[Prepared by Robert H. Ellison, East Texas Baptist University. The principal source is "A Newman Chronology" in Apologia Pro Vita Sua, ed. David J. DeLaura (New York: Norton, 1968), xiii-xiv. ]
1801 Born on February 21
1816 Enters Trinity College, Oxford
1820 Receives B.A. degree
1822 Elected Fellow of Oriel College
1824 Ordained to the diaconate on June 13
Becomes curate of St. Clement's, Oxford the same day
1825 Ordained to the priesthood on May 29
1826 Becomes tutor of Oriel
1828 Succeeds Edward Hawkins as vicar of St. Mary's
1833 "Lead, Kindly Light"
The Arians of the Fourth Century
Publication of Tracts for the Times begins in September
1838 Becomes editor of The British Critic
Lectures on Justification
1839 Doubts about via media begin
1841 Tract 90 published on February 27
1842 Moves to Littlemore
1843 Retracts anti-Catholic statements in February
Resigns from St. Mary's in September
Sermons, Bearing on Subjects of the Day
Sermons Before the University of Oxford
1845 Received into the Catholic Church
on October 9
Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
1846 Ordained to the priesthood in May
1848 Establishes Birmingham Oratory
Loss and Gain
1849 Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations
1851 Becomes Rector of Catholic University of Ireland
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England
1852 The Idea of a University
1856 Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century
1857 Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
1864 Apologia Pro Vita Sua
1865 "The Dream of Gerontius"
1868 Parochial and Plain Sermons
1870 Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
1877 Elected honorary fellow of Trinity College
1879
Becomes a cardinal
Motto is "Cor ad cor loquitor" — "Heart speaks to heart"
1890
Dies on August 11
Epitaph reads "Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem" — "Out
of shadows and pictures into truth"
Last modified 11 December 2006