Belize



1665-1919

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1665 Uk colony subordinate to Jamaica
1884 2 october Uk colony of British Honduras Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy
1891 Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney
1897 Sir David Wilson
1904 15 april Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott
1906 13 august Sir Eric John Eagles Swayne
1913 19 may Sir Wilfred Collett
1918 29 may William Hart Bennett
1919 22 march Sir Eyre Hutson

1919-1981

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1919 2 december
1925 16 april Sir John Alder Burdon
1932 9 march Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster
1934 2 november Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns
1940 24 february Sir John Adams Hunter
1947 14 january Sir Edward Gerald Hawkesworth
1949 28 february Sir Ronald Herbert Garvey
1952 21 october Sir Patrick Muir Renison
1956 17 january Sir Colin Hardwick Thornley
1961 9 december Sir Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard
1964 1 january UK self governing colony George Cadle Price (I)
1966 11 july Sir John Warburton Paul
1972 26 january Sir Richard Neil Posnett
1976 1 june Sir Peter Donovan McEntee
1980 Sir James Patrick Ivan Hennessy

1981-

YEAR DATE EVENT KING PRIME MINISTER GENERAL GOVERNOR
1981 21 september Independent under Commonwealth queen Elisabeth II George Cadle Price (I) Dame Minita Gordon
1984 17 december Manuel Esquivel (I)
1989 7 november George Cadle Price (II)
1993 3 july Manuel Esquivel (II)
1993 17 november Sir Colville Young
1998 28 august Said Musa
2008 11 february Dean Barrow

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