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