1880s

Jacob Ronacher opens Café Ronacher, renamed Sperl within the year

The Bauer opens in Venice under Julius Grünwald

Hans Niels Andersen, aged 29, buys the Oriental and rebuilds it as the first luxury hotel in Siam

Hotel Des Indes opens in The Hague, converted from a nobleman's residence

The Villard Houses are built on Madison Avenue; the Palace hotel rises behind them in 1980

The Windsor opens in Melbourne, the oldest grand hotel in Australia

The Great Eastern becomes the first hotel in India with electric light

Incheon opens as a treaty port; foreign residence and shipping make the ports laboratories for Western hotel service

Franz Peck opens a Prague-style salumeria on via Orefici, Milan

The first Orient Express leaves Paris for Constantinople on 4 October

Café Landtmann opens in Vienna

A fire destroys much of Al-Hamidiyah; the rebuilding under Abdul Hamid II adds the iron vault that still roofs it

The Riffelalp opens above Zermatt at 2,222 metres, with Europe's highest tramway

Kavárna Slavia opens opposite the new National Theatre on 30 August

Tigran Sarkies opens the Eastern Hotel in Penang on 15 April

Tigran Sarkies opens the Eastern in Penang on 15 April, aged twenty-three

The Cecil opens at Simla, the summer capital of British India

The Hassler opens at the top of the Spanish Steps; the Wirth family holds it still

Les Deux Magots becomes a café, keeping the name and the two Chinese figures

Dunton is founded as a mining camp in Colorado; it reopens as a hotel in 2001

The Canadian Pacific begins its chain of railway hotels across the Dominion

Isetan opens in Tokyo

Canadian Pacific begins operating hotels along its railway lines; the department becomes Fairmont

Auguste Fauchon opens his fine-foods shop on the place de la Madeleine

Mena House opens at Giza, the first hotel in Egypt with electricity, facing the Great Pyramid

Fortnum's becomes the first shop in Britain to stock Heinz baked beans

Isetan opens in Kanda, Tokyo

The Winter Palace opens at Luxor for travellers up the Nile

Sénéquier opens on the Quai Jean-Jaurès

The Sarkies brothers open Raffles on 1 December with ten rooms

The Cardu and Rossi building opens in May — today the Oriental's Authors' Wing

The Sarkies brothers open Raffles in Singapore

Hotel Kämp opens in Helsinki on the Esplanade

The Grand Hotel opens on Mackinac Island with the longest porch in the world

Café Gijón opens on the Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid, on 15 May

Christophersen designs a new Avenida de Mayo façade for Tortoni; its back becomes its front

The Hotel del Coronado opens on the beach south of San Diego

The Banff Springs opens, built by the Canadian Pacific Railway

The Savoy opens under Richard D'Oyly Carte — Britain's first luxury hotel: electric light throughout, electric lifts, private bathrooms

César Ritz arrives at the Savoy in August and brings Auguste Escoffier (LHL-P-005) with him

The Dresdner Bank headquarters is built on Bebelplatz; it opens as the Hotel de Rome in 2006

The Eden opens in Rome above the Spanish Steps

The Métropole opens at Monte-Carlo on the gardens

The Eastern and the Oriental merge in Penang as the Eastern & Oriental

Antoine Sella opens the Grand Hôtel du Cap as a hotel, having bought it in 1887

Hotel Jerome opens at Aspen during the silver boom