Key Publication Timeline
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Date Francis Hutcheson George Turnbull Thomas Reid David Hume Adam Smith Adam Ferguson
1694 Birth at Drumalig, County Down, Ireland          
1698   Birth at Alloa, Scotland        
1710 Began education at the University of Glasgow   Birth at Strachan, Scotland      
1711   Began education at the University of Edinburgh   Birth at Edinburgh   
1717 Received Divinity degree at the University of Glasgow Entered divinty school at the University of Edinburgh        
1721 Conducted private academy at Dublin Teaching at Marsichal College, Aberdeen        
1722     Began education at the University of Edinburgh    
1723    On the Association of Natural Science with Moral Philosophy, The Religion of the State Began education at Marsichal College, Aberdeen   Birth at Kirkcaldy, Scotland Birth at Logierait, Scotland
1725 Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design, Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil          
1726   Of the Most beautiful Structure of the Material and the Rational World  Recieved MA      
1728 Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, Illustrations upon the Moral Sense  


     
1730 Appointed professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, The Natural Sociability of Mankind          
1733   Bachelor of Civil Law, Exeter College, Oxford          
1737         Began education at the University of Glasgow  
1739   Ordained as Anglican priest   A Treatise of Human Nature    
1740   A Treatise on Ancient Painting, Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy     Studying at Oxford  
1741       Essays Moral, Political, and Literary Began education at the University of St. Andrews
1742 A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy Observations upon Liberal Education     Continues education at University of Edinburgh
1745       Ordained as Presbyterian minister
1746 Death at Dublin, Ireland      
1748   Death at The Hague, Netherlands   An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.    
1751       An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals    
1752     Professor at King's College, Aberdeen Political Discourses Appointed professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow  
1754       History of England   Appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh
1755 A System of Moral Philosophy (posthum.)          
1759         Theory of Moral Sentiments  
1764     An Inquiry Into the Human Mind Appointed professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow   Appointed professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh
1766         Analysis of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy
1767         Essay on the History of Civil Society
1776     Death at Edinburgh Wealth of Nations
1777         Institutes of Moral Philosophy
1781          
1783           History of the Roman Republic
1785     Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man    
1788     Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind    
1790         Death at Edinburgh  
1792           Principles of Moral and Political Science
1796     Death at Glasgow      
1836           Death at St. Andrews