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A Chronology of Bastiat’s Life and Work
| 1801 | Born in Bayonne, 30 June. |
| Grandfather establishes a trading business with his son Pierre and nephew Henri Monclar. | |
| 1808 | Death of mother, 27 May. |
| Trading business in Spain suffers difficulties. | |
| Moves to Mugron with father, grandfather, and Aunt Justine. | |
| 1810 | Death of father, 1 July. |
| Closing of the Bastiat-Monclar trading business. | |
| 1812 | Attends school run by the Abbot Meilhan in Bayonne. |
| 1813 | Attends College of Saint-Sever for one year. |
| 1814–18 | Attends school at Sorèze. Does not graduate. Forms a close friendship with Victor Calmètes. |
| 1819–25 | Works in Bayonne for his Uncle Monclar and assists his grandfather in running a farm at Souprosse in the Landes (estate called “Sengresse”). |
| Joins a Masonic lodge, La Zélée. Becomes a garde des sceaux in 1822 and an orateur in 1823. | |
| Participates in a demonstration of young liberals in support of Jacques Laffite, September 1824. | |
| Gives lectures on literary, religious, philosophical, and economic topics. | |
| 1825–30 | Death of grandfather, 13 August. Inherits part of his estate. |
| Attempts unsuccessfully to modernize the practices of his tenants on his estate. | |
| Expresses a desire to write on the protectionist system in France. | |
| 1830 | Participates in protests in Bayonne in favor of the new regime (the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe), 3–5 August. |
| Visits Bayonne garrison and successfully persuades the officers to support the revolution, 5 August. | |
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| 1831 | Marries Marie Clotilde Hiart, 7 February. Separates soon after; uses her dowry to expand his estate. |
| Appointed justice of the peace in the canton of Mugron, 28 May. | |
| Unsuccessfully stands for election to the legislature of the arrondissement of Dax, 6 July. | |
| 1832 | Unsuccessfully stands for election to the legislature in the arrondissement of Saint-Sever, 11 July. |
| 1833 | Elected to the General Council of the Landes, 17 November. |
| 1837 | Publishes five articles on a proposed canal next to the Ardour River. |
| 1838 | Publishes two articles on the Basque language. |
| 1839 | Reelected to the General Council of the Landes, 24 November. |
| 1840 | Travels to Spain and Portugal to explore setting up an insurance business. |
| 1841 | Has plans to create an “Association for the Defense of Viticultural Interests” and a journal to be called Le Midi (these do not come to fruition). |
| 1842 | Unsuccessfully stands for election to the legislature in the arrondissement of Saint-Sever, 9 July. |
| 1843 | Writes “Mémoire on the Viticulture Question,” 22 January. |
| Plans to create a school for sharecroppers. | |
| Publishes three articles on “Free Trade. State of the Question in England” in La Sentinelle des Pyrénées, May / June. | |
| 1844 | Publishes his first major essay in the JDE: “On the Influence of French and English Tariffs on the Future of the Two Peoples,” October. |
| Begins corresponding with Richard Cobden, 24 November. Tells him he would like to start his own free-trade association in France. | |
| 1845 | A dinner held in his honor by the Political Economy Society to welcome him to Paris, May. |
| Travels to London, where he is met with enthusiasm by members of the Anti–Corn Law League, July. | |
| Publishes his first books: Cobden and the League (July 1845) and Economic Sophisms (First Series), November. | |
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| Supports de Larnac, the center-left candidate to the local legislature, August–September. | |
| Joins the Society for Political Economy and begins attending their monthly meetings when in Paris. | |
| Offered editorship of JDE but turns it down. | |
| 1846 | Elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 24 January. |
| Cofounder of the Free Trade Association in Bordeaux, 23 February. | |
| 10 May, National Association for Free Trade is formed in Paris, and Bastiat is made the secretary of the Advisory Board. Other Associations are established in Marseilles, Lyon, and Le Havre. | |
| Dinner in Paris to celebrate political victory of Cobden and the Anti–Corn Law League, 18 August. | |
| Speaks at free-trade meetings in Bordeaux (23 February) and Paris (29 September). | |
| Appearance of first issue of the weekly journal Le Libre-échange, 29 November. | |
| Resigns his position as justice of the peace in Mugron, 30 November. | |
| Debates with Lamartine and the editors of L’Atelier and Le Moniteur industriel. | |
| Publishes many articles on free trade in a number of journals. | |
| 1847 | Chamber considers bill to liberalize tariffs and sends it to a committee dominated by protectionists, March to July. |
| Begins lecturing on political economy at the School of Law in Paris, 3 July. | |
| Debates throughout the year with protectionists. | |
| 1848 | Publication of Economic Sophisms (Second Series), 5 January. |
| Gives up the editorship of Le Libre-échange for reasons of health, 13 February. | |
| Witnesses rioting in the streets of Paris and the killing of protesters by the army, 23–25 February. | |
| Publication of La République française, 26 February. | |
| Elected deputy in the Constituent Assembly representing the département of the Landes, 23 April. Appointed vice president of the Finance Committee. | |
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| Nominated to the Chamber’s commission of inquiry into labor, May. | |
| Speech in the Chamber on free trade and against subsidies to the textile industry, 9 June. | |
| Publication of Jacques Bonhomme, 11 June. | |
| “June Days” uprising sparked by the closure of the National Workshops, 23–26 June. | |
| Votes against trying socialist Louis Blanc for his role in the “June Days” uprising, 26 August. | |
| Gives a speech in the Chamber in favor of postal reform, 24 August. | |
| Visits Cobden in England to talk about disarmament, September. | |
| Reelected to General Council of the Landes, September. | |
| Votes for new constitution and supports General Cavaignac for president, 4 November. | |
| 1849 | Invited to banquet in Manchester to celebrate the final repeal of the Corn Laws but declines because of poor health and parliamentary duties, 9 January. |
| Gives a speech in the Chamber on free trade and ending restriction on the importation of salt, 11 January. | |
| Gives a speech in the Chamber in support of legislation to prevent civil servants sitting as deputies in the Chamber, 10 March. | |
| Supports motion opposing expedition of French troops to Rome. | |
| Elected deputy in the Legislative Assembly representing the Landes on the “Social Democratic” list, 13 May. | |
| Attends Peace Congress in Paris presided over by Victor Hugo and gives a speech on “Disarmament and Taxes,” 22–24 August. | |
| Debate with Proudhon on credit and interest in La Voix du peuple, 22 October. | |
| Attends a Friends of Peace meeting in Bradford, England, 30 October. | |
| Gives speech in the Chamber supporting freedom to form trade unions and other associations, 17 November. | |
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| Gives speech in the Chamber on free trade and the tax on alcohol, 12 December. | |
| 1850 | Organizes campaign against the Falloux Law on education, 6 February. |
| Last participation in Chamber of Deputies, 9 February. | |
| Death of wife, 10 February. | |
| Publication of the first (incomplete) part of Economic Harmonies, 1 February. | |
| Completes debate with Proudhon, which is published as Free Credit, 7 March. | |
| Returns to Mugron for rest, May. | |
| Publication of “The Law,” June. | |
| Publication of WSWNS, July. | |
| Attends a last meeting of the Political Economy Society to say farewell to his colleagues, 10 September. Departs for Rome. | |
| Dies in Rome, 24 December. |
A list of the works of Bastiat is available on the Online Library of Liberty website, http://oll.libertyfund.org/people/25. It is kept up to date as each volume is published.
