Apothecary Jars--Timeline
| 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 (using apothecaries' 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 |
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