The chocolate - Know it!!

We can do something, do not know love. This is a case of chocolate. Millions of people around the world are delicious product that is used in thousands of different ways. But not many people who know the exact origin and history of this great product.
These are the most important steps in the history of chocolate.
In 1000, the history of chocolate begins with cocoa in South America. First, the cocoa beans were used as currency.
In 1200, a war of chocolate. Aztecs with other South American populations, who have to pay the necessary Aztec cocoa.
In 1502, Christopher Columbus visited the United States for the fourth time and was the first European to discover cocoa beans. Cocoa beans were used by local residents as a coin or in the preparation of delicious drinks. Columbus, however, always in search of sea route to India was not interested in cocoa. Price of slaves was 100 cocoa beans, for example.
In 1519, Spain was not interested in the cocoa flavor, but their economic value, as people use it as currency. Therefore, Cortez brought cocoa to Europe, and immediately issued in the name of the cocoa plantations in Spain, where it was "money" is attached.
In 1528, the chocolate produced in Europe and 1609 in Mexico, is the first book on chocolate as a "book that was chocolate."
Introduced in 1615, he married Anne of Austria XIII, Louis, chocolate, French and Spanish royal courts.
In 1657, France was the first chocolate in London around the world.
In 1704, the chocolate will be in Germany, and King Frederick I on top of taxes enough chocolate. It was a luxury.
In 1780, the first machine for the production of chocolate launched in Barcelona in 1870. In 1810, Venezuela was the largest producer of cocoa. Half of cocoa in the world outside that country, and one third of production is consumed by the Spanish.
The reputation of Swiss chocolate enhanced today by numerous medals at international exhibitions worldwide, including peer review.