Major Works of the Enlightenment
1. 1751
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
2. 1755
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
3. 1762
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
4. 1764
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
5. 1770
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
6. 1776
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
7. 1781
-------- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Émile Beginning of publication of the French Encyclopedia David Hume, The Natural History of Religion Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of European Colonies and Commerce in the Two Indies Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason