| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1674 | French Colony of Pondichéry | ||
| 1686 | French colony of Chandernagor | ||
| 1693 | Dutch occupation | ||
| 1699 | French colony of Chandernagor and Pondichéry | François Martin | |
| 1707 | january | Pierre Dulivier (I) | |
| 1708 | july | Guillaume-André d'Hébert (I) | |
| 1712 | Pierre Dulivier (II) | ||
| 1717 | Guillaume-André d'Hébert (II) | ||
| 1718 | august | Pierre André Prévost de La Prévostière | |
| 1721 | 11 october | Pierre-Christoph Le Noir (I) | |
| 1723 | Joseph Beauvollier de Courchant | ||
| 1725 | French colony of Mahé | ||
| 1726 | Pierre-Christoph Le Noir (II) | ||
| 1734 | november | Pierre Benoît Dumas | |
| 1738 | French colony of Karikal | ||
| 1742 | Joseph François Dupleix | ||
| 1751 | French colony of Yanaon | ||
| 1754 | august | Charles-Robert Godeheu de Zaimont | |
| 1755 | Georges Duval de Leyrit | ||
| 1758 | Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally-Tollendal | ||
| 1760 | january | UK occupation | |
| 1765 | French India colony | Jean Law de Lauriston (I) | |
| 1766 | Antoine Boyelleau | ||
| 1767 | Jean Law de Lauriston (II) | ||
| 1777 | Guillaume-Léonard de Bellecombe, seigneur de Teirac | ||
| 1783 | Charles Joseph Pâtissier, marquis de Bussy-Castelnau | ||
| 1785 | François, vicomte de Souillac | ||
| 1785 | october | David Charpentier de Cossigny | |
| 1787 | october | Thomas, comte Conway | |
| 1789 | october | Camille-Charles Leclerc, chevalier de Fresne | |
| 1792 | Dominique-Prosper de Chermont | ||
| 1793 | L. Leroux de Touffreville | ||
| 1793 | UK occupation | ||
| 1803 | French India colony | Charles-Matthieu-Isidore, comte Décaen | |
| 1803 | Binot | ||
| 1803 | UK occupation | ||
| 1816 | september | French India colony | André Julien, comte Dupuy |
| 1825 | october | Cordier (I) | |
| 1826 | 19 june | Philippe Panon, vicomte Desbassayns de Richemont | |
| 1828 | august | Cordier (II) | |
| 1829 | 10 april | Auguste Jacques Nicolas Peureux de Mélay | |
| 1835 | 3 may | Hubert Jean Victor, marquis de Saint-Simon | |
| 1840 | april | Paul de Norquer du Camper | |
| 1844 | Louis Pujol | ||
| 1849 | Hyacinth Marie de Lalande de Calan | ||
| 1851 | Philippe Achille Bédier | ||
| 1852 | Raimond-Jean-Baptiste de Verminac de Saint-Maur | ||
| 1857 | Alexandre Jean Baptiste Joseph Jacques de Verminac Durand d'Ubaye | ||
| 1863 | Napoléon Joseph Louis Bontemps | ||
| 1871 | Pierre Aristide Faron | ||
| 1875 | Adolphe Joseph Antoine Trillard | ||
| 1878 | Léonce Laugier | ||
| 1881 | Julien Théodore Drouet | ||
| 1884 | Étienne-Antoine-Guillaume Richaud | ||
| 1886 | Louis Evenor Édouard Manès | ||
| 1888 | Georges Jules Piquet | ||
| 1889 | Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouët | ||
| 1891 | Léon Émile Clément-Thomas | ||
| 1896 | Louis Jean Girod | ||
| 1898 | François Pierre Rocher | ||
| 1902 | Victor Louis Marie Lanrezac | ||
| 1904 | Jean-Baptiste Philémon Lemaire | ||
| 1905 | Joseph Pascal François | ||
| 1906 | Gabriel Louis Angoulvant | ||
| 1908 | Adrien Jules Jean Bonhoure | ||
| 1909 | Ernest Fernand Lévêcque | ||
| 1910 | Pierre Louis Alfred Duprat | ||
| 1912 | Alfred Albert Martineau | ||
| 1918 | Louis-Martial-Innocent Gerbinis | ||
| 1926 | Pierre Jean Henri Didelot | ||
| 1928 | Robert Paul Marie de Guise | ||
| 1931 | François-Adrien Juvanon | ||
| 1934 | august | Léon Solomiac | |
| 1936 | Horace Valentin Crocicchia | ||
| 1938 | Louis Alexis Étienne Bonvin | ||
| 1945 | Nicolas Ernest Marie Maurice Jeandin | ||
| 1947 | Charles François Marie Baron | ||
| 1949 | Charles Chambon | ||
| 1950 | André Meynard | ||
| 1950 | 2 may | Chandernagor transferred to India | |
| 1954 | 1 november | Pondicherry transferred to India | |
| 1956 | may | Karikal, Yanaon, and Mahé transferred to India | |
| 1963 | 16 august | Indian Union Territory |