Southern Australia


1788-1870

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1788 Part of South New Wales UK colony
1836 28 december UK colony John Hindmarsh
1838 16 july George Milner Stephen
1838 17 october commissioner George Gawler
1841 15 may Sir George Grey
1845 25 october Frederick Holt Robe
1848 2 august Sir Henry Edward Fox Young
1854 20 december Boyle Travers Finniss
1855 8 june Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell
1856 24 october UK self governing colony
1862 4 march Sir Dominick Daly
1868 20 february Francis Gilbert Hamley
1869 16 february Sir James Fergusson

1870-1876

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1870 22 july
1872 7 december Sir Richard Davis Hanson
1873 9 january Sir Anthony Musgrave

1876-1904

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1876 24 march
1877 9 january Samuel James Way (I)
1877 24 march Sir William Wellington Cairns
1877 17 may Samuel James Way (II)
1877 2 october Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois
1883 9 january Samuel James Way (III)
1883 19 february Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson
1889 6 march Samuel James Way (IV)
1889 11 april Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, Earl of Kintore
1895 17 january Samuel James Way (V)
1895 29 october Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
1898 30 september Samuel James Way (VI)
1899 10 april Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
1901 1 janauary Australian state

1904-

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1904 13 janauary

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