Adam Smith Born in Kirkcaldy
June 16, 1723
A customs official's posthumous son was born in a little Fife port across the Firth from Edinburgh. He would become, fifty-three years later, the first great theorist of the invisible hand, the division of labor, and the wealth of nations. His childhood, his friends said, was spent mostly inside books.
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Also in 1723 (2 other events on record)
- Bach Appointed Cantor at Leipzig · Europe · Culture
- Death of the Regent Philippe of Orleans · Europe · Politics
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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