| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR | 
| 1895 | 1 july | UK East Africa Protectorate |  | Arthur Henry Hardinge | 
| 1900 | december |  |  | Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot | 
| 1904 | 20 june |  |  | Sir Donald William Stewart | 
| 1905 | 12 december |  |  | Sir James Hayes Sadler | 
| 1909 | 16 september |  |  | Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard | 
| 1912 | 3 october |  |  | Sir Henry Conway Belfield | 
| 1919 | 22 august |  |  | Sir Edward Northey | 
| 1920 | 23 july | UK colony |  |  | 
| 1922 | 15 august |  |  | Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon | 
| 1925 | 2 october |  |  | Edward William Macleag Grigg | 
| 1931 | 13 february |  |  | Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne | 
| 1937 | 6 april |  |  | Sir Robert Brooke-Popham | 
| 1940 | 9 january |  |  | Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore | 
| 1944 | 11 december |  |  | Sir Philip Euen Mitchell | 
| 1952 | 30 september |  |  | Sir Evelyn Baring | 
| 1959 | 23 october |  |  | Sir Patrick Muir Renison | 
| 1963 | 4 january | UK self-governing colony | Jomo Kenyatta | Malcolm John MacDonald |