Egyptians, Chinese, Babylonians - collecting 'people' statistics for military and tax purposes
5-yearly census conducted by Romans
Year 0, A.D.
7th Century 'Senchus fer n'Alba' - translated as the 'Tradition of the men of Alba'
1086 - The Domesday Book - an inventory of land and property in England ordered by William the Conqueror.
1666 - Quebec Census
1703 - Iceland Census
1768 - Spain Census
1790 - USA Census
1801 - First UK Census
1841 - enumerators used
1941 - Central Statistics Office (CSO) set up in UK
1967 - UK Data Archive
1971 - Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor
1981 - First IBM PC
1983 - Edingburgh University Data Library
1993 - CERN releases WWW
1996 - CSO becomes the Office for National Statistics