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
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)