Senegal (01)

1626-1960 French rule


1626-1958








YEAR DATE EVENT GENERAL GOVERNOR
1626 French colony
1693 january UK Occupation
1693 july French colony
1697 4 june André Brué (I)
1702 1 may Jospeh LeMaitre
1706 Michael Jajolet de La Courbé
1710 Guillaume Joseph Mustellier
1711 15 august Pierre de Richebourg
1714 20 april André Brué (II)
1720 may Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert (I)
1723 april Julien du Bellay
1725 Nicolas Desprès de Saint-Robert (II)
1725 Arnaud Plumet
1726 Jean Levens de la Rouquette
1733 Lejuge
1733 7 march Sebastian Devaulx
1738 Pierre Félix Barthélemy David
1746 Jean-Baptiste Estoupan de la Rué
1758 30 april UK Occupation Richard Worge
1763 10 february John Barnes
1765 25 may Charles O'Hara
1775 november Matthias MacNamara
1777 8 april John Clarke
1778 18 august George Fall
1779 11 february French colony Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Lauzun
1779 march Jacques-Joseph Eyriés
1781 7 march J.B. Bertrand
1782 july Anne Gaston Dumontet
1784 february Louis Le Gardeur de Repentigny
1786 february Stanislas Jean Boufflers, chevalier de Boufflers (I)
1786 june François Blanchot de Verly (I)
1787 february Stanislas Jean Boufflers, chevalier de Boufflers (II)
1787 december François Blanchot de Verly (II)
1790 Charles Boucher
1792 may François Blanchot de Verly (III)
1801 january Charbonnes
1802 2 july Louis Henri Pierre Lasserre
1802 27 october François Blanchot de Verly (IV)
1807 september Pierre Levasseur
1809 13 july UK Occupation Charles William Maxwell
1811 Charles McCarthy
1814 Thomas Brereton
1817 25 january French colony Julien Schmaltz
1817 december Fleuriau
1819 13 march Julien Schmaltz
1820 14 august Louis Lecoupé de Montereau, baron Lecoupé
1821 1 march Jacques-François Roger, baron Roger
1827 18 may Gerbidon
1828 7 january Jean Gillaume Jubelin
1829 11 may Pierre de Brou
1831 24 may Thomas Renault de Saint-Germain
1833 18 october Cadest
1833 13 november Germain Quernel
1834 10 may Louis Pujol
1836 1 july Louis Malavois
1836 december Louis Guillet
1837 13 september Julien Soret
1839 12 april Guillaume Charmasson de Puy-Laval
1841 19 may Jean-Baptiste Montagniés de la Roque
1842 7 may Édouard Pageot des Noutiéres
1843 5 february Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez
1843 8 december Laborel
1844 july Pierre Thomas
1845 11 december François Ollivier
1846 20 march Hoube
1846 30 august Ernest Bourdon de Grammont, comte de Grammont
1847 24 august Caille
1847 7 september Léandre Berlin-Duchâteau (I)
1847 november Auguste Baudin (I)
1848 Léandre Berlin-Duchâteau (II)
1848 Auguste Baudin (II)
1850 august Aumont
1850 11 october Auguste Protet (I)
1853 april Verand
1854 31 january Auguste Protet (II)
1854 16 december gen. Louis Léon César Faidherbe (I)
1858 4 september A. Robin
1859 12 february gen. Louis Léon César Faidherbe (II)
1861 1 june Léopold François Stéphan
1861 1 december Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry
1863 13 may Jean Pinet-Laprade (I)
1863 14 july gen. Louis Léon César Faidherbe (III)
1865 1 may Jean Pinet-Laprade (II)
1869 18 august Ferdinand Charles Alexandre Tredos
1869 17 october François Xavier Michel Valière
1876 18 june Louis Alexandre Esprit Gaston Briére de I'Isle
1880 4 april Louis Ferdinand de Lanneau
1881 4 august Marie Auguste Deville de Perriére
1881 october Henri Philibert Canard
1882 28 june Aristide Louis Antoine Vallon
1882 15 november René Servatius
1883 28 june Adolphe Ernest Auguste Le Boucher
1883 25 july Henry Bourdiaux
1884 15 april Alphonse Seignac-Lesseps
1886 14 april Jules Genouille
1888 29 april Léon Émile Clément-Thomas
1890 22 september Henri Félix de Lamothe
1895 19 may Louis Mouttet
1895 16 june French West Africa Colony Jean Baptiste Émile Louis Barthélémy Chaudié
1900 1 november Noël-Eugène Ballay
1902 26 janaury Pierre Paul Marie Capest
1902 15 march Ernest Roume
1907 15 december Martial Henri Merlin (I)
1908 9 march Amédée William Merlaud-Ponty
1915 14 june Marie François Joseph Clozel
1917 3 june Joost van Vollenhoven
1918 22 january Gabriel Louis Angoulvant
1919 29 february Charles Désiré Auguste Brunet
1919 16 september Martial Henri Merlin (II)
1923 18 march Jules Gaston Henri Carde
1930 15 october Joseph Jules Brévié
1936 27 september Jules Marcel de Coppet
1938 14 july Léon Geismar
1938 28 october Pierre François Boissons (I)
1939 18 april Léon Henri Charles Cayla
1940 25 june Pierre François Boissons (II)
1943 1 july Pierre Charles Cournarie
1946 may René Barthes
1946 27 october French overseas territory
1948 27 january Paul Léon Albin Béchard
1951 24 may Paul Louis Gabriel Chauvet
1952 21 september Bernard Cornut-Gentille
1956 5 july Gaston Custin
1958 5 july Pierre Messmer

1958-

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER HIGH COMMISSIONER
1958 25 november Independent into French Comunity Mamadou Dia Pierre Auguste Michel Marie Lami
1959 4 april State of Mali Federation


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