| 43 AD |
Rome |
Scribonius Largus' formulary provides the first definition of opium |
| 60 |
Greece |
Dioscorides' drug treatise written |
| 618 - 907 |
China |
First instances of porcelain manufacturing |
| 700 |
Baghdad |
First mentions of privately owned, governmentally supervised, stores preparing and dealing in drugs |
| 1295 |
Italy |
Dante enrolls in the Guild of Physicians and Apothecaries |
| 1400 |
Italy |
Albarello (an earthenware jar designed to hold apothecaries' ointments and dry drugs) production begins |
| 1500 |
Europe |
Pharmacies found in most towns and cities throughout Europe |
| 1643 |
Belgium |
First European mention of cinchona (bark from a South America plant used to treat malaria) |
| 1682 |
Germany |
Johann Friedrich Böttger, a former apothecary clerk,reintroduced porcelain to Europe. Porcelain apothecary jars followed. |
| 1777 |
USA |
Andrew Craigie (Boston apothecary) appointed the first American Apothecary General |
| 1820 |
USA |
United States Pharmacopoeia first published (usingapothecaries' system for weight) |
| 1850 |
USA |
Soda fountains began to appear as focal points of pharmacies |
| 1856 |
USA |
First sugar-coated pills produced in the United States (Philadelphia) |
| 1971 |
USA |
Apothecaries' system replaced by metric system in the US Pharmacopoeia |
