-
600 BCE
the first cocolate
was first grown by the Maya
Indians, who lived in the Amazon region
around -
1519
The spanish cocolate
They mixed cocoa with corn, chilli and spices and
then boiled it. When the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortés reached Mexico -
1528
the return to Spain for the Spanish
The Spanish added sugar to the chocolate drink and kept the recipe for making chocolate a secret -
Chocolate Houses
became
the fashionable places to meet and chat, and after
the invention of the cocoa -
Fry & Sons
developed the first solid
chocolate bar for sale.