Adam Smith...

Adam Smith - Subject discipline of economics - 'The wealth of nations'
1564 - 1569 - Sir John Hawkins, the first English slave trader (2000 in the W. Indies by 1600)
1620 - The Mayflower - American Colonies/Stuarts
1641 - 1651 - The English Civil War - Cromwell's massacres in Ireland.
1651 - The Navigation Acts (war with the Dutch merchants) Lasts almmost 100 years
1660 - Restoration of the Stuart monarchy/Charles the 2nd/Restoration Literature
1667 - John Locke - Essay on Human Understanding - No rights just men
1688 - The Glorious Revolution/Act of Settlement/William of Orange
1690 - Battle of the Boyne (James the 2nd attempted Jacobite restoration defeated in Ulster)
1698 - Royal Africa Company charted
1770 - Isaac Newton
1702 - The Daily Courant - Commercial Catholics/ W. Indies investments
1704 - Final collpse of the Darien Scheme
1707 - Act of the Union with Scotland Robert Burns
1709 - The Spectator/The Tatler/Joseph Addison - Whig ascendancy - The Royal Exchange
1700 - Protestant Scots Plantation of Ulster
1719 - Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
1729 - Irish Famine - Swift - A Modest Proposal
1745 - Battle of Culloden
1759 - Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments - Human Behaviour (good and bad) Charity, Ego trip, Variety, Admired, Empiricist, universal scientific laws
1776 - American Revolution
- Adam Smith against rapid population growth
1776 - Adam Smith - A wealth of nations.
-Jacobites - want to bring back the Stuart monastry (catholic)
- Theory of moral sentiments - self regard - greed and wanting to be admired - linking to Machiavelli.
1783 - The Zong Case - English law holds that slaves are not people, but livestock.
1789 - The French Revolution
1815 - Waterloo
1830 - William Cobbett - Rural Rides
1831 - The Baptist War
1832 - Parliamentary Reform Bill (Beginning of democracy)
1833 - Abolishment of slavery in the British Empire
1846 - Repeal of the Corn Laws
1830's - Manchester, Peak of factory system/freetrade/industrial revolution/liberalism

Unemployment is impossible, 'Hidden Hand' is important.
'Government and state do more harm than good...'