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| 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 | 
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1870 | 22 july | ||
| 1872 | 7 december | Sir Richard Davis Hanson | |
| 1873 | 9 january | Sir Anthony Musgrave | 
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| 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 | 
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1904 | 13 janauary |