Eamon Duffy - John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History

1801

February 21, born at Old Broad Street, London, eldest of six children of John Newman ( d . 1824), banker, and of Jemima ( d . 1836), daughter of Henry Fourdrinier, paper maker.

1808

(Until 1816), at Ealing School, a private boarding school.

1816

March. Financial collapse of his fathers bank.

Early August to December 21, serious illness. Evangelical conversion under the influence of classics master, the Rev Walter Meyers.

1817

(Until 1820), enters Trinity College, Oxford.

1818

May. College scholarship

November 4, publishes with J. W. Bowden St Bartholomews Eve , an anti-Catholic narrative poem.

1820

November, breakdown during Schools (finals), gains a fourth in Classics.

1822

April 12, elected to a Fellowship by examination at Oriel College.

1823

April, E. B. Pusey elected Fellow of Oriel.

1824

June 23, Trinity Sunday, Newman ordained deacon, becomes curate of St Clements parish in east Oxford.

September 29, death of John Newman senior.

1825

March, Vice-Principal, St Alban Hall, under Richard Whately.

18246

Articles for Encyclopaedia Metropolitana on Cicero, Apolonius of Tyana, and miracles in the Bible.

1825

Whit Sunday, ordained priest of Church of England.

1826

Publication of Whatelys Elements of Logic (1826), with assistance from Newman. Newman appointed Tutor of Oriel. Hurrell Froude elected Fellow of Oriel.

1826

July 2, first university sermon, The Philosophical Temper first enjoined by the Gospel.

1827

Publication of John Kebles The Christian Year .

November, breakdown from overwork.

1828

January 5, death of Newmans sister Mary.

February, Edward Hawkins elected Provost of Oriel.

March 14, Newman becomes Vicar of University Church (St Mary the Virgin).

Summer, Newman begins systematic reading of the Fathers.

1829

January, Poetry, with reference to Aristotles Poetics, in London Review .

February, Newman joins successful campaign to oust Sir Robert Peel as MP for Oxford, because of his support for Catholic Emancipation.

March, Catholic Emancipation Act: Newman elected Secretary of Oxford branch of the evangelical Church Missionary Society.

1830

February 1, publishes Suggestions on Behalf of the Church Missionary Society .

March 8, deposed as Secretary of Oxford branch of CMS.

June, Newman resigns membership of Bible Society: Provost Hawkins suspends supply of pupils to Newman.

1831

Commissioned by Hugh James Rose to write a History of the General Councils.

1832

December 8, commences Mediterranean tour with Archdeacon and Hurrell Froude.

1833

March, visits Nicholas Wiseman at Venerable English College in Rome.

April, Sicily, Newman contracts typhoid.

June, composes Lead Kindly Light aboard ship for England.

Reform Act passed in England.

July 9, return to England.

July 14, Kebles Assize Sermon On National Apostacy.

July 2528, Hadleigh Conference, key moment in the emergence of the Oxford Movement.

August, publishes first essay of The Church of the Fathers in the British Magazine .

September 9, Newman publishes the first three Tracts for the Times .

October 29, Tracts 6 and 7 The Episcopal Church Apostolical.

November 4 and 11, Tracts 10 and 11.

November 5, Publication of Arians of the Fourth Century : Hurrell Froude departs for West Indies.

December 13 and 23, Tracts 15 and 19, Apostolical Succession .

December 24, Tract 20, The Visible Church .

1834

January 1, Tract 21, Mortification of the Flesh a duty .

Lyra Apostolica volume of verses with Keble and others.

March, publishes first volume of Parochial Sermons .

April 25, Tract 31, The Reformed Church .

May 1, Tracts 33 and 34, Primitive Epsicopacy, Rites and Customs .

June, Newman refuses to solemnize marriage of Miss Jubber, as an unbaptized person.

June 25, August 24, Tracts 38 and 41, The Via Media .

September, Newman begins published correspondence with the Abbe Jaeger.

November 1, Tract 47, Visible Church .

1835

March, publishes The Restoration of Suffragan Bishops Recommended and second volume of Parochial Sermons .

May, defeat of proposal to admit Dissenters to Oxford University.

1836

January, Volume 3 of Parochial Sermons , Tract 71, Controversy with Romanists .

February 2, Tract 73, Introduction of Rationalist Principles into Religion .

February 13, publishes (anonymously) Elucidations of Dr Hamdens Theological Statements .

February 17, Hamden appointed Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.

February 28, death of Hurrell Froude.

April, British Critic review, Le Bas Life of Laud .

April 25, Tract 74, Catena Patrum on Apostolic Succession .

Summer, Newman commences Lectures on Prophetical Office of the Church in Adam de Brome chapel.

June 24, Tract 75, on the Roman Breviary.

July, British Critic Brothers Controversy on Apostolic Tradition.

Reviews in British Critic Burtons History of the Christian Church.