|
YEAR |
DATE |
EVENT |
PRIME MINISTER |
GOVERNOR |
|
1796 |
16 february |
UK Occupation |
|
Robert Andrews |
|
1798 |
12 october |
|
|
Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (I) |
|
1799 |
14 march |
|
|
Josias Champagne |
|
1799 |
22 july |
|
|
Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (II) |
|
1802 |
1 janaury |
UK Colony of Ceylon |
|
Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (II) |
|
1805 |
19 july |
|
|
Thomas Maitland |
|
1811 |
19 march |
|
|
John Wilson (I) |
|
1812 |
11 march |
|
|
Robert Brownrigg |
|
1820 |
1 february |
|
|
Edward Barnes (I) |
|
1822 |
2 february |
|
|
Edward Paget |
|
1822 |
6 november |
|
|
James Campbell |
|
1824 |
18 january |
|
|
Edward Barnes (II) |
|
1831 |
13 october |
|
|
John Wilson (II) |
|
1831 |
23 october |
|
|
Robert Wilmot-Horton |
|
1837 |
7 november |
|
|
James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie |
|
1841 |
15 april |
|
|
Colin Campbell |
|
1847 |
19 april |
|
|
James Emerson Tennent |
|
1847 |
29 may |
|
|
George Byng, Viscount Torrington |
|
1850 |
18 october |
|
|
Charles Justin MacCarthy (I) |
|
1850 |
27 november |
|
|
Sir George William Anderson |
|
1855 |
18 january |
|
|
Charles Justin MacCarthy (II) |
|
1855 |
11 may |
|
|
Henry George Ward |
|
1860 |
30 june |
|
|
Henry Frederick Lockyer |
|
1860 |
30 july |
|
|
Charles Edmund Wilkinson |
|
1860 |
22 october |
|
|
Charles Justin MacCarthy (III) |
|
1863 |
1 december |
|
|
Terence O'Brien |
|
1865 |
21 march |
|
|
Hercules George Robert Robinson |
|
1872 |
4 january |
|
|
Henry Turner Irving |
|
1872 |
4 march |
|
|
William Henry Gregory |
|
1877 |
4 september |
|
|
James Robert Longden |
|
1883 |
10 july |
|
|
John Douglas |
|
1883 |
3 december |
|
|
Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon |
|
1890 |
28 may |
|
|
Arthur Elibank Havelock |
|
1895 |
24 october |
|
|
Edward Noël Walker |
|
1896 |
10 february |
|
|
Joseph West Ridgeway |
|
1903 |
19 november |
|
|
Edward F. im Thurn |
|
1903 |
3 december |
|
|
Sir Henry Arthur Blake |
|
1907 |
11 july |
|
|
Hugh Charles Clifford (I) |
|
1907 |
24 august |
|
|
Sir Henry Edward McCallum |
|
1913 |
24 january |
|
|
Reginald Edward Stubbs (I) |
|
1913 |
18 october |
|
|
Robert Chalmers |
|
1915 |
4 december |
|
|
Reginald Edward Stubbs (II) |
|
1916 |
15 april |
|
|
Sir John Andersen |
|
1918 |
24 march |
|
|
Reginald Edward Stubbs (III) |
|
1918 |
10 september |
|
|
Sir William Henry Manning |
|
1925 |
1 april |
|
|
Cecil Clementi |
|
1925 |
18 october |
|
|
Edward Bruce Alexander |
|
1925 |
30 november |
|
|
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (II) |
|
1928 |
20 august |
|
|
Sir Herbert James Stanley |
|
1931 |
11 february |
|
|
Bernard Henry Bourdillon |
|
1931 |
11 april |
|
|
Sir Graeme Thomson |
|
1933 |
20 september |
|
|
Francis Graeme Tyrrell |
|
1933 |
23 december |
|
|
Reginald Edward Stubbs (IV) |
|
1937 |
30 june |
|
|
Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn |
|
1937 |
16 october |
|
|
Sir Andrew Caldecott |
|
1944 |
19 september |
|
|
Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore |
|
1947 |
24 september |
|
Don Stephen Senanayake |
|
YEAR |
DATE |
EVENT |
HEAD OF STATE |
PRIME MINISTER |
GOVERNOR |
|
1951 |
2 march |
|
|
|
|
1952 |
6 february |
|
queen Elisabeth II |
|
|
1952 |
22 march |
|
|
Dudley Shelton Senanayake (I) |
|
1953 |
12 october |
|
|
Sir John Lionel Kotelawala |
|
1954 |
17 july |
|
|
|
Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke |
|
1956 |
12 april |
|
|
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike |
|
1959 |
26 september |
|
|
Vijayananda Dahanayake |
|
1960 |
21 march |
|
|
Dudley Shelton Senanayake (II) |
|
1960 |
21 july |
|
|
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (I) |
|
1962 |
2 march |
|
|
|
William Gopallawa |
|
1965 |
27 march |
|
|
Dudley Shelton Senanayake (III) |
|
1970 |
29 may |
|
|
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (II) |
|
1972 |
22 may |
Republic |
William Gopallawa |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (II) |
|
1977 |
23 july |
|
|
Junius Richard Jayawardene |
|
1978 |
4 february |
|
Junius Richard Jayawardene |
Ranasinghe Premadasa |
|
1989 |
2 january |
|
Ranasinghe Premadasa |
|
|
1989 |
3 march |
|
|
Dingiri Banda Wijetunge |
|
1993 |
1 may |
|
Dingiri Banda Wijetunge |
Ranil Wickremesinghe (I) |
|
1994 |
19 august |
|
|
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga |
|
1994 |
12 november |
|
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (III) |
|
2000 |
10 august |
|
|
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
|
2001 |
9 december |
|
|
Ranil Wickremesinghe (II) |
|
2004 |
2 april |
|
|
Mahinda Rajapakse |
|
2005 |
17 november |
|
Mahinda Rajapakse |
MaRanil Wickremesinghe (III) |
|
2010 |
21 april |
|
|
D.M. Jayaratne |
