| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | KING/PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR |
| 1858 | december | King Gelele "Kinikini," "Ahogla, "Togodo," "Basagla" | ||
| 1868 | 19 may | French Protectorate of Dahomey | ||
| 1889 | 30 december | King Gbehanzin "Chadakogundo" | ||
| 1894 | 15 january | King Agoli Agbo I | ||
| 1894 | 22 june | French colony of Dahomey | Victor-Marie Paul Victor Ballot | |
| 1899 | 3 july | Part of French colony of Western-Africa | ||
| 1911 | 24 june | French colony of Dahomey | Émile Merwart | |
| 1912 | 9 may | Charles Henri Adrien Noufflard | ||
| 1917 | 7 april | Gaston Léopold Joseph Fourn | ||
| 1928 | 29 august | Lucien Eugène Geay | ||
| 1929 | 4 april | Dieudonné François Joseph Marie Reste | ||
| 1931 | 8 february | Théophile-Antione-Pascal Tellier | ||
| 1932 | 7 january | Louis-Placide Blacher | ||
| 1932 | 2 august | Louis Aujas | ||
| 1933 | 22 july | Jules-Marcel de Coppet | ||
| 1934 | 24 august | Marcel-Alexandre-Jean Marchessou | ||
| 1935 | 15 february | Maurice-Léon Bourgine | ||
| 1937 | 12 january | Henri Étienne Martinet | ||
| 1937 | 7 august | Ernest Gayon | ||
| 1938 | 7 april | Henri Étienne Martinet (II) | ||
| 1938 | 1 june | Armand Léon Annet | ||
| 1940 | 27 august | Pierre Jean André Paliceti | ||
| 1940 | 18 september | Léon-Hippolyte Truitard | ||
| 1943 | 26 august | Charles André Maurice Assier de Pompignan | ||
| 1946 | 21 may | Robert Legendre | ||
| 1946 | 13 october | French overseas territory of Dahomey | Robert Legendre | |
| 1948 | 14 january | Jean Georges Chambon | ||
| 1949 | 13 january | Jacques Alphonse Boissier | ||
| 1949 | 19 september | Claude Valluy | ||
| 1951 | november | Charles-Henri Bonfils | ||
| 1955 | 21 june | Marc Casimir Biros | ||
| 1958 | 21 march | Bernard Hepp | ||
| 1958 | 15 july | René Tirant | ||
| 1958 | 4 december | Independent in the French Comunity | Sourou Migan Apithy | High Commisioner René Tirant |
| 1959 | 22 may | Hubert Maga |