1686—The first coffee house is opened in Regensburg, Germany.
1689—Café de Procope, the first real French café, is opened in Paris by François Procope, a Sicilian, coming from Florence.
1689—The first coffee house is opened in Boston.
1691—Portable coffee-making outfits to fit the pocket find favor in France.
1692—The "lantern" straight-line coffee pot with true cone lid, thumb-piece, and handle fixed at right angle to the spout, is introduced into England, succeeding the curved Oriental serving pot.
1694—The first coffee house is opened in Leipzig, Germany.
1696—The first coffee house (The King's Arms) is opened in New York.
1696—The first coffee seedlings are brought from Kananur, on the Malabar coast, and introduced into Java at Kedawoeng, near Batavia, but not long afterward are destroyed by flood.
1699—The second shipment of coffee plants from Malabar to Java by Henricus Zwaardecroon becomes the progenitors of all the arabica coffee trees in the Dutch East Indies.
1699—Galland's translation of the earliest Arabian manuscript on coffee appears in Paris under the title, Concerning the First Use of Coffee and the Progress It Afterward Made.