwestern Thailand
- 3500 BC - First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador
- 2000 BC - Evidence of the domestication of chickens around India. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world.
- 1800 BC - Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is discovered.
- 600 - The moldboard plow is invented in eastern Europe
- 850 - Use of coffee is known in Arabia
- 1300 - Arnau de Villanova develops alcohol distillation
- 1837 - John Deere invents steel plow
- 1863 - International "Corn Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different countries
- 1866 - Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian inheritance
- 1871 - Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization
- 1944 - Green revolution begins in Mexico