| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1834 | Part of New South Wales colony | ||
| 1851 | 15 july | UK colony | Charles Joseph La Trobe |
| 1854 | 6 may | John Vesey Fitzgerald | |
| 1854 | 22 june | Sir Charles Hotham | |
| 1855 | 1 january | Edward MacArthur | |
| 1856 | 26 december | Sir Henry Barkly | |
| 1863 | 11 september | Sir Charles Henry Darling | |
| 1866 | 7 may | George Jackson Carey | |
| 1866 | 15 august | Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1870 | 1 february | ||
| 1873 | 3 march | Sir John Ferguson Bowen |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1877 | 30 november | ||
| 1879 | 29 april | George Augustus Constantine Phipps Marquess of Normanby | |
| 1884 | 18 april | Sir William Foster Stawell | |
| 1884 | 15 july | Sir Henry Brougham Loch | |
| 1889 | 16 november | Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson | |
| 1889 | 28 november | John Adrian Louis Hope Earl of Hopetoun | |
| 1895 | 27 march | Sir John Madden (I) | |
| 1895 | 25 october | Thomas Brassey, Baron Brassey | |
| 1900 | 15 january | Sir John Madden (II) |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1901 | 1 janaury | Australian state |
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1953 | 1 janaury |