1674—The Women's Petition Against Coffee is published in London.
1674—Coffee is introduced into Sweden.
1675—Charles II issues a proclamation to close all London coffee houses as places of sedition. Order revoked on petition of the traders in 1676.
1679—An attempt by the physicians of Marseilles to discredit coffee on purely dietetic grounds fails of effect; and consumption increases at such a rate that traders in Lyons and Marseilles begin to import the green bean by the ship-load from the Levant.
1679[L]—The first coffee house in Germany is opened by an English merchant at Hamburg.
1683—Coffee is sold publicly in New York.
1683—Kolschitzky opens the first coffee house in Vienna.
1684—Dufour publishes at Lyons, France, the first work on The Manner of Making Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.
1685—Café au lait is first recommended for use as a medicine by Sieur Monin, a celebrated physician of Grenoble, France.
1686—John Ray, one of the first English botanists to extol the virtues of coffee in a scientific treatise, publishes his Universal Botany of Plants in London.