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| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1839 | 16 january | UK occupation | |
| 1873 | UK protectorate | ||
| 1937 | 1 april | UK Colony | Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly |
| 1940 | 24 april | Sir John Hathorn Hall | |
| 1945 | 1 january | Sir Reginald Stuart Champion | |
| 1950 | William Allmond Codrington Goode | ||
| 1951 | april | Sir Tom Hickinbotham | |
| 1956 | 13 july | Sir William Henry Tucker Luce | |
| 1960 | 23 october | Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston |
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR |
| 1963 | 18 january | State under UK rule | Hassan Ali Bayumi | Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston |
| 1963 | 17 july | Zayn Abdu Baharun | Sir Gerald Kennedy Nicholas Trevaskis | |
| 1964 | 21 december | Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull | ||
| 1965 | 7 march | Abdel-Qawi Hasan Makkawi | ||
| 1965 | 25 september | Ali Musa id al-Babakr | ||
| 1966 | 30 august | Salih al-Awadli | ||
| 1967 | 22 may | Sir Humphrey Trevelyan | ||
| 1967 | 30 november | Part of South Yemen |