1690 1700 1710 1720 1730 1740 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1688 Glorious Revolution 1694 - 1746 Francis Hutcheson 1696 - 1782 Henry Home, Lord Kames 1707 Acts of Union 1711 - 1776 David Hume 1723 - 1790 Adam Smith 1723 - 1816 Adam Ferguson 1735 - 1801 John Millar 1742 Hutcheson's On the Nature and Conduct of the Passions 1745 Jacobite Uprising 1754 Hume's Essays Moral, Political, Literary 1759 Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments 1762 Kames' Elements of Criticism 1765 - 1832 Sir James Mackintosh 1767 Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society 1771 Millar's Origin of the Distinction of Ranks 1775 - 1783 American Revolution 1776 Smith's Wealth of Nations 1789 - 1815 French Revolution 1791 Mackintosh's Vindiciae Gallicae