Around 1805 the number of people alive on Earth reached 1 billion. It had taken the whole of human history to get there: farming, then better nutrition and the first gains in medicine and sanitation, slowly let more children survive. The next billion would take little more than a century. It took place in 1805.
Before and after
- 21 December 1804Birth of Benjamin Disraeli
- 1805Rise of Muhammad Ali dynasty
- 1805Peace of Pressburg
- from 1805 to 1806War of the Third Coalition
- 1805World population reaches 1 billion
- 2 April 1805Birth of Hans Christian Andersen
- 9 May 1805Death of Friedrich Schiller
- 22 June 1805Birth of Giuseppe Mazzini
- 29 July 1805Birth of Alexis de Tocqueville
More in Society, economy & sport
- 25 March 1807Britain abolishes the slave trade
- from 19 July 1848 to 20 July 1848The Seneca Falls Convention
- 14 September 1867Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
- 1869Founding of Goldman Sachs
- 1874Founding of Universal Postal Union
- 29 November 1899Founding of FC Barcelona
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.