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Encyclopedia: 1892 (10026 words) |
 | Prince Albert Victor [of Wales], Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward Wettin) (January 8, 1864 – January 14, 1892) was born in Windsor, England, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark, and was therefore the second in line... |
| Stefan Banach Stefan Banach (March 30, 1892 in Kraków, part of Poland under the occupation of Austria-Hungary – August 31, 1945 in Lviv, Soviet Union), was a Polish mathematician, one of the moving spirits of the Lwów School of Mathematics in pre-war Poland. |
| Mehemet Emin Pasha (March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892), born Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, was a doctor, naturalist and governor of Equatoria in Africa. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia (6415 words) |
| On his arrival in Sydney, Governor Macquarie bluntly informed him that no "Popish missionary" would be allowed to intrude within the settlement, and that every person in the penal colony must be a Protestant. |
| This colony had been founded in 1836 as a free and "socially superior" Protestant settlement, from which "Papists and pagans" were to have been rigidly excluded. |
| For a time all the colonies of the Australasian group followed the example initiated by New South Wales in according State aid to the clergy and the denominational schools of the principal religious bodies, Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists. |
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