Zanzibar


1503-1963

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

1963-1964

YEAR DATE EVENT SULTAN PRIME MINISTER
1963 10 december Sultanate Sayyid Jamshid ibn `Abd Allah Mohammed Hamadi

1964-1964

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER
1964 12 january Popular Republic Sheikh Obeid Amami Karume Abdullah Qasim Hanga

1964-

YEAR DATE EVENT PRESIDENT PRIME MINISTER
1964 27 april Union with Tanganica into Tanzania
1983 february Self governing State Ramadani Baki
1984 february Seif Shariff Hamad
1988 25 january Omar Ali Juma
1995 october Mohamed Gharib Bilali
2000 november Shamsi Vuai Nahodha
2010 3 november Ali Mohamed Shein
2020 2 november Hussein Mwinyi


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