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Chronology: the Life of Lord Acton |
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Source: From Acton's The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).
CHRONICLE
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, born at Naples, 10th January 1834, son of Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton and Marie de Dalberg, afterwards Countess Granville.
| French school near Paris. |
| 1843–1848. |
Student at Oscott. |
| Student at Edinburgh. |
| 1848–1854. |
Student at Munich University, living with Döllinger. |
| 1855. |
Visits America in company with Lord Ellesmere. |
| 1858–1862. |
Becomes editor of The Rambler. |
| 1859–1865. |
M.P. for Cavan. |
| 1862–1864. |
Founds, edits, and concludes The Home and Foreign Review. |
| 1864. |
Pius IX. issued Quanta Cura, with appended Syllabus Errorum. |
| 1865–1866. |
M.P. for Bridgnorth |
| 1865. |
Marries Countess Marie Arco-Valley. |
| 1867–1868. |
Writes for The Chronicle. |
| 1869. |
Created Baron Acton. |
| 1869–1871. |
Writes for North British Review. |
| 1869–1870. |
Vatican Council. Acton at Rome. Writes “Letters of Quirinus” in Allgemeine Zeitung. |
| 1872. |
Honorary degree at Munich. |
| 1874. |
Letters to The Times on “The Vatican Decrees.” |
| 1888. |
Honorary degree at Cambridge. |
| 1889. |
Honorary degree at Oxford. |
| 1890. |
Honorary Fellow of All Souls’. |
| 1892–1895. |
Lord-in-Waiting. |
| 1895–1902. |
Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. |
| 19th June 1902. |
Died at Tegernsee. |
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