Hemp History CE Archives

1150: Moors use cannabis to start Europe's first paper mill. The Moorish conquest of Spain brought papermaking into Europe. Using ...

1200: Botanist Ibn al-Bayṭār describes the cultivation of "Konnab Indi" (Cannabis indica). Reporting on his trip to Egypt, 13th-century Spanish ...

1200 BC: Earliest evidence of cannabis in America. Cannabis pollen, discovered near an ancient Viking settlement in Newfoundland, is generating ...

1200 - 1300: Anglo-French speak of 'canevaz' which means made of cannabis. The word 'canvas' is derived from the 13th ...

1300: Hashish “leads to paradise”. The Travels of Marco Polo, in which he gives second-hand reports of the story of ...

1300: The city of Callosa de Segura in Spain is the largest producer of hemp-made goods. The medieval city of ...

1484: Pope Innocent VIII labels cannabis as an unholy sacrament. Pope Innocent VIII (1432 – 25 July 1492), born Giovanni ...

1563: Queen Elizabeth orders landowners with 60 acres or more to grow cannabis or face a £5 fine. In 1533, ...

1564: King Phillip II orders hemp to be grown throughout the Spanish Empire. In 1492 Columbus 'discovered' America and claimed ...