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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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On August 4, 1903, the College of Cardinals in Vatican City elects Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto as the new Pope after the lengthy illness and death of Pope Leo XIII. He chooses the name Pius X, and leads the Catholic Church until his death in 1914. Read more about it!
The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| July 20, 1903 | Pope Leo XIII, born Gioacchino Pecci and whose papacy lasted 25 years, dies at the age of 93. |
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| August 4, 1903 | Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto is elected Pope and chooses the name Pius X. |
| August 20, 1914 | The papacy of Pius X ends with his death. |
