XVIII century

The Madar-e Shah caravanserai is endowed at Isfahan by the mother of the last Safavid shah

A shop is first recorded on Dienerstrasse, Munich — the origin of Dallmayr

The Pupp begins at Karlsbad; the present hotel carries the name from 1775

The Taschenberg Palace is built at Dresden for Augustus the Strong's mistress; it opens as a hotel in 1995

William Fortnum and Hugh Mason open a grocery in St James's Market

The Tawaraya opens in Kyoto; eleven generations of one family have run it

The first roadside inn of the postal service is built at St Petersburg — the date the Russian hotel trade takes as its own beginning

Peter I decrees the establishment of inns and gostiny dvory — ⚑ Russia regulated lodging before it had restaurants, which is the reverse of every other country in this register

Caffè Florian opens on the Piazza San Marco

The building that becomes Le Yaca is raised in the old village of Saint-Tropez

Stohrer opens on rue Montorgueil

Nicolas Ruinart writes in his ledger on 1 September that he is starting a business in wine with bubbles — the first champagne house

Rajmahal is built at Jaipur; it remains the only Pink City hotel still owned by the Maharaja

Hoshi Ryokan — recorded founding

Nicolas Stohrer opens on rue Montorgueil, bringing pastry, wafers, gingerbread and sugar work under one roof

Caffè Gilli opens on via Calzaioli, Florence

Jacques Fourneaux founds the house that becomes Taittinger

Fortnum & Mason claims the invention of the Scotch egg

Moët is founded at Épernay

The Lake Palace is built on Jag Niwas island by Maharana Jagat Singh II

Hotel D'Angleterre begins in Copenhagen on Kongens Nytorv

Borough Market moves to its present site off Borough High Street ⚑ trade on the site is documented from the twelfth century

The Canton System confines foreign trade to the Thirteen Factories at Guangzhou — merchants work and live inside a quarter they may not leave

Louis XV commissions Ange-Jacques Gabriel to build twin palaces on the Place de la Concorde

Al Zubarah is founded on the pearl trade — courtyard houses, harbour works and a fort over the wells

Antico Caffè Greco opens on the via dei Condotti — the only café of its day admitting women

Pierre-Jean Bernard opens Maison Bernard on the rue du Faubourg Montmartre

Giuseppe Dentis opens Al Bicerin facing the Consolata; the bicerin follows

A. Boulanger opens in Paris — by tradition the first 'restaurant', a menu at individual tables

Lapérouse opens on the quai des Grands-Augustins

Ruinart buys the crayères beneath Reims — chalk quarries dug in Roman times, later listed and UNESCO-inscribed

The house that becomes Veuve Clicquot is founded; Madame Clicquot takes it in 1805 at twenty-seven

Victor Louis builds the Grand Hôtel opposite his own opera house at Bordeaux

Sulpice Debauve mixes Marie-Antoinette's medicine into cocoa and presses the first solid chocolate

Abdel Hamid Pasha builds the Al-Hamidiyah souq along the Roman decumanus that once led to the Temple of Jupiter

Bedouin traders gather to sell standing on the Wadi Musheireb; the market that names itself for it becomes the origin of Doha ⚑ Qatari historians give about 250 years

Antoine Beauvilliers opens La Grande Taverne de Londres — the first grand restaurant

Ludwig Dehne opens a confiserie on the Michaelerplatz to supply the Hofburgtheater

Seteais is built at Sintra; it opens as a hotel in 1955

The Revolution abolishes the guilds; the aristocracy's chefs open their own houses and the restaurant boom begins

The Finkbeiner family begins at Baiersbronn; the Traube Tonbach grows from the inn

Doyen begins trading on the Champs-Élysées; the pavilion built 1842 by Hittorff

Heiligendamm opens as the first seaside resort on the German Baltic

Louis XVI is guillotined on the square in front of the future Crillon

The City Hotel opens on Broadway — the first building in America erected to be a hotel, 73 rooms

Thomas Rule opens Rules as an oyster bar — five owners in the 228 years since