Industrial Age · North America · Culture
1886
Coca-Cola Invented
1886
In Atlanta, a morphine-addicted Confederate veteran turned pharmacist named John Pemberton stirred up a tonic of coca-leaf extract, kola-nut caffeine, and syrup in a brass kettle. It sold poorly at first, mostly as a headache cure at soda fountains. Pemberton sold his rights for a few thousand dollars and died broke.
In context
Also in 1886 (5 other events on record)
- Gold at Witwatersrand · Africa · Politics
- Haymarket Affair · North America · Politics
- Statue of Liberty Dedicated · North America · Culture
- Geronimo Surrenders · North America · War
- Third Anglo-Burmese War · Southeast Asia · War
Before and after in North America
- Before: 1885: Canadian Pacific Completed
- After: February 8, 1887: Dawes Act
Before and after in Culture
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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