| 1834 |
|
Acton born in Naples |
| 1837 |
|
Death of his father, Sir Richard Acton |
| 1840 |
|
Mother remarries Lord Leveson Gower, later second Earl Granville |
| 1843-48 |
|
Acton boarded at Oscott under Wiseman |
| 1850 |
|
To Munich studying under Ignaz von Dollinger |
| 1853 |
|
Journey to USA |
| 1857 |
|
To Rome with Dollinger |
| 1858-62 |
|
Part-owner and contributor to liberal Catholic Rambler |
| 1859-65 |
|
MP for Carlow |
| 1862 |
|
"Nationality" and "The Protestant Theory of Persecution" |
| 1864 |
|
Pius IX's Quanta
Cura and Syllabus
of Errors |
| 1864-68 |
|
Acton's extensive archival researches |
| 1865 |
|
Acton marries Countess Marie von Arco-Valley |
| 1865 |
|
Manning appointed Archbishop of Westminster |
| 1865-66 |
|
MP for Bridgnorth (GH, 93) |
| 1869 |
|
"The Massacre of St. Bartholomew" |
| 1869 |
|
Created Baron Acton by Gladstone |
| 1869-70 |
|
The Vatican
Council |
| 1874-75 |
|
Gladstone publishes three anti-Vatican articles |
| 1874 |
|
Acton responds in four letters to The Times |
| 1875 |
|
Acton fears excommunication. Is spared |
| 1876 |
|
Gladstone launches crusade against Bulgarian atrocities |
| 1877 |
|
"Freedom in Antiquity" and "Freedom in Christianity" |
| 1879-80 |
|
Gladstone's Midlothian campaign |
| 1880-85 |
|
Advisor to Gladstone's second ministry and advocate of Irish
home rule |
| 1889 |
|
Review of James Bryce's American Commonwealth |
| 1892-95 |
|
Lord in Waiting to Queen Victoria |
| 1895 |
|
Appointed Regius
Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. Delivers lectures
on modern history and the French Revolution. Editor of Cambridge
Modern History |
| 1902 |
|
Death at Tegernsee |
| 1904 |
|
Acton-Mary Gladstone correspondence published |
| 1906 |
|
Cardinal Gasquet edits Acton-Simpson correspondence |
| 1931 |
|
Herbert Butterfield's Whig Interpretation of History |
| 1952 |
|
Gertrude Himmelfarb's Lord Acton. First full biography |
Source: Hugh, Tulloch, Acton (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1988),ix.
