| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1803 | Part of UK Colony of Bengal | ||
| 1912 | 1 april | Part of UK Indian provence of Bihar | |
| 1936 | 1 april | UK Inidian provence | Sir John Austen Hubback (I) |
| 1938 | 11 august | George Townsend Boag | |
| 1938 | 8 december | Sir John Austen Hubback (II) | |
| 1941 | 1 april | Sir William Hawthorne Lewis | |
| 1946 | 1 april | Sir Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi | |
| 1947 | 15 august | Indian provence | |
| 1950 | 26 january | State of India |