Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Opinions.

Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.

John Wesley has his conversion experience.

David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

David Hartley, Observations on Man

Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful.

Adam Smith, The Theory of the Moral Sentiments.
Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels.

Thomas Reid, Inquiry into the Human Mind.

Wesley breaks with the Church of England.

Thomas Reid, Philosophy of the Intellectual Powers.

Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

Archibald Alison, The Nature and Principles of Taste.

Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (volume I).

Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy.

William Paley, Evidences of Christianity.

Paley, Natural Theology.

Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (volume II).

Auguste Comte, Systéme de politique positive.

Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (volume III).

Catholic Emancipation Act restores civil liberties to Roman Catholics.

Comte, Cours de philosophie positive.

John Keble's sermon "National Apostasy" (full text)begins Tractarian movement; first of the Tracts for the Times appears.

John Henry Newman, Tract Ninety.

Conversion of John Henry Newman to Roman Catholicism.

Pope Pius IX restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in U. K.

Comte, Système de politique positive.

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species.

Essays and Reviews.

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism.

Bishop John William Colenso, The Pentateuch Critically Examined.

Newman, Apologia pro vita sua.

Vatican Council declares the Pope infallible in matters of faith.

Darwin, The Descent of Man.