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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1878 | 12 july | UK Occupation | Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley | 
| 1879 | 23 june | Sir Robert Biddulph | |
| 1886 | 9 march | Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer | |
| 1892 | 5 april | Sir Walter Joseph Sendall | |
| 1898 | 23 april | Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith | |
| 1904 | 23 october | Sir Charles Anthony King-Harman | |
| 1911 | 12 october | Hamilton John Goold-Adams | |
| 1915 | 8 january | Sir John Eugene Clauson | |
| 1918 | 31 december | Sir Malcolm Stevenson | 
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1925 | 10 march | UK Colony | |
| 1926 | 30 november | Sir Ronald Storrs | |
| 1932 | 29 october | Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs | |
| 1933 | 8 november | Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer | |
| 1939 | 4 july | Sir William Denis Battershill | |
| 1941 | 3 october | Sir Charles Campbell Woolley | |
| 1946 | 24 october | Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher, Baron Winster | |
| 1949 | 4 august | Sir Andrew Barkworth Wright | |
| 1954 | Sir Robert Perceval Armitage | ||
| 1955 | 25 september | Sir John Alan Francis Harding | |
| 1957 | 3 december | Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot |