Edward Gibbon
1737–1794 · Person
English historian; The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; defining work of 18th-century historiography.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, United Kingdom (combined), People, England
Around 1737
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- American Revolution (1775)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)