The first sampling census in the Congo extended over a three-year period, 1955 - 57 ; ;

* 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.

Due to the Anglo-Boer War, the first census of Bechuanaland Protectorate, originally set to occur in 1901, took place on 17 April 1904.

The 1971 census was the first census in Botswana to use de facto enumeration ; this method counts people based on how many people spent census night at a specific location.

The 2001 census was the first census in Botswana to comply with the SADC 2000 Census Project, the guidelines of which unify the demographic statistics in southern Africa.

The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: the huge number which results ( over 600, 000 ) demonstrates the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham of innumerable descendants, as well as serving as God's guarantee of victory in Canaan.

Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.

The census was first instituted by Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome.

In the first place the tributum, or property-tax, had to be paid by each citizen according to the amount of his property registered in the census, and, accordingly, the regulation of this tax naturally fell under the jurisdiction of the censors.

Census enumeration has always been based on finding people where they live as there is no systematic alternative-any list you could use to find people is derived from census activities in the first place.

In 2006, for the first time, Australians were able to complete their census online.

The first census was carried out in 1846 then it is carried out every 10 years.

This is the first registered based census.

The first census covering the unified state took place in 1888.

In 1871, Canada's first formal census was conducted, which counted the population of Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

The first quinquennial census was conducted in 1956.

For the 2006 Census of Canada, respondents were able, for the first time, to choose to complete their census questionnaire online.

The first economic census was taken in 2004 and the second 2008.

The first census was in 1857 when what is now Croatia was part of Austrian Empire.

The first Danish census was in 1700-1701, and contained statistical information about adult men.

Following these early undertakings, the first census to attempt completely covering all citizens ( including women and children who had previously been listed only as numbers ) of Denmark-Norway was taken in 1769.

The Statistical Department of the Ministry of Finance conducted the first census in 1882, which considered as a preparatory step ; the first true population census was conducted in 1897.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

By the first the State of Lahore ( i. e. West Punjab ) handed over to the British, as equivalent for one crore indemnity, the hill countries between the rivers Beas and Indus ; by the second the British made over to Gulab Singh for 75 lakhs all the hilly or mountainous country situated to the east of the Indus and the west of the Ravi i. e. the Vale of Kashmir ).

In the 1950s, a unique opportunity to translate the Radiant City on a grand scale presented itself in the construction of the Union Territory Chandigarh, the new capital for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the first planned city in India.

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood's father, Chaudhry Sharif Khan, was a local village leader ( Numberdar ) and put all his income to educate his eldest son who stood first in his High school and stand in 3rd position in the Punjab Matric Board.

The government awarded him the scholarship and his father sent him to Government College University, Lahore ( GCU ) where he passed his FSc and stood first in whole Punjab.

The first Governor was Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani, who was also the last Governor of West Punjab.

The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India ( now in Pakistan ).

The ruins of Harrappa were first described in 1842 by Charles Masson in his Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, where locals talked of an ancient city extending " thirteen cosses " ( about 25 miles ), but no archaeological interest would attach to this for nearly a century.

On September 4, 2012, Subway will open its first all-vegetarian outlet on the campus of Lovely Professional University ( LPU ) in Jalandhar, Punjab.

As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organised relief for refugees in Punjab and Delhi, and led efforts to restore peace across the nation.

Punjab was selected by the Indian government to be the first site to try the new crops because of its reliable water supply and a history of agricultural success.

All northeast-bound trains for Punjab or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa must first go over south to Rohri, Sindh ( near Sukkur ) before continuing north to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

* 1834-American Presbyterian Mission opens work in India in the Punjab ; Peter Parker MD, associated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, first American Medical Missionary to China opens Ophthalmic Hospital at Canton

Other major characters include Warbucks ' right-hand men, Punjab, an eight-foot native of India, introduced in 1935, and the Asp, an inscrutably generalized East Asian, who first appeared in 1937.

This marks the first day of the Hindu solar calendar and is also observed in Bengal, Manipur, Nepal, Orissa, Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu though called by different names.

He was first elected, in 1985, the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan.

A first generation American of East Indian heritage, Ms. Sharma's family left behind generations of violence and poverty in Punjab, India to build a new life in the United States.

The mature phase of this civilization is known as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India ( now in Pakistan ).

As he states in his autobiography, he " became something of a fanatic " and " the first Socialist to join the Indian Civil Service " in 1907, and was posted to Lahore in the Punjab in 1908.

On March 30, 1855 Dost Mohammad reversed his former policy by concluding an offensive and defensive alliance with the British government, signed by Sir Henry Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, first proposed by Herbert Edwardes.

* Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and distinguished Indian educator, renounced his knighthood in protest against the massacre and said, " a great crime has been done in the name of law in the Punjab.

The Wars of Alexander the Great were fought by King Alexander III of Macedon (" The Great "), first against the Achaemenid Persian Empire, under its " King of Kings " Darius III, and then against local chieftains and warlords as far east as Punjab, India.

A description of suttee appears in a Greek account of the Punjab written in the first century BCE by historian Diodorus Siculus.

The first Indian to fly into space, Rakesh Sharma was born on January 13, 1949 in Patiala, Punjab to Hindu Gaur parents, Sharma joined the Indian Air Force in 1970 as a pilot officer after joining the NDA as an IAF cadet in 1966.