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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | HEAD OF STATE | GOVERNOR | 
| 1786 | 11 august | UK colony | Francis Light | |
| 1794 | 21 october | Philip Mannington | ||
| 1795 | Forbes Ross McDonald | |||
| 1799 | George Leith | |||
| 1804 | Robert Townsend Farquhar | |||
| 1805 | Philip Dundas | |||
| 1807 | Norman Macalister | |||
| 1810 | Charles Andrew Bruce | |||
| 1810 | William Edward Phillips (I) | |||
| 1812 | William Petrie | |||
| 1816 | William Edward Phillips (II) | |||
| 1817 | John Alexander Bannerman | |||
| 1819 | 8 august | William Edward Phillips (III) | ||
| 1824 | Robert Fullerton | |||
| 1826 | 14 august | State of UK Melaka | ||
| 1941 | 14 december | Japan occupation | Shotaro Katayama | |
| 1943 | Masakichi Itami | |||
| 1945 | september | State of UK Melaka | ||
| 1957 | 31 august | State of Malaysia | Raja Tun Uda bin Raja Mohamad | 
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | HEAD OF STATE | 
| 1961 | |||
| 1967 | 31 august | Tun Saiyid Shah bin Saiyid Abdullah Shihabuddin | |
| 1969 | 5 february | Tun Datuk Saiyid Shah bin Saiyid Hasan Barakbah | |
| 1975 | 5 february | Tun Datuk Sardon bin Jabir | |
| 1981 | 1 may | Datuk Awang bin Hasan | |
| 1989 | 1 may | Tun Hamdan Sheikh Tahir | |
| 2001 | 1 may | Datuk Abdul Rahman Haji Abbas |