| Here are a few notable things during that period. There are of course many more, but we could write a book with all the information.
1294 - Marco Polo writes about the Ceylon Pearl Beds
1498 - Christopher Columbus returns from his third trip to the Americas with pearls from the Venezuelan coast.
1560 - The famous 'La Peregrina' is found off Pearl Island in Panama.
1558-1603 - England's Queen Elizabeth I popularizes natural pearls by wearing 7 ropes of pearls daily, and owning more than 3000 pearl-embroidered dresses, and 80 pearl-decorated wigs.
1742 - Swedish naturalist 'Linneaus' is the first to experiment with culturing pearls by drilling holes into freshwater mussels and inserting limestone beads as nuclei. |