| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1580 |  | Dutch colony | 
| 1692 | 2 november |  | Samuel Beekman | 
| 1707 | 10 december |  | Peter van der Heyden Resen | 
| 1719 | 24 july |  | Laurens de Heere | 
| 1729 | 12 october |  | Hermanus Gelskerke | 
| 1742 | april |  | Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande | 
| 1772 | 2 november |  | George Hendrik Trotz | 
| 1781 | 27 january | Uk occupation | Robert Nicholson | 
| 1782 |  | French occupation | Louis-Antoine Dazemard de Lusignan | 
| 1782 |  |  | Armand-Gui-Simone Coethempren, comte de Kersaint | 
| 1783 |  |  | Georges Manganon de la Perrière | 
| 1784 | 6 march | Dutch colony | Joseph Bourda | 
| 1785 | february |  | Jan L'Éspinasse | 
| 1789 | 18 august |  | Albertus Backer | 
| 1793 | 31 march |  | Willem August van Sirtema, baron van Grovestins | 
| 1795 |  |  | Antony Beaujon | 
| 1796 | 22 april | Uk occupation | Abraham Jacob van Imbijze van Batenburg | 
| 1802 | 27 april | Dutch colony | Antony Meertens | 
| 1803 | september | UK colony | Robert Nicholson (I) | 
| 1804 | 18 august |  | Anthony Beaujon | 
| 1805 | 19 october |  | Henry William Bentinck (I) | 
| 1806 | 8 may |  | James Montgomery | 
| 1807 | 2 may |  | Robert Nicholson (II) | 
| 1808 | 29 june |  | Andrew Ross | 
| 1809 | 8 april |  | Samuel Dalrymple | 
| 1809 | 19 may |  | Henry William Bentinck (II) | 
| 1812 | february |  | Hugh Lyle Carmichael | 
| 1813 | 11 may |  | E. Codd | 
| 1813 | 23 may |  | John Murray | 
| 1824 | 26 april |  | Sir Benjamin D'Urban | 
| 1833 | 26 june |  | Sir James Carmichael Smyth | 
| 1838 | 27 june |  | Henry Light | 
| 1848 | 19 may |  | William Walker (I) | 
| 1849 | 12 february |  | Henry Barkly | 
| 1853 | 11 may |  | William Walker (II) | 
| 1854 | 23 may |  | Philip Edmond Wodehouse | 
| 1862 | 7 january |  | Francis Hincks | 
| 1869 | 25 january |  | Sir John Scott | 
| 1873 | 26 december |  | E.E. Rushworth | 
| 1874 | 10 march |  | James R. Longden | 
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1875 |  |  |  | 
| 1877 | 8 march |  | William A.G. Young  (I) | 
| 1877 | 3 april |  | Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright | 
| 1881 | 13 december |  | William A.G. Young  (II) | 
| 1882 | 4 may |  | Sir Henry Turner Irving  (I) | 
| 1884 | 26 april |  | W.F. Haynes-Smith | 
| 1884 |  |  | Sir Henry Turner Irving  (II) | 
| 1887 |  |  | Charles Bruce (I) | 
| 1890 | 3 september |  | Jenico William Joseph Preston, Viscount Gormanston (I) | 
| 1891 | april |  | Charles Bruce (II) | 
| 1891 | 16 october |  | Jenico William Joseph Preston, Viscount Gormanston (I) | 
| 1893 | 23 march |  | Charles Bruce  (III) | 
| 1893 | 5 july |  | Sir Charles Cameron Lees  (I) | 
| 1894 | 15 december |  | Cavendish Boyle   (I) | 
| 1895 | 30 january |  | Sir Chalres Cameron Lees   (II) | 
| 1895 | september |  | Cavendish Boyle  (II) | 
| 1896 | march |  | Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming  (I) | 
| 1896 | 1 october |  | Cavendish Boyle  (III) | 
| 1896 | 18 november |  | Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming  (II) | 
| 1897 | 27 may |  | Cavendish Boyle  (IV) | 
| 1897 | 28 july |  | Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming  (III) | 
| 1898 | 27 march |  | Sir Walter Joseph Sendall | 
| 1901 | 25 december |  | Sir James Alexander Swettenham | 
| 1904 | 26 september |  | Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson |