The Enlightenment & New Town · event 5 of 8

1776

Smith and Hume. Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations; David Hume dies in August, cheerfully and without religion, to the city’s considerable discomfort.

The The Enlightenment & New Town era

  1. 1745
  2. 1759
  3. 1767
  4. 1768
  5. 1776
  6. 1785
  7. 1822
  8. 1826

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