- Coffee was brought to Europe by traders from their travels to the far East and Levant. It was mentioned for the first time by Leonhard Raowalf, a renowned doctor of medicine and botany, in his memoirs "Raowalf's Travels". It was in the year 1576, and it says: "If you feel a desire to drink or eat something there is an open shop nearby, where you can sit on the floor or a rug and have a drink in company of other men. They have an exceptional beverage, which they call CHAUBE (coffee). The beverage is black almost like ink and it helps alleviate health difficulties, mostly stomach problems. It is drunk early in the morning, in the open, without Chinese porcelain, hot... They frequently sip it, but each time they take just a small sip and pass it on in a circle.

-Coffee usage spread from Constantinople via Italy to western Europe where it was soon accepted owing to Venetian trading connections with Levant. Italian botanist and doctor of medicine Prospero Alpini brought from his travels to Egypt (1850) first official description of the coffee plant, which he published in Venice: "I saw a tree in Cairo. It reminded me of a plant from Egypt that bears fruit and people call it bon or ban. Arabs and Egyptians use it to make a sort of beverage which they drink instead of wine and offer it on all public places, just like we offer wine. They call it CAOVA. The tree I saw looks like (spindle tree), but its leaves are thicker, more solid; greener. It is an evergreen."

- In the beginning of its European history coffee had often been condemned and banned by the Catholic Church. They called it a satanic potion, which Muslims drank instead of wine. Coffee was their substitute for wine, which they were not allowed to drink because of the connection with the Christian sacred traditions. At those times, Pope Clement VIII tasted coffee out of curiosity and he liked it so much that he decided to bless it thus it become a Christian drink.

- According to the records, the first coffee berries were brought to Venice by Pierre Della Valle from his travel to Turkey in 1615. In the beginning coffee was mostly used for medical purposes and it was very expensive.

- The first coffee house in Italy was opened in 1645, where coffee was sold along with all other refreshing drinks. By the end of the 18th century the oriental coffee counterpart was called CAFFE. Many catering facilities were opened in France, Germany and England on the model of Italian cafés.

- The most famous Venetian coffee house "CAFFE FLORIAN " was opened at St Marco’s Square in 1720 by Florian Francesconi. In those days it was a meeting place for the world elite.

- In 1644 coffee was imported to France via Marseilles (P. della Rouqe);

- 1650 – first coffee house in Oxford, at first it was favoured by students only;

- In 1652 first advertisement for coffee was published, Pasqna Rosee was the first one to get the permission to publicly sell coffee in London; London traders grew accustomed to drinking coffee in Turkey and Dalmatia,

- In 1616 Pieter van dan Broeck brought coffee from Mocha to Holland,

- In 1670 the custom of coffee drinking was brought to Germany from London, when an English trader opened a coffee house in Hamburg;

- In 1683, with the Turkish siege, coffee reached Vienna, where many elite coffee houses were opened which soon became a role model for the rest of the world. The most famous coffee house is SACHER CAFFE;

- 1624-1664 coffee was imported to North America from Amsterdam during the occupation. New England and other colonies followed the European example and opened coffee houses;

- In 1808 the first stock exchange market for coffee was opened in Boston as a result of a heavy market development on that area;

- the famous "coffee railway" - runs from Santos to Sao Paolo, it is 49 miles long and in some parts it runs at the altitude of 2500 meters.