| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1640 | 1 march | UK provence of Madras | |
| 1698 | 7 july | Thomas Pitt | |
| 1709 | 18 september | Gulston Addison | |
| 1709 | 17 october | Edmund Montague | |
| 1709 | 14 november | William Fraser | |
| 1711 | 11 july | Edward Harrison | |
| 1717 | 8 january | Jospeh Collett | |
| 1720 | 18 january | Francis Hastings | |
| 1721 | 15 october | Nathaniel Elwick | |
| 1725 | 15 january | James Macrae | |
| 1730 | 14 may | George Pitt | |
| 1735 | 23 january | Richard Benyon | |
| 1744 | 17 january | Nicholas Morse | |
| 1746 | 21 september | French occupation | Mahé de La Bourdonnais |
| 1746 | 2 october | Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil | |
| 1748 | UK Indian provence of Madras | Charles Floyer | |
| 1750 | 19 september | Thomas Saunders | |
| 1755 | 14 january | George Pigot (I) | |
| 1763 | 14 november | Robert Palk | |
| 1767 | 25 january | Charles Bourchier | |
| 1770 | 31 january | Josias Du Pré | |
| 1773 | 2 february | Alexander Wynch | |
| 1775 | 11 december | George Pigot (II) | |
| 1776 | 23 august | George Stratton | |
| 1777 | 31 august | John Whitehall (I) | |
| 1778 | 8 february | Sir Thomas Rumbold | |
| 1780 | 6 april | John Whitehall (II) | |
| 1780 | 8 november | Charles Smith | |
| 1781 | 22 june | George Macartney | |
| 1785 | 14 june | Alexander Davidson | |
| 1786 | 6 april | Sir Archibald Campbell | |
| 1789 | 7 february | John Holland | |
| 1790 | 13 february | Edward J. Holland | |
| 1790 | 20 february | William Medows | |
| 1792 | 1 august | Sir Charles Oakey | |
| 1794 | 7 september | Robert Hobart, Baron Hobart | |
| 1798 | 21 february | George Harris | |
| 1798 | 21 august | Edward Clive, Baron Powis | |
| 1803 | 30 august | William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck | |
| 1807 | 11 september | William Petrie | |
| 1808 | 24 february | Sir George Hilario Barlow | |
| 1813 | 21 may | John Abercromby | |
| 1814 | 16 september | Sir Thomas Munro | |
| 1827 | 10 july | Henry Sullivan Graeme | |
| 1827 | 18 october | Stephen Rumbold Lushington | |
| 1832 | 25 october | Sir Frederick Adam | |
| 1837 | 4 march | George Edward Russell | |
| 1837 | 6 march | John Elphinstone, Baron Elphinstone | |
| 1842 | 24 september | George Hay, Marquess of Tweeddale | |
| 1848 | 23 february | Henry Dickinson | |
| 1848 | 7 april | Sir Henry Eldred Pottinger | |
| 1854 | 24 april | Daniel Eliott | |
| 1854 | 28 april | George Francis Robert Harris, Baron Harris | |
| 1859 | 28 march | Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan | |
| 1860 | 8 june | William Ambrose Morehead (I) | |
| 1860 | 5 july | Sir Henry George Ward | |
| 1860 | 4 august | William Ambrose Morehead (II) | |
| 1861 | 18 february | Sir William Thomas Denison (I) | |
| 1863 | 26 november | Edward Maltby | |
| 1864 | 18 january | Sir William Thomas Denison (II) | |
| 1866 | 27 march | Francis Napier, Baron Napier of Merchistoun | |
| 1872 | 19 february | Alexander John Arbuthnot | |
| 1872 | 15 may | Vere Henry Hobart | |
| 1875 | 29 april | William Rose Robinson | |
| 1875 | 23 november | Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos | |
| 1880 | 20 december | William Patrick Adam | |
| 1881 | 24 may | William Huddleston | |
| 1881 | 5 november | Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff | |
| 1886 | 8 december | Robert Bourke, Baron Connemara | |
| 1890 | 1 december | John Henry Garstin | |
| 1891 | 23 january | Bentley Lawley, Baron Wenlock | |
| 1896 | 18 march | Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock | |
| 1900 | 28 december | Arthur Oliver Villiers-Russell, Baron Ampthill (I) | |
| 1904 | 30 april | James Thompson | |
| 1904 | 13 december | Arthur Oliver Villiers-Russell, Baron Ampthill (II) | |
| 1906 | 15 february | Gabriel Stoles | |
| 1906 | 28 march | Sir Arthur Lawley | |
| 1911 | 3 november | Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael | |
| 1912 | 30 march | Sir Murray Hammick | |
| 1912 | 30 october | John Sinclair, Baron Pentland | |
| 1919 | 29 march | Sir Alexander Gordon Cardew | |
| 1919 | 10 april | George Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Baron Willingdon | |
| 1924 | 12 april | Sir Charles George Todhunter | |
| 1924 | 14 april | George Joachim Goschen, Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst | |
| 1929 | 29 june | Sir Norman Edward Majoribanks | |
| 1929 | 11 november | Sir George Frederick Stanley (I) | |
| 1934 | 16 may | Khan Bahadur Sir Muhammad Usman Sahib Bahadur | |
| 1934 | 16 august | Sir George Frederick Stanley (II) | |
| 1934 | 15 november | Sir John Francis Ashley Erskine (I) | |
| 1936 | 18 june | Rai Bahadur Sir Kurma Venkata Reddi Naidu | |
| 1936 | 1 october | Sir John Frederick Erskine (II) | |
| 1940 | 12 march | Sir Arthur Oswald James Hope, Baron Rankeillour | |
| 1946 | 26 february | Sir Henry Foley Knight | |
| 1946 | 5 may | Sir Archibald Edward Nye | |
| 1947 | 15 august | Indian Madras province | |
| 1950 | 26 january | Indian state of Madras | |
| 1969 | 14 january | Indian state of Tamil Nadu |