Bentham, Jeremy

1748 - He was born on the 15th day of February of this year in Spitalfields, London.

1763 - He obtained his Bachelor's degree this year at the Queen’s College of Oxford.

1766 – He took his Master's degree this year at the Queen’s College of Oxford.

1769 - He trained as a lawyer, though he never practiced was called to the bar.

1792 - He was a violent critic of the revolutionary discourse of natural rights, and of the violence, which arose after the Jacobins took power.

1823 - He co-founded the Westminster Review with John Stuart Mill as a journal for the "Philosophical Radicals", a group of younger disciples through whom Bentham exerted considerable influence in British public life.

1826 - He is frequently associated with the foundation of the University of London, specifically University College London, though in fact he was 78 years old when the university opened.

1829 - He oversaw the appointment of one of his pupils, John Austin, as the first Professor of Jurisprudence.

1832 – He died on the 6th day of June this year.