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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