Mauritius



1638-1810

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1638 31 july Dutch colony
1692 Roelof Dieodati
1703 Abraham Momber van der Velde
1710 Abandoned ile
1718 French colony of Île de France Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant
1722 april Denis, chevalier de Nyon
1723 Antoine Boucher-Desforges
1725 december Denis de Brousse
1727 august Pierre-Benoît Dumas
1729 august Nicholas de Naupin
1735 june Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de la Bourdonnais (I)
1740 february Didier de Saint Martin (I)
1740 august Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de la Bourdonnais (II)
1746 march Didier de Saint Martin (II)
1747 february Pierre Félix Barthélemy David
1750 14 march Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
1756 january René Magon de la Villebague
1759 bnovember Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher
1767 july French crown colony of Île Maurice Jean Daniel Dumas
1768 november Jean Guillaume Stenauer
1769 june Francis Julien Dudresnay, chevalier Desroches
1772 august Charles Louis d'Arsac, chevalier de Ternay
1776 december Antoine, chevalier de Guiran La Brillane
1779 3 may François, vicomte de Souillac (I)
1785 5 april Camille-Charles Leclerc, chevalier de Fresne
1785 28 june Chevalier de Fleury
1785 november François, vicomte de Souillac (II)
1787 16 february Joseph Antoine Raymond de Bruny, chevalier d'Entrecasteaux
1789 november Thomas, comte de Conway
1790 august David Charpentier de Cossigny
1792 17 june Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maures, comte de Malartic
1800 29 july François-Louis Magallon des Lamorlière
1803 september Charles Mathieu Isidore, comte Décaen

1810-1906

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1810 3 december UK colony Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar
1823 Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole
1828 Sir Charles Colville
1833 Sir William Nicolay
1840 Sir Lionel Smith
1842 Sir William Maynard Gomm
1849 Sir George William Anderson
1851 Sir James Macaulay Higginson
1857 Sir William Stevenson
1863 Sir Henry Barkly
1871 Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon
1874 Sir Arthur Purves Phayre
1879 Sir George Ferguson Bowen
1880 Sir Frederick Napier Broome
1883 Sir John Pope Hennessy
1889 Sir Charles Cameron Lees
1893 Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham
1897 Sir Charles Bruce
1904 20 august Sir Cavendish Boyle

1906-1923

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1906
1911 George Smith
1911 13 november Sir John Robert Chancellor
1916 18 may Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell

1923-1968

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1923 14 december
1925 19 february Sir Herbert James Read
1930 30 august Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson
1937 21 october Sir Bede Edward Hugh Clifford
1942 5 july Sir Donald Mackenzie-Kennedy
1949 26 september Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood
1954 22 april Sir Robert Scott
1959 3 november Sir Colville Montgomery Deverell
1961 26 september Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
1962 17 september Sir John Shaw Rennie

1968-

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1968 12 march Independent into Commonwealth queen Elisabeth II Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Sir John Shaw Rennie
1968 3 september Sir Arthur Leonard Williams
1972 27 december Sir Abdul Rahman Muhammad Osman
1977 31 october Sir Henry Garrioch
1979 26 april Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay
1982 16 june Sir Anerood Jugnauth (I)
1983 28 december Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
1986 17 january Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo
1992 12 march Republic Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo Sir Anerood Jugnauth
1992 30 june Cassam Uteem
1995 22 december Navin Ramgoolam (I)
2000 17 september Sir Anerood Jugnauth (II)
2002 15 february Angidi Chettiar
2002 18 february Ariranga Pillay
2002 25 february Karl Offmann
2003 1 october Raouf Bundhun Pravind Jugnauth
2003 8 october Sir Anerood Jugnauth
2005 5 july Navin Ramgoolam (II)


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