| Timeline of Modern Anarchism |
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| 1756 | First anarchist essay. General critique of statism. |
Edmund Burke | A Vindication of Natural Society |
| 1793 | First anarchist treatise. First positive theory. |
William Godwin | An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice |
| 1840 | First self-described anarchist. | Pierre Proudhon | What is Property? |
| 1844 | First egoist anarchist. | Max Stirner | The Ego and Its Own |
| 1849 | First anarcho-capitalist. | Gustave de Molinari | The Production of Security |
| 1863 | First individualist anarchist. | Josiah Warren | True Civilization |
| 1866 | First anarcho-socialist. | Michael Bakunin | Revolutionary Catechism |
| 1882 | Individualist anarchist theorist. | Lysander Spooner | Natural Law; or The Science of Justice |
| 1886 | Individualist anarchist publisher. | Benjamin Tucker | State Socialism and Anarchism: How far they agree, & wherein they differ |
| 1902 | First anarcho-communist. | Peter Kropotkin | Mutual Aid |
| 1982 | First modern anarcho-capitalist | Murray Rothbard | The Ethics of Liberty For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto |