| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GENERAL GOVERNOR | 
| 1841 | 26 january | UK Colony | Charles Elliot | 
| 1841 | 22 august |  | Sir Henry Eldred Pottinger | 
| 1844 | 8 may |  | Sir John Francis Davis | 
| 1848 | 18 march |  | Sir Samuel George Bonham | 
| 1854 | 13 april |  | Sir John Bowring | 
| 1859 | 5 may |  | W. Caine | 
| 1859 | 9 september |  | Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson | 
| 1865 | 15 march |  | William T. Mercer | 
| 1866 | 11 march |  | Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell | 
| 1872 | 16 april |  | Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy | 
| 1877 | 22 april |  | Sir John Pope Hennessy | 
| 1882 | 7 march |  | Sir William H. Marsh (I) | 
| 1883 | 30 march |  | Sir George Ferguson Bowen | 
| 1885 | december |  | Sir William H. Marsh  (II) | 
| 1887 | may |  | William Gordon Cameron | 
| 1887 | 6 october |  | Sir George William Des Voeux | 
| 1891 | may |  | Digby Barker | 
| 1891 | 10 december |  | Sir William Robinson | 
| 1898 | february |  | W. Black | 
| 1898 | 25 november |  | Sir Henry Arthur Blake | 
| 1903 | 29 november |  | Francis Henry May (I) | 
| 1904 | 29 july |  | Sir Matthew Nathan | 
| 1907 | 29 july |  | Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard | 
| 1912 | 24 july |  | Francis Henry May (II) | 
| 1919 | 30 september |  | Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs | 
| 1925 | 1 november |  | Sir Cecil Clementi | 
| 1930 | 9 may |  | Sir William Peel | 
| 1935 | 12 december |  | Sir Andrew Caldecott | 
| 1937 | 28 october |  | Sir Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote | 
| 1940 | may |  | Edward Felix Norton | 
| 1941 | 10 september |  | Sir Mark Aitchinson Young (I) | 
| 1941 | 25 december | Japan occupation | Takashi Sakai | 
| 1942 | 20 february |  | Rensuke Isogai | 
| 1944 | 20 february |  | Hisaichi Tanaka | 
| 1945 | 16 august | UK colony | Sir Mark Aitchinson Young (II) | 
| 1947 | 25 july |  | Sir Alexander William Grantham | 
| 1958 | 23 january |  | Sir Robert Brown Black | 
| 1964 | 14 april |  | Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench | 
| 1971 | 19 november |  | Sir Murray MacLehose | 
| 1982 | 20 may |  | Sir Edward Youde | 
| 1986 | 4 december |  | David Akers-Jones | 
| 1987 | 9 november |  | Sir David Wilson | 
| 1992 | 9 july |  | Christopher "Chris" Patten |