Spread+of+Tea

=** Spread of Tea **=  Thomas Garraway began offering tea at his London coffee house. ** || King Charles II and introduced tea drinking to the British court. ** || ||
 * =  **479 Turkish traders bargain for tea on the border of Mongolia. ** ||
 * = **618-907 T'ang Dynasty Tea becomes a popular drink in China for both its flavor and medicinal qualities. ** ||
 * = **805 A Japanese Buddhist priest, Saicho, is credited with introducing tea to Japan. ** ||
 * = **1560 information about tea began to filter back to Europe ** ||
 * = **1590s Dutch explorers became acquainted with tea and were soon importing tea to Europe. ** ||
 * =  **1657 the British East India Company held the first public sale of tea in England, while that same year
 * = **1662 tea received a big boost in England when the Portuguese Catherine of Braganza married
 * = **1835 The East India Company starts the first tea plantations in Assam, India.**



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