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Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)

8 dated entries naming Adam Smith, drawn from 8 separate years between 1723 CE and 1790 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1723June 16 – (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (d. 1790)source
  • 1740July 7 – Adam Smith sets out from Scotland to take up a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford.source
  • 1748Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.source
  • 1751Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic.source
  • 1752April 22 – Adam Smith, appointed the year before as a professor of logic, is unanimously elected by the faculty of the University of Glasgow to be the new Professor of Moral Philosophy "on the express condition that he would content himself with the emoluments of the Logic Professorship until 10 October", in that the 1751-1752 salary budgeted for the job has already been distributed to faculty members who had substituted for the previous moral philosophy professor, Thomas Craigie; from April to October, Smith's remuneration for teaching moral philosophy is limited to fees paid directly to him by his students (a half guinea per semester for the public class, and a guinea per semester for the private class). Smith's lectures on ethics are first published in 1759 in his work The Theory of Moral Sentiments.source
  • 1759Adam Smith publishes his Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures.source
  • 1776March 9 – Scottish economist Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations in London.source
  • 1790July 17 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist, philosopher (b. 1723)source

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