Aspirin Marketed
1899
The Bayer company of Elberfeld began selling acetylsalicylic acid under the brand name Aspirin, based on a compound first synthesized in a stable form by Felix Hoffmann two years earlier. It was cheap, effective for pain and fever, and had no obvious downsides. It would become the most widely used drug in human history.
In context
Also in 1899 (8 other events on record)
- Second Boer War · Africa · War
- Philippine-American War · Southeast Asia · War
- Boxer Rebellion Begins · East Asia · War
- First Hague Convention · Europe · Politics
- Open Door Notes · East Asia · Politics
- Black Week · Africa · War
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Science
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.