1.born in 1723, Kirkcaldy,outside of edinburgh
2.1737,glasgow
3.1740 oxford
4.1751 become professor of logic and later of Moral Philosophy in glasgow
5.1759, publishes The Theory of Moral Sentiments
6.1764-67,travel to france,
7.return to glasgow
8.publishes the wealth of nations
9.1790.died