Encyclopaedia Britannica first published
1768 · Event
Three Edinburgh tradesmen launch a 'Dictionary of Arts and Sciences' in weekly numbers — the Britannica, child of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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)
- Scottish Enlightenment (1730)
- Kenneth MacAlpin unites Picts and Scots (843)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
- William Wallace (1270)
Around 1768
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)