| 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 |