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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1881 | 26 august | UK Colony | Gustav Freiherr von Overbeck, Alfred Dent, Richard Charles Mayne, William Henry McLeod Read | 
| 1882 | april | Sir Rutherford Alcock | |
| 1888 | 12 may | UK protectorate | |
| 1893 | Sir Richard Biddulph Martin | ||
| 1910 | Sir Joseph West Ridgeway | ||
| 1926 | 3 february | Sir Neill Malcolm | |
| 1942 | 3 january | Japan occupation | |
| 1945 | august | UK protectorate | Sir Neill Malcolm | 
| 1946 | 15 july | UK crown colony | Charles Robert Smith | 
| 1946 | november | Edward Francis Twining | 
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1948 | 13 september | ||
| 1949 | Herbert Ralph Hone | ||
| 1954 | 4 march | Ronald Evelyn Turnbull | |
| 1959 | Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode | 
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | 
| 1963 | 16 september | State of Malaysia | Tun Datuk Mustafa bin Harun | 
| 1965 | 16 september | Datuk Pangeran Ahmad Rafai | |
| 1973 | 16 september | Tun Mohamad Fuad Stephens | |
| 1975 | august | Datuk Mohamad Indan bin Kari | |
| 1977 | Datuk Mohamad Abdullah | ||
| 1977 | 12 october | Tun Ahmad Koro | |
| 1978 | 25 june | Tun Datuk Mohamad Adnan Robert | 
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | 
| 1982 | 1 january | ||
| 1987 | Tun Sri Mohamad Said Keruak | 
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRESIDENT | 
| 1988 | 16 september | ||
| 1995 | 1 january | Sakaran Dandai | |
| 2003 | 1 january | Datuk Ahmadshah Abdullah |