Timeline of agriculture and food technology

• 6500 BC - Evidence of cattle domestication in Turkey. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world
• 4000 BC - Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast
• 4000 BC - Evidence for rice domestication in the Korat plateau area of northwestern Thailand
• 3500 BC - First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador
• 2000 BC - Evidence of the domestication of chickens around India. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world.
• 1800 BC - Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is discovered.
• 600 - The moldboard plough is invented in eastern Europe
• 850 - Use of coffee is known in Arabia
• 1300 - Arnau de Villanova develops alcohol distillation
• 1837 - John Deere invents steel plough
• 1863 - International "Corn Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different countries
• 1866 - Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian inheritance
• 1871 - Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization
• 1944 - Green revolution begins in Mexicough