National French Bread Day Timeline

1928

Modern Bread is Embraced

While first viewed with some hesitancy, Rohwedder’s bread slicer is incorporated into factories — revolutionizing the bread manufacturing industry forever.

1917

Bread is Industrialized

Otto Rohwedder, an itinerant jeweler, invents the first mechanized bread slicer.

800 B.C.

Grain is Ground

The Mesopotamians create milling — a process we still use today to create flours — by stacking two flat circular stones on top of one another to grind the grain.

300 B.C.

Bread Rises

Ancient Egyptians begin utilizing yeast in bread, altering the typically flat breads — naan, pita, tortillas — and making them fluffier.