National Coffee Day Timeline

2012

Jerry Seinfeld combines classic cars, cute coffee shops, and the world's top comedians to create improvised TV vignettes. One episode features Seinfeld and President Obama driving around the White House grounds in a 1963 Corvette Stingray. (Obama was born in 1961.)

1723

One seedling starts it all

Coffee in the Americas and the Caribbean, came from a single seedling transported to Martinique by a French naval officer.

mid-1600's

Coffee arrives in the colonies

The British bring coffee with them to New Amsterdam, modern-day New York City, and a morning craving is born!

17th century

Europe gets a taste

When European traders and merchants discover coffee in the Middle East, the brew's popularity catches on and spreads throughout the continent

16th century

Coffee becomes a Middle Eastern "thing"

Along with tea, thirsty people start drinking coffee throughout the Middle East in countries like Persia (modern-day Iran,) Turkey, Egypt, and Syria.