− G. E. Roberts publishes Cups and Their Customs.
1864 − George Pullman designs railway sleeping cars, dining cars, and lounge cars serving cocktails.
1865 − Alexander Walker, Johnnie Walker’s son, develops Old Highland blended Scotch whisky.
1867 − Scotsman Lauchlin Rose introduces sweetened lime juice and names it Rose’s Lime Cordial. By 1879, he perfected the packaging.
−George Dickel builds his distillery.
−Harper’s New Monthly November issue reports that 500 bottles of sherry were opened—in one day—to make Sherry Cobblers priced at one franc at the Exposition Universelle in France. One French franc is equivalent to $13 in 2018 currency.
1868 − Articles on American cocktails and cocktail shakers are published in two British publications: the British periodical Notes and Queries and Meliora: A Quarterly Review of Social Science.
1869 − Englishman William Terrington publishes Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks: Collection of Recipes for “Cups” and Other Compound Drinks and of General Information on Beverages of All Kind. He goes on to publish a second edition in 1872.
−J. Haney publishes Haney’s Steward and Barkeepers Manual.
−Mark Twain mentions a Champagne Cocktail in his memoir Innocents Abroad.
−American composer Joseph Winner wrote the drinking song “Little Brown Jug.” It mentions the spirits gin and rum. Seventy years later, bandleader Glenn Miller recorded it with his swing orchestra.
1872 − Lillet is produced.
1873 − At the World’s Exposition held in Vienna, Austria, the American Exhibition has a giant wigwam with Native American bartenders making cocktails behind three circular bars. The Exposition’s Rotunda bar introduces something new in their cocktails—straws.
1874 − The Criterion restaurant and theater open in London with an American Bar. The decor consists of mirrors and white marble.
−Fundador Spanish brandy is produced.
−While in the UK, Mark Twain writes a letter to his wife, Livy, to gather four ingredients for his return: Scotch whisky, Angostura bitters, lemons, and crushed sugar. He has been drinking this cocktail before breakfast, dinner, and bed at the suggestion of a surgeon to help digestion.
1875 − H. L. W publishes American Bar-Tender or The Art and Mystery of Making Drinks.
−The Jack Daniel’s Distillery is established.
1878 − L. Engel publishes American and Other Drinks.
1879 − O. H. Byron publishes The Modern Bartender’s Guide.
−J. Kirtion publishes Intoxicating Drinks: Their History and Mystery.
−The Grand Hotel Stockholm opens an American Bar.
−Myers’s Dark rum is produced.
1880s − The Cocktail à la Louisiane restaurant invents the Cocktail à la Louisiane in New Orleans.
1882 − Harry Johnson publishes Harry Johnson’s Bartender Manual or How to Mix Drinks of the Present Style.
−The first known mention of a Manhattan cocktail appears in the Sunday Morning Herald from Olean, New York.
1884 − E. J. Hauck patents a three-piece cocktail shaker.
−The New York G. Winter Brewing Company publishes a list of glassware for first-rate saloons. The bartender guide lists over twenty-five types of glassware needed.
1887 − Jerry Thomas publishes the second edition of The Bar-Tender’s Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks.
−C. Paul publishes American Drinks.
1888 − Henry Charles “Carl” Ramos invents the Ramos Gin Fizz in New Orleans.
−H. Lamore publishes The Bartender or How to Mix Drinks.
1890s − Jules Alciatore invents the Café Brûlot Diabolique (Devilishly Burned Coffee) in New Orleans.
1891 − Henry J. Wehmann publishes Wehmann’s Bartenders Guide. To date, this book has the second known reference to a Martini recipe.
−William T. Boothby publishes Cocktail Boothby’s American Bartender.
1892 − “The Only William” Schmidt publishes The Flowing Bowl—What and When to Drink. Four years later, he published his second book, Fancy Drinks and Popular Beverages. Schmidt’s books were different from all other cocktail celebrity books at the time because his recipes called for unusual items such as tonic phosphate, Calisaya (Italian herbal liqueur), crème de roses, and even a garnish that involved stenciling on a nutmeg. He had Christmas cocktails published in the paper, created a $5 cocktail ($140 in 2018 currency), and although not 100 percent confirmed—but highly believed—he was the first known gay celebrity bartender.
−George Kappeler invents the Widow’s Kiss at the Holland House Hotel in New York.
−G. F. Heublein produces the first commercial Manhattan and Martini bottled cocktails, with the tagline “A better cocktail at home than is served over any bar in the world.”
−Cornelius Dungan patents the double cone jigger.
1895 − C. F. Lawlor publishes The Mixicologist or How to Mix All Kinds of Fancy Drinks.
−Jack Daniel’s begins bottling in its famous square bottle.
−R. C. Miller publishes American Bar Tender.
−George J. Kappler publishes Modern American Drinks: How to Mix and Serve all Kinds of Cups and Drinks.
1897 − The Rob Roy is introduced at New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel.
−Sir Thomas Dewar and Fredric Glassup release a Dewar’s Scotch commercial film in New York City that is projected on a canvas screen in Herald Square at 1321 Broadway. It is the first alcohol commercial to appear on film.
1898 − The Savoy Hotel in London opens an American Bar.
−The Ward 8 cocktail is invented in Boston.
1899 − Sweden opens their first American Bar.
1900s–2000s
The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City had been open for seven years and set the standard for quality cocktails around the world. Drink making was appreciated and bartending was an art form. The hotel bar never published a cocktail book, but newspaperman and barfly Albert Crockett published The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book in 1931 and 1935, which gives us a glimpse into that era. In the early 1900s, breweries owned most saloons, barkeeps made $15 a week ($400 in 2018 currency), and Sunday was the busiest day of the week. On January 16, 1920, the American Prohibition started, then ended December 5, 1933. The stock market crashed, media popularized cocktails, many brands were produced, discotheques increased sales, the drinking age changed twice, the AIDS epidemic hit, the
