| TRANSYLVANIA |
| 1722 fiscal conscription (nobility exempted) nominal!? |
| 1733 religious conscription |
| 1750 fiscal conscription, (nobility exempted) nominal?; religious conscription |
| 1762 religious conscription |
| 1785 first modern, reliable, nominal census, some of the original forms were destroyed in 1790 |
| 1828 land census (nominal) |
| 1850 census |
| 1857 census, law passed: census to be made every 6 years |
| Censuses before 1867 are kept in Romanian archives; census data post 1880 at the archives in Budapest |
| 1875 civil registration transffered to laic authority - town halls |
| 1880 censuses every 10 years |
| Census data post 1880 in Transylvania is held by the archives in Budapest. |
| POPULATION OF TRANSYLVANIA |
| 1722 1.000.000 (only Central Transylvania) |
| 1760 67% romanians, 22% magyars,.12% germans |
| 1785 2.490.000 including Banat, Crisana, Maramures (Central Transylvania only - 1.670.000) |
| 1850 2.073.733 (Central Transylvania only) |
| 1857 2.172.748 |
| 1880 2.305.040 |
| 1890 2.500.033 |
| 1900 2.729.714 |
| WALLACHIA & MOLDOVA | |
| 1831 Plague merged with cholera (site ref ). Numbers dead ??? | |
| 1831 May: Wallachia starts civil registration (returns to parish churches); | |
| 1832 January: Moldavia starts civil registration (returns to parish churches); | |
| 1838 First fiscal census, nominal | |
| 1859 1st national census taken (uncertain as to whereabouts of the returns), national population now: ??? | |
| 1860 - 3: Romanian language changed from Cyrillic to Latin based characters; | |
| 1865: Plague of cholera (numbers dead ???); | |
| 1864 Census of jewish inkeepers and excisers living in villages | |
| 1865 December: Civil registration returns now sent to the town halls; | |
| 1871 Cholera plague (number dead ???); | |
| 1899 Second census of Romania, national population now ??? | |
Thanks, Neil Frish, for contributing to this page!
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