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1737 CE - 1794 CE: Life of the English historian Edward Gibbon.
1737 CE: Edward Gibbon is born in Putney, Surrey, England.
1761 CE: Edward Gibbon publishes his Essay on the Study of Literature.
1770 CE: Edward Gibbon publishes his Critical observations on the sixth book of the Aeneid.
1776 CE - 1788 CE: Edward Gibbon publishes his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1794 CE: Edward Gibbon dies in London.