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The United Kingdom Census 1901 was the 11th nationwide census conducted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and was done on 31 March 1901 "relating to the persons returned as living at midnight on Sunday, March 31st".
The 1901 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. The census was started on June 1, 1901. All reports had been received by February 26, 1902. The total population count of Canada was 5,371,315. [1] This was an increase of 11% over the 1891 census of 4,833,239.
The census in the United Kingdom is decennial, that is, held every ten years, although there is provision in the Census Act 1920 for a census to take place at intervals of five years or more. There are actually three separate censuses in the United Kingdom – in England and Wales , Scotland , and Northern Ireland – although they are often co ...
31 March – The 1901 UK Census is held. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever recorded level. 26 April – First meeting of the Engineering Standards Committee, predecessor of the BSI Group. [8] 2 May–4 November – Glasgow International Exhibition. [9]
With almost 10,000 inhabitants at the 1901 census, the highest number of residents was reached. However, this number included almost 6,000 Boer prisoners of war [1]. Excluding the prisoners of war (who were on the island during 1900-1902), the highest population in the twentieth century was reached in 1987.
During the decennial England and Wales Censuses of 1841 to 1901, the individual schedules returned from each household were transcribed and collated by the census enumerators into Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs). It is these CEBs that are used by researchers in the fields of social science, local and family history etc. Their contents changed ...
A New Zealand census was held in March 1901. The population was given as 815,862, consisting of 43,112 Māori, 31 Moriori, and 772,719 others. [1] – an increase in the non-Māori population of 9.86% over the previous census in 1896.
8 January – John Barry, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Monument Hill, South Africa (born 1873). 22 January – Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (born 1819). 14 March – Arthur Gore, 5th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (born 1839).