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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1788 | 26 janaury | UK colony | cap. Arthur Philip |
| 1792 | 11 december | Francis Grose | |
| 1794 | 12 september | William Patterson (I) | |
| 1795 | 11 september | John Hunter | |
| 1800 | 28 september | Philip Gidley King | |
| 1806 | 13 august | William Bligh | |
| 1808 | 26 january | George Johnston | |
| 1808 | 28 july | Joseph Foveaux | |
| 1809 | 9 january | William Patterson (II) | |
| 1810 | 1 january | col. Lachlan Macquarie | |
| 1821 | 1 december | Sir Thomas Macdougall Brisbane | |
| 1825 | 1 december | William Stewart | |
| 1825 | 19 december | SirRalph Darling | |
| 1831 | 22 october | Patrick Lindesay | |
| 1831 | 3 december | Sir Richard Bourke | |
| 1837 | 6 december | Kenneth Snidgrass | |
| 1838 | 24 february | Sir George Gipps | |
| 1846 | 12 july | Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell | |
| 1846 | 3 august | Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy | |
| 1855 | 20 january | Sir William Thomas Denison | |
| 1856 | 6 june | UK self governing colony | |
| 1861 | 22 january | John Francis Kempt | |
| 1861 | 22 march | Sir John Young |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1867 | 25 december | Sir Trevor Chute | |
| 1868 | 8 january | Sir Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry Earl of Belmore |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1870 | 23 april | ||
| 1872 | 23 february | Sir Alfred Stephen (I) | |
| 1872 | 3 june | Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson |
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GENERAL GOVERNOR |
| 1876 | 18 february | ||
| 1879 | 20 march | Sir Alfred Stephen (II) | |
| 1879 | 4 august | Sir Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus | |
| 1885 | 10 november | Sir Alfred Stephen (III) | |
| 1885 | 12 december | Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington Baron Carrington | |
| 1890 | 3 november | Sir Alfred Stephen (IV) | |
| 1891 | 15 january | Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey | |
| 1893 | 3 march | Sir Frederick Matthew Darley (I) | |
| 1893 | 29 may | Sir Robert William Duff | |
| 1895 | 16 march | Sir Frederick Matthew Darley (II) | |
| 1895 | 22 november | Henry Robert Brand Viscount Hampden | |
| 1899 | 5 march | Sir Frederick Matthew Darley (III) | |
| 1899 | 18 may | William Lygon, Earl Beauchamp | |
| 1901 | 1 janaury | Australian state |