Ghana (01)

1821-1957 British rule



1821-1957

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1821 7 may UK crown colony of Gold Coast Sir Charles Macarthy
1821 17 october Part of UK West African colony
1850 13 january UK colony of Gold Coast Sir William Winniett
1850 4 december James Bannerman
1851 14 october Stephen John Hill (I)
1853 june James Coleman Fitzpatrick
1853 august Brodies Cruickshank
1854 february Stephen John Hill (II)
1854 december Henry Connor
1857 march Sir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine
1858 17 april Henry Bird
1860 20 april Edward B. Andrews
1862 14 april William Ross
1862 20 september Richard Pine
1865 Rokeby Jonees
1865 W.E. Mockler
1866 19 february Part of UK West African colony
1874 24 july UK colony of Gold Coast George Cumine Strahan
1876 7 april Charles Cameron Lees (I)
1876 december Sanford Feeling
1878 13 may Charles Cameron Lees (II)
1879 june Herbert Taylor Ussher
1880 1 december William Brandford Griffith (I)
1881 4 march Sir Samuel Rowe (I)
1882 13 may Alfred Moloney
1882 4 october William Brandford Griffith (II)
1882 24 december Sir Samuel Rowe (II)
1884 29 april Wiliam A.G. Young
1885 24 april Sir William Brandford Griffith (III)
1887 11 april F.B.P. White
1887 26 november Sir William Brandford Griffith (IV)
1889 30 june Frederick Mitchell Hodgson (I)
1890 18 february Sir William Brandford Griffith (V)
1891 12 june Frederick Mitchell Hodgson (II)
1891 24 november Sir William Brandford Griffith (VI)
1893 12 august Frederick Mitchell Hodgson (III)
1894 7 march Sir William Brandford Griffith (VII)
1895 7 april Sir William Edward Maxwell (I)
1896 12 april Frederick Mitchell Hodgson (IV)
1896 23 october Sir William Edward Maxwell (II)
1897 6 december Frederick Mitchell Hodgson (V)
1900 29 august W. Low
1900 17 december Sir Mathew Nathan
1904 9 february Herbert Bryan (I)
1904 3 march John Pickersgill Rodger
1910 1 september Herbert Bryan (II)
1910 21 november James Jamieson Thorburn
1912 29 june Herbert Bryan (III)
1912 26 december Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
1919 1 april Alexander Ransford Slater (I)
1919 9 october Frederic Gordon Guggisberg
1927 24 april John C. Maxwell
1927 july Alexander Ransford Slater (II)
1932 5 april Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote (I)
1932 30 november Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas
1934 13 may Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote (II)
1934 24 october Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodgson
1941 24 october George Ernest London
1942 29 june Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns
1948 12 janaury Sir Gerald Hallen Creasy
1949 15 february Sir Robert Scott (I)
1949 28 march Thorleif Rattray Orde Mangin
1949 11 june Sir Robert Scott (II)
1949 11 august Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke
1951 8 february UK self governig colony
1952 21 march Kwame Nkrumah


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