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 |
| ″ ″ Edinburgh. | |
| 1848-1854. | ″ ″ 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 Carlow. |
| 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 alleging Zeitung. |
| 1872. | Honorary degree at Munich. |
| 1874. | Letters to The Times on “The Vatican Decrees.” |
| 1888. | Honorary degree at Cambridge. |
| 1889. | ″ ″ 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. |