Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Stith Pemberton, a Confederate Colonel wounded in the American Civil War, created Coca-Cola. He registered his French Wine Coca nerve tonic at Eagle Drug and Chemical House on the 8th of May 1886.
The first bottling of Coca-Cola occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Biedenharn Candy Company on the 12th of March 1894. Joseph A. Biedenharn was the proprietor of the bottling works that produced the drink.
Coca-Cola's two key ingredients when launched were cocaine derived from coca leaves and caffeine from kola nuts. The formula included five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup approximately 37 g/L before fresh leaves were removed in 1903.
Investors led by Ernest Woodruff's Trust Company bought Coca-Cola Co. for $25 million on the 12th of September 1919. This transaction marked a major shift in ownership following Asa Griggs Candler's earlier acquisition efforts.
Coca-Cola has been officially available in every country except Cuba and North Korea since announcing its intention to begin distribution in Myanmar in June 2012. Operations suspended in Russia after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine but remain absent from those specific nations.