Liberty Fund is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its Founding
(1960-2010)

The following institutions, books and authors should be remembered this year for having reached a significant milestone. [More on the terminology used.]

Liberty Fund celebrates the semicentennial of its founding in 1960. [See a Timeline of the life of its founder Pierre F. Goodrich (1896-1973); a Timeline of the history of Liberty Fund. ]

Anniversaries of the publication of important books [More about finding Books]:

• the bimillennial of the appearance of the Roman historian Livy's History of Rome (10)
• the 1,850th anniversary of the appearance of the Roman jurist Gaius' Institutes of the Laws (160)
• the semiseptcentennial of the publication of the English poet and revolutionary politician John Milton's The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660)
• the tricentennial of the publication of the English essayist Joseph Addison's play Cato: A Tragedy (1710)
• the sesquicentenial of the publication of the American legal theorist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)
• the centennial of the publication of the English historian Lord Acton's Lectures on the French Revolution (1910), the English economist Philip Wicksteed's Common Sense of Political Economy (1910), and the French economist Yves Guyot's Socialistic Fallacies (1910)
• the semicentennial of the publication of the American economist William Grampp's The Manchester School of Economics (1960) and the American Austrian economist Israel Kirzner's The Economic Point of View (1960)

Anniversaries of the births and deaths of important people [More about finding People]:

• the semiseptcentennial of the birth of the English philosopher William Wollaston (1660-1724)
• the tricentennial of the birth of the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid (1710-1796)
• the semiquincentennial of the births of the English anti-slavery agitator Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) and the English economist Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
• the centennial of the birth of the economist Ronald Coase (1910-) and the death of the American sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)