| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1853 | 24 september | French colony | Auguste Febvrier des Pointes |
| 1854 | Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel | ||
| 1855 | Joseph-Fidèle-Eugène de Bouzet | ||
| 1858 | Jean-Marie-Joseph-Théodose Saysset de Mars | ||
| 1860 | Jean-Pierre-Thomas Durand | ||
| 1862 | Charles Guillain | ||
| 1869 | Jacques-Eugène-Barnabe Ruillier | ||
| 1870 | Eugène Gualtier de la Richerie | ||
| 1874 | Louis-Eugène Alleyron | ||
| 1875 | Leopold-Eberhard-Ludwig de Pritzbuer | ||
| 1879 | Jean-Baptiste-Léon Olry | ||
| 1880 | Amédée-Anatole-Prosper Courbet | ||
| 1882 | Leopold-Augustin-Charles Pallu de la Barrière | ||
| 1884 | Antione-Frédéric-Henri Le Boucher | ||
| 1886 | Louis-Hippolyte-Marie Nouet | ||
| 1888 | Léon-Émile Clément-Thomas | ||
| 1889 | Noël Pardon | ||
| 1891 | Émile-Gustave Laffon | ||
| 1892 | Albert-Jean-Georges-Marie-Louis Picquié | ||
| 1894 | Paul-Théodore-Ernest-Marie Feillet | ||
| 1902 | Édouard Picanon | ||
| 1906 | Victor-Théophile Liotard | ||
| 1909 | Louis-Alphonse Bonhoure | ||
| 1910 | Auguste-Charles-Désiré-Emmanuel Brunet | ||
| 1915 | Jules-Vincent Repiquet (I) | ||
| 1919 | Joseph-Marie-Eugène Joulia | ||
| 1921 | Jules-Vincent Repiquet (II) | ||
| 1923 | Henri-Joseph-Marie d'Arboussier | ||
| 1925 | Marie-Casimir-Joseph Guyon | ||
| 1932 | Léonce-Alphonse-Noël-Henri Jore (I) | ||
| 1933 | Bernard-Jacques-Victorin Siadous | ||
| 1936 | Alexandre-Jean-Marcel Marchessou | ||
| 1938 | Léonce-Alphonse-Noël-Henri Jore (II) | ||
| 1939 | René-Victor-Marie Barthès | ||
| 1939 | Marie-Marc-Georges Pelicier | ||
| 1940 | 19 september | Henri-Camille Sautot | |
| 1942 | Marie-Henri-Ferdinand-Auguste Montchamp | ||
| 1943 | Christian-Robert-Roger Laigret | ||
| 1944 | Jacques-Victor-François Tallec | ||
| 1946 | 27 october | French Oversea Territory | |
| 1947 | Georges-Hubert Parisot | ||
| 1948 | Pierre-Charles Cournarie | ||
| 1951 | Raoul-Eugène Angammarre | ||
| 1954 | René Hoffherr | ||
| 1956 | Aimé Grimald | ||
| 1959 | Laurent-Elisée Péchoux | ||
| 1963 | Casimir-Marc Biros | ||
| 1965 | Jean Risterucci | ||
| 1969 | 18 october | Louis Verger | |
| 1973 | 22 december | Jean Gabriel Eriau | |
| 1978 | 13 december | Claude Charbonniaud | |
| 1981 | 9 december | Christian Léon Colombo Nucci | |
| 1982 | october | Jacques Roynette |