Timeline
Events
476 AD
People
Fall of Rome
354-430
St. Augustine
570-632
Prophet Muhammad
480-525
Boethius
711
Moors invade Spain
850
Gunpowder (China)
800-900
900-1300
Books
Economists
padded horse collar, nailed shoe
trip hammer
1066
Battle of Hastings
1085
El Cid Captures Toledo (1105-1130)
1095-1101 First Crusade
1126-1290 Cannon (China)
1200
Fibonacci (Hindu/Arabic numbers)
1170-1250
Fibonacci
1215
Magna Carta
1214-1293
Roger Bacon
1225-1274
Aquinas
1270
Eighth Crusade, use of "needle" in
navigation
1285-1347
Ockham
1326
Cannon used by Arabs in Spain
1325-1382
Nicole Oresme
1235, 1285 First enclosures
126673
Summa Theologica (Aquinas)
1360
Tractus (Oresme, econ
theory)
1342-1361 "Black Death"
1348
plague reached Britain
1348
h20 power for bellows (iron)
1394-1460
Prince Henry (Navigator)
1395
double entry bookkeeping
1452-1518
Da Vinci
(Ital)
1439
Moveable type
1469-1527
Machiavelli
1516
Utopia (Thomas More)
1453
fall of Constantinople
1473-1543
Copernicus
1526
Monetae Cudendae
1456
Gutenburg Bible
1483-1546
Luther
1517
95 Theses
1492
Columbus Voyage
1492
Jews Expelled from Spain
1509-1564
Calvin
1588
Lezione delle monete
1492
Granada falls
1519-1579
Gresham
1498
da Gama (sail to India around Cape Good
Hope)
(Moors driven out)
1519-1522 Magellan's Expedition
1549
Kett's Rebellion
1588
Spanish Armada
(enclosure prot)
1601
East India Trading Co created
1628
Flow of Blood (Harvey)
1641
Pendulum added to clock
1642
English Civil War
1649-1660 Cromwell's power
1571-1630
Kepler
1571-1641
Thomas Mun
1588-1679
Hobbes
1580-1650
Antonio Serra
1596-1650
Descartes
1586-1641
Gerard de Malynes
1599-1658
Cromwell
1619-1683
Jean Baptiste Colbert
1632-1704
Locke
1642-1727
Plague
1646-1716)
1665-66
1715
1718
Jean Bodin
Galileo
Restoration of Charles
1698
Bernardo Davanzanti
1530-1596
Francis Bacon
1660
Great Fire
1529-1606
1564-1642
Royal Society of London
1666
The Prince (1505)
1561-1626
1660
1665-66
1515
1620
1637
Novum Organum (Bacon)
Discourse on
Method (Descartes)
1665
"Micrographia" (Hooke)
1623-1687
William Petty
1668
Trade and Interest (Child)
1630=1699
Josiah Child
Newton
1687
"Principia" (Newton)
1646-1714
Boisguillebert
Leibniz
1675
Foundation of the calculus
1680-1734 (?)
Cantillon
1758
Tableau economique
1694-1774
Quesnay
1712-1759
Gournay
1714-1780
Etienne de Condillac
Mirabeau
1694-1746
Francis Hutchenson
1694-1778
Voltaire
Savery Steam Patent
Plague
Harrison Clock, 1735, 1765
1760
La Theorie de l'impot
1715-1789
1706-1790
Franklin
1769
Reflexions (Turgot)
1727-1781
Turgot
First Bank Notes in England
1711-1776
David Hume
1767
L'ordre Naturel (Riviere)
1720-1793
Riviere
1720
Bubble Act (Engl. Prohibit joint stock firms
1728-1779
James Cook
1768
La Physioratie (Dupont)
1739-1817
Dupont de Neumours
1731
quadrant for use at sea (John Hadley)
1711-1776
David Hume
1752
Political Discourses
1713-1769
Antonio Genovesi
1733
Flying Shuttle (John Kay patent)
1743-1826
Jefferson
1728-1797
Pietro Verri
1760
Beginning of Enclosure Acts
1743-94
Condorcet
1728-1787
Ferdinando Galiani
1740
Crucible for steel (Huntsman)
1760
Wedgwood Pottery founded
1770
Botany Bay Australia
1769
Watt's Condenser Pattented (1764 invent)
1771
Arkwright's spinning mill
1776
American Revolution
1774
Wilkinsons boring machine
1782
Watt's rotary steam
1789
French Revolution/ US Constitution
1784
Cort's "puddling" process (iron)
1790
First US patent law
1790
Lavoisier's 31 chemical elements
1793
Whitney's Cotton gin
1794
first telegraph (France)
1795
Bread riots in Paris
1798
Whitney' s Muskets, Hall, North
1800
Trevithick's high pressure steam engine
1801
General Enclosure Act (Brit)
1802
Term "biology" is coined
1803
Louisiana Purchase
(steam cylinders)
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
1807
Fulton's Paddle Steamer
1813
Lowell textile factory (Boston)
1815
Waterloo, first steam warship
1743-1794
1756-1836
Antoine Lavoisier
William Godwin
1738-1794
Cesare Beccaria
1723-1790
Adam Smith
Intro to Principles of Morals
and Legislation
1748-1832
Bentham
1801
Tableau de l'agriculture
1773-1842
de Sismondi
1766-1834
Malthus
1759
Theory of Moral
Sentiments (Smith)
1776
Wealth of Nations (Smith)
1789
1760-1825
de St. Simon
1825
Le Nouveau christianisme
1771-1858
Robert Owen
1816
New View of Society
1772-1837
Charles Fourier
1798
Essay on Popultation
1820
Principles of Political
Economy
Corp is a contract that cannot be revoked by legislature.
1819
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
1820
Faraday and electro mechanical rotation
1824
Portland cement, Erie Canal finished
1817
1824
Combinations Law repealed (Eng. Unions)
1821
Elements of Political Economy 1773-1836
James Mill
first steam rail in US for freight
1828
Cours complt d'economie
politique (Say)
JB Say
1832
Word "socialism" is used
1836
Outline of the Science of Pol
1790-1864
Econ (Senior)
Nassau William Senior
1833
Trevithick passenger vehicle
1834
Charles Babbage analytical engine
1834
McCormick reaper
1834
"Workhouse" in UK for Poor Law
1836
Alamo
1809-1865
Pierre Joseph
Proudhon
1840
What is Property?
(Proudhon)
1801-1850
Frederic Bastiat
1837
Morse telegraph
1809-1882
Charles Darwin
1848
Principles of Political
Economy (JS Mill)
1806-1873
J.S. Mill
1844
Wood Pulp paper
1818-1876
Mikhail Bakunin
1844
Economic & Philosophic Manu 1818-1883
Mexican War
1859
Grundriss (Marx)
1846
Howe's Sewing machine, Deere's modlboard
1867
das Kapital (vol 1, Marx)
1851
Singer's continuous stitch sewing
1885
das Kapital (vol 2)
1859
Drake's oil well
1894
das Kapital (vol 3)
1859
Origin of the Species
(Darwin)
1828,29
1846-47
1861-1864 US Civil War
Principles of Political
Economy and Taxation
1772-1823
1767-1832
Ricardo
Marx
1820-1895
Friedrich Engels
1812-1878
Bruno Hidebrand
1861
Pasteur's germ theory of fermentation,
1865
1817-1896
Wihelm Roscher
1862
Gatling gun (10 barrels)
1821-1898
Karl Knies
1868
14th Ammendment
1869
Promontory Summit, Utah railroad joined
1876
Otto engine (4 stroke)
1886
Santa Clara Co. v. Southern Pacific
Railroad
1892
Maybach's carburetor
Corporations become "Persons"
1842-1921
1856-1915
1890
Peter Kropotkin
F.W. Taylor
(Principles of
Scientific
Management)
Sherman Antitrust Act
190004
Grundriss der allgemeinen
Volkswirtschaftslehre
1838-1917
Gustav Schmoller
(Younger School)
1831
Essay on Distribution of
Wealth (Jones)
1790-1855
Richard Jones
1870
Land Systems and Industrial
1827-1882
Econ (Leslie)
Thomas E.C. Leslie
1888
Econ Interpretation of
History (Rogers)
1823-1890
J.E.Thorold Rogers
1884
Lect on Indy Revolution
1852-1883
Arnold Toynbee
1902
Mutual Aid (Kropotkin)
1854
Devel. Of Laws of Human
Intercourse and Resulting
Rules (Gossen)
1810-1858
Heinrich Gossen
182663
Der Isolierte Staat (von
Thunen) 3 volumes
1817-1850
1871
Theory of Political Economy ( 1835-1882
W.S. Jevons
1883
Princ of Political
Economy (Sidgwick)
1838-1900
Henry Sidgwick
1881
Mathematical Psychics
(Edgeworth)
1845-1926
F.Y. Edgeworth
1890
Principles of Economics
(Marshall)
1842-1924
Alfred Marshall
1850
article on Public Works
(Minard)
1781-1870
Joseph Minard
1830
1837-
econ valuation of pub works
1785-1836
(Navier)
meaurement of utility, price
1804-1866
discrim, monopoly
Johann von Thunen
Henri Navier
Jules Dupuit
1838
Mathematical Principles of
the Theory of Wealth
1801-1877
Agustine Cournot
1874
Elements of Pure Econ
1834-1910
Leon Walras
Manual of Political
Economics (Pareto)
1848-1923
Vilfredo Pareto
Constitution to invalidate gov't reg of
1906
corporation
1905
Lochner v. New York
1908
Model T Ford Introduced
1871
Principles of Economics
1840-1921
Carl Menger
1911
Standard Oil Case
1899
Distribution of Wealth
1847-1938
1899
Capital and Interest
1851-1914
1914-1918 WWI
1914
Clayton Antitrust Act
1914
Social Economics (Wieser)
1851-1926
J.B. Clark
Eugen von BohmBawek
Friedrich Wieser
1889
Intro to Political Econ
1854-1963
R.T. Ely
1899
Theory of the Leisure Class
1857-1929
Thorstein Veblen
Ludwig von Mises
1899-1992
Friedrich Hayek
1883-1946
John Maynard Keynes
1929
Stock Market Crash
1933
Epistemological Problems of
1881-1973
Econ (Mises)
1936
Robinson-Patman Act
1948
Individualism and Economic
Order
1929-WWII Great Depression
1936
NewPaper Corp has free speech and can sell advertising without being taxed
1936
1925
1933
1933
1941
US enters WWII
General Theory of
Employment, Interest and
Money
Social Control of Business
Theory of Monopolistic
Comp
Economics of Imperfect
Competition
1884-1963
J.M. Clark
1899-1967
E.H. Chamberlin
1903-1983
Joan Robinson
1942
Theory of Price
1911-1991
George Stigler
1953
Essays in Positive Econmics
1912-
Milton Friedman