United States Virgin Islands







YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1650 French/Order of Malta colony
1672 Danish colony
1735 8 january Frederik Moth (I)
1736 Gregers Hög Nissen
1744 Poul Jensen Lindemark
1747 Jens Hansen
1751 Pieter Clusen
1756 Danish West Indies colony Christian Leberecht von Prøck
1766 Peter Clausen (I)
1770 Frederik Moth (II)
1772 Ulrich Wilhelm von Roepstorff
1773 july Hendrik Ludvig Ernst von Schimmelmann (I)
1773 october Peter Clausen (II)
1784 Hendrik Ludvig Ernst von Schimmelmann (II)
1787 Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff (I)
1794 Wilhelm Anton Lindemann (I)
1796 Thomas de Malleville
1799 Wilhelm Anton Lindemann (II)
1801 april UK occupation
1802 27 march Danish West Indies colony Ernst Frederik von Walterstorff (II)
1803 Baltharzar Frederik Mühlenfels
1803 march Hans Christopher Lillienskjøld
1807 december UK occupation Henry Bowyer
1815 20 november Danish West Indies colony Peter Lotharius von Oxholm
1816 may Adrian Benjamin Bentzon
1820 july Carl Adolph Rothe
1822 Johan Frederik Bardenfleth
1827 Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten
1848 july Frederik von Oxholm
1848 november Peder Hansen
1851 Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen
1855 Johan Frederik Schlegel
1861 Vilhelm Ludvig Birch
1871 february John Christmas
1871 june Frantz Ernst Bille
1872 july John August Stakeman
1872 september Janus August Garde
1881 Christian Henrik Arendrup
1893 Carl Emil Hedemann
1903 Herman August Jürs
1904 Frederik Theodor Martin Mortensen Nordlien
1905 Christian Magdalus Thestrup Gold
1908 Peter Carl Limpricht
1911 Lars Christian Helweg-Larsen
1916 Henrik Konow
1917 31 march U.S. colony James Harrison Oliver
1919 Joseph Wallace Oman
1921 Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle
1922 Henry Hughs Hough
1923 Philip Williams
1925 Martin Edwards Trench
1927 Waldo A. Evans
1931 18 march Paul Martin Pearson
1935 21 august Lawrence William Cramer
1941 3 february Charles Harwood
1945 17 may William H. Hastie
1949 30 november Morris Fidanque de Castro
1954 9 april Archibald A. Alexander
1955 17 october Walter A. Gordon
1958 25 september John David Merwin
1961 5 april Ralph M. Paiewonsky
1969 12 february Cyril Emanuel King
1969 1 july Melvin Herbert Evans (I)
1975 6 january Cyril Emanuel King (II)
1978 2 january Juan Francisco Luis
1987 5 january Alexander A. Farrelly
1995 5 january Roy L. Schneider
1999 4 january James Turnbul II
2007 4 january John deJongh


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