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Edward Gibbon

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Noun1.Edward Gibbon - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)Edward Gibbon - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)


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1737: Edward Gibbon, English historian who wrote The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, was born in London.
Matthew Edward Gibbons, aged 35, of Lower Ford Street, Hillfields, Coventry, two counts of drunk and disorderly behaviour in a public place, fined pounds 60.
The great English historian Edward Gibbon rightly blames the Church for the fall of the Roman Empire and the onset of the Dark Ages and ponders what might have happened had it survived.
 
 
 
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