Scottish Enlightenment
1730–1800 · Event
Edinburgh and Glasgow's age of genius — Hume, Smith, Hutton, Ferguson — a small country thinking the modern world into being.
On these timelines: Scotland, United Kingdom (combined), Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from Scotland
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296)
- Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
- Jacobite risings (1689)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
- William Wallace (1270)
- Lockerbie bombing (1988)
Around 1730
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)