A chronology of events in the life of Cardinal John Henry Newman
Year | Age | Event |
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1801 | Cardinal Newman born February 21 Literary Context 1801 β Tennyson b. Historical Context 1801 β Suppression of Irish Parliament; Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland 1803 β Napoleonic Wars begin |
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1808 | 7 | Goes to Ealing School Literary Context 1814 β Wordsworth:The Excursion; Bryon: The Corsair; Scott: Waverley 1815 β Coleridge: Kubla Khan published Historial Context 1815 β Battle of Waterloo; Corn Law; Congress of Vienna restores Papal States |
1816 | 15 | Converted to Evangelical Christianity |
1817 | 16 | Becomes an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford Literary Context 1818 β Byron: Don Juan |
1820 | 19 | Achieves a B.A. Degree Literary Context 1820 β Scott: Ivanhoe; Keats: Ode to a Nightingale 1821 β Keats d.: James Mill: Elements of Political Economy Historical Context 1820 β Accession of George IV; Cato St conspiracy |
1822 | 21 | Elected to the Oriel fellowship Literary Context 1822 β Shelley d. |
1825 | 24 | Becomes vice-principal of Alban Hall; takes Holy Orders |
1826 | 25 | Becomes tutor at Oriel Literary Context 1827 β Keble: The Christian Year; William Blake d. |
1828 | 27 | Meets Hurrell Froude; becomes Vicar of St Maryβs Historical Context 1829 β Catholic Emancipation |
1830 | 29 | Newman and Froude deprived of Oriel tutorships Literary Context 1830 β Hazlitt d.; Cobbett: Rural Rides Historical Context 1830 β July Revolution; Accession of William IV |
1832 | 31 | Tour of Southern Europe Literary Context 1833 β Walter Scott d. Historical Context 1832 β Reform Act |
1833 | 32 | Returns to England; Arians of the Fourth Century; Tracts for the Times begins Literary Context 1833 β Carlyle: Sartor Resartus Historical Context 1833 β Keble Assize sermon; Factory Act |
1834 | 33 | Parochial and Plain sermons (1834-42) Historical Context 1834 β New Poor Law; Parliament burns down |
1837 | 36 | Prophetical Office of the Church Literary Context 1837 β Hurrell Froude: Literary Remains Historical Context 1837 β Accession of Queen Victoria |
1838 | 37 | Appointed editor of The British Critic; Lectures on Justification Literary Context 1839 β Darwin: Voyage of the Beagle Historical Context 1838 β Rise of Chartism 1839 β Bedchamber plot; Birmingham riots; Penny postage Act |
1841 | 40 | Tract xc; condemned by University authorities Historical Context 1841 β Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister |
1842 | 41 | Newman withdraws to Littlemore Historical Context 1842 β Chartist riots; Lord Ashleyβs Act protecting women and children in mines |
1843 | 42 | Retracts anti-Roman statements; resigns from St Maryβs; Oxford University Sermons Literary Context 1843 β Carlyle: Past and Present; J.S. Mill: System of Logic 1844 β Disraeli: Coningsby |
1845 | 44 | Received into the Catholic Church; Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine Historical Context 1845 β Maynooth grant |
1846 | 45 | Leaves Oxford Literary Context 1846 β Edward Lear: Book of Nonsense Historical Context 1846 β Repeal of Corn Laws, Election of Pius IX |
1847 | 46 | Created D.D. and Ordained Priest, in Rome Literary Context 1847 β Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Thackeray: Vanity Fair; Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights |
1848 | 47 | Founds Birmingham Oratory; Loss and Gain Literary Context 1848 β Dickens: Dombey and Son; Kingsley: Yeast; Mrs Gaskell: Mary Barton Historical Context 1848 β Gorham judgement; European revolutions |
1850 | 49 | Difficulties of Anglicans 1851 50 Present Position of Catholics; Rector of Catholic University of Ireland Literary Context 1850 β Dickens: David Copperfield; Tennyson: In Memoriam 1851 β Ruskin: Stones of Venice Historical Context 1850 β Restoration of Catholic Hierarchy in England causes anti-Catholic sentiment 1851 β Ecclesiastical titles Act forbidding Catholic use of names of existing dioceses |
1852 | 51 | First Part of Idea of a University Newman spends some weeks recuperating at Abbotsford, Robert Hope-Scottβs home in the Scottish Borders |
1853 | 52 | Unjustly found guilty of libelling Giacinto Achilli Literary Context 1853 β Matthew Arnold: The Scholar Gipsy 1854 β Dickens: Hard Times 1855 β Trollope: The Warden Historical Context 1853 β Crimean War begins (ends β56) 1855 β Daily Telegraph founded |
1856 | 55 | Calista |
1857 | 56 | Invited by Wiseman to undertake new Bible translation Literary Context 1857 β George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life Historical Context 1857 β Indian Mutiny |
1858 | 57 | Translation project fails for lack of support. Final return from Ireland Historical Context 1858 β India transferred to Crown; Jews admitted to Parliament |
1859 | 58 | βConsulting the faithful on matters of doctrineβ; accusations of unorthodoxy Literary Context 1859 β Darwin: Origin of species; J.S.Mill: On Liberty 1860 β Wilkie Collins: Woman in White; Dickens: Great Expectations; Ruskin: Unto this last Essays and Reviews 1863 β Kingsley: Water Babies Historical Context 1860 β Unification of Italy; loss of most Papal States; discovery of the source of the Nile |
1864 | 63 | Apologia pro Vita Sua Literary Context 1864 β Tolstoi: War and Peace; Trollope: Small House at Allington Historical Context 1864 β Pius IX: Syllabus of Errors |
1865 | 64 | Dreams of Gerontius Literary Context 1864 β Tolstoi: War and Peace; Trollope: Small House at Allington 1865 β Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland; Rudyard Kipling b.; W.B. Yeats b. 1866 β Kingsley: Hereward the Wake; Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment 1867 β Marx: Das Kapital, Vol 1 1869 β Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy; J.S. Mill: On the Subjection of Women Historical Context 1864 β Pius IX: Syllabus of Errors 1865 β Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1866 β Treaty of Vienna; invention of Dynamite 1867 β Marx: Das Kapital, Vol 1 1869 β Foundation of Girton College, Cambridge; Abolition of debtors prisons |
1870 | 69 | Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent Literary Context 1870 β Death of Charles Dickens; Disraeli: Lothair 1874 β G.K. Chesteron b. Historical Context 1870 β Vatican Council, Pius IX βPrisoner of the Vaticanβ, Franco-Prussian War |
1872 | 71 | Summer 1872: Newman at Abbotsford, his influence leading to many conversions and the construction of new churches |
1875 | 74 | Letter to the Duke of Norfolk Literary Context 1875 β Kingsley d. Historical Context 1875 β Purchase of Suez Canal |
1877 | 76 | Age 76 β Elected to honorary fellowship of Trinity College, Oxford Literary Context 1877 β Henry James: The American 1878 β Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native Historical Context 1878 β Election of Leo XIII |
1879 | 78 | Age 78 β Receives Cardinalβs Hat from Pope Leo XIII Literary Context 1879 β Ibsen: A Dollβs House 1880 β George Eliot d.; Lytton Strachey b. 1881 β Thomas Carlyle d. Historical Context 1879 β Trotsky and Stalin b.; British Zulu War |
1890 | 89 | Dies in Birmingham, August 11 Literary Context 1890 β Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Historical Context 1890 β Charles De Gaulle b.; First Electric power station; Forth Bridge opened |