The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed. Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider that favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown. It's believed that he introduced coffee to North America.
First coffeehouse opens in Italy.
Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse opens in England and is frequented by merchants and maritime insurance agents. Eventually it becomes Lloyd's of London, the best-known insurance company in the world. First coffeehouse opens in Paris. The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city.