| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | SULTAN | GOVERNOR | 
| 1503 |  | Portuguese colony | 
| 1698 |  | Part of Oman Sultanate |  |  | 
| 1806 | 14 september | Sultanate | Sayyid Sa`id ibn Sultan |  | 
| 1856 | 19 october |  | Sayyid Majid ibn Sa`id |  | 
| 1870 | 7 october |  | Sayyid Barghash ibn Sa`id |  | 
| 1885 | 17 february | German Protectorate |  |  | 
| 1888 | 27 march |  | Sayyid Khalifa I ibn Barghash |  | 
| 1890 | 14 february |  | Sayyid `Ali I ibn Sa`id |  | 
| 1890 | 7 november | UK Protectorate |  | Sir Lloyd Williams Matthews | 
| 1893 | 15 march |  | Sayyid Hamid ibn Thuwaini |  | 
| 1896 | 27 august |  | Sayyid Hammud ibn Muhammad |  | 
| 1901 | 11 october |  |  | Vacant | 
| 1901 | 3 november |  |  | A.S. Rogers | 
| 1902 | 19 july |  | Sayyid `Ali II ibn Hammud |  | 
| 1906 |  |  |  | Arthur E. H. Raikes | 
| 1908 |  |  |  | Francis Barton | 
| 1911 | 16 december |  | Sayyid Khalifa II ibn Kharub |  | 
| 1914 |  |  |  | Francis Barrow Pearce | 
| 1922 |  |  |  | John Houston Sinclair | 
| 1924 | january |  |  | Sir Claud Hollis | 
| 1929 | december |  |  | Sir Richard Sims Donkin Rankine | 
| 1937 | october |  |  | John Hathorn Hall | 
| 1941 |  |  |  | Sir Henry Guy Pilling | 
| 1946 |  |  |  | Sir Vincent Goncalves Glenday | 
| 1952 |  |  |  | John Dalzell Rankine | 
| 1954 | 2 november |  |  | Sir Henry Potter | 
| 1959 |  |  |  | Sir Arthur George Rixon Mooring | 
| 1960 | 9 october |  | Sayyid `Abd Allah ibn Khalifa |  | 
| 1961 | february |  |  | G.C. Lawrence | 
| 1963 | 1 july |  | Sayyid Jamshid ibn `Abd Allah | Mohammed Hamadi |