Creation Coca-Cola was created by pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton on May 8, 1886. The beverage was initially intended as a patent medicine, but it eventually became a popular soft drink.

The beverage that would come to be known as Coca-Cola was first created on May 8, 1886 by Dr. John Stith Pemberton. He created it because his first invention, Pemberton’s French Wine Coca ...