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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1803 | UK colony | John Bowen | |
| 1804 | 16 february | Part of New South Wales colony | |
| 1825 | 14 june | UK colony | col. George Arthur | 
| 1836 | 31 october | Kenneth Snodgrass | |
| 1837 | 6 january | Sir John Franklin | |
| 1843 | 21 august | Sir John Eardley-Wilmot | |
| 1846 | 13 october | Charles Joseph La Trobe | |
| 1847 | 26 january | Sir William Thomas Denison | |
| 1855 | 8 january | Sir Henry Edward Fox Young | |
| 1861 | 11 december | Thomas Gore Browne | |
| 1868 | 30 december | W.C. Trevor | 
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1869 | 15 january | Charles Du Cane | |
| 1874 | 30 november | Sir Francis Smith (I) | |
| 1875 | 13 january | Frederick Aloysius Weld | |
| 1875 | 29 november | 
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1876 | 25 september | ||
| 1880 | 6 april | Sir Francis Smith (II) | |
| 1880 | 21 october | Sir Henry Lefroy | |
| 1881 | 7 december | Sir George Cumine Strahan | |
| 1886 | 29 october | William Robert Giblin | |
| 1886 | 18 november | Sir William Lambert Dobson (I) | |
| 1887 | 11 march | Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton | |
| 1892 | 30 november | Sir William Lambert Dobson (I) | |
| 1893 | 8 august | Jenico William Joseph Preston Viscount Gormanston | |
| 1900 | 19 august | Sir John Stockell Dodds (I) | |
| 1901 | 1 janaury | Australian state |