| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1659 |  | UK Colony of Saint Helena | 
| 1697 |  |  | Stephen Poirier | 
| 1707 |  |  | Thomas Goodwin | 
| 1708 |  |  | John Roberts | 
| 1711 |  |  | Benjamin Boucher | 
| 1714 |  |  | Isaac Pyke (I) | 
| 1719 |  |  | Edward Johnson | 
| 1723 |  |  | John Smith | 
| 1727 |  |  | Edward Byfield | 
| 1731 |  |  | Isaac Pyke (II) | 
| 1738 |  |  | John Goodwin | 
| 1740 |  |  | Robert Jenkins | 
| 1741 |  |  | Thomas Lambert | 
| 1741 |  |  | George Gabriel Powel | 
| 1743 |  |  | David Dunbar | 
| 1747 |  |  | Charles Hutchison | 
| 1764 |  |  | John Skottowe | 
| 1782 |  |  | Daniel Corneille | 
| 1788 |  |  | Robert Brooke | 
| 1800 |  |  | Francis Robson | 
| 1801 |  |  | Robert Patton | 
| 1808 |  |  | Alexander Beatson | 
| 1813 |  |  | Mark Wilkes | 
| 1815 | 6 october | UK Colony of Ascension | 
| 1816 | 14 april |  | Sir Hudson Lowe | 
| 1816 | 14 august | UK Colony of Tristan da Cunha | 
| 1823 |  |  | Alexaner Walker | 
| 1828 |  |  | Charles Dallas | 
| 1834 |  | UK crown Colony | 
| 1836 |  |  | George Middlemore | 
| 1842 |  |  | Hamelin Trelaeney | 
| 1846 |  |  | Patrick Ross | 
| 1851 |  |  | Thomas Gore Browne | 
| 1856 |  |  | Edward Hay Drummond Hay | 
| 1863 |  |  | Charles Elliot | 
| 1870 |  |  | Charles George Edward Patey | 
| 1873 |  |  | Hudson Ralph Jamisch | 
| 1884 |  |  | Grant Blunt | 
| 1887 |  |  | William Grey-Willson | 
| 1897 |  |  | Robert Armitage Sterndale | 
| 1903 |  |  | Henry Lionel Gallwey | 
| 1912 |  |  | Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux |