http://www.weddingfirework.co.uk/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2010-07-31T09:38:10+01:00 http://www.weddingfirework.co.uk/schools/history_of_fireworks.html 2007-11-07T20:09:00+00:00 2007-11-07T20:09:00+00:00 suisse The history of fireworks dates back to nearly two thousand years. A cook in China is generally supposed to have discovered fireworks accidentally when he mixed three ingredients that were commonly used in the kitchen in those days, namely sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate (salt peter).