| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | KING |
| 1870 | Kingdom | Abemana |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | COMMISSIONER |
| 1892 | october | UK protectorate of Gilebert and Ellice | Charles Richard Swayne |
| 1901 | W. Telfer Campbell | ||
| 1909 | John Quayle Dickson | ||
| 1913 | Edward Carlyon Eliot | ||
| 1916 | 12 janaury | UK colony | |
| 1921 | Herbert Reginald McClure | ||
| 1926 | Arthur Francis Grimble | ||
| 1933 | Jack Charles Barley |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | COMMISSIONER/GOVERNOR |
| 1937 | 1 ottobre | |||
| 1941 | Vivian Fox-Strangways | |||
| 1941 | december | Japanese occupation | ||
| 1943 | november | UK colony | Vivian Fox-Strangways | |
| 1946 | Henry Evans Maude | |||
| 1949 | William John Peel | |||
| 1952 | Michael Louis Bernacchi | |||
| 1962 | Valdemar Jens Andersen | |||
| 1970 | Sir John Osbaldiston Field | |||
| 1972 | 1 janaury | UK self-governing colony | Reuben K. Uatioa | Sir John Osbaldiston Field |
| 1973 | John Hilary Smith | |||
| 1974 | Naboua Ratieta |
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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR |
| 1975 | 1 october | UK self-governing colony of Gilbert | ||
| 1978 | march | Jeremiah Tabai | Reginald James Wallace |