| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR |
| 1521 | 15 december | Part of Spanish colony of Venezuela | |
| 1797 | 18 september | UK colony | Sir Thomas Picton |
| 1804 | july | Sir Thomas Hislop | |
| 1811 | 27 september | William Munro | |
| 1813 | 14 june | Sir Ralph James Woodford | |
| 1828 | january | J.V. Capadose | |
| 1828 | april | Charles Felix Smith | |
| 1829 | 10 march | Sir Lewis Grant | |
| 1833 | 22 april | Sir George Fitzgerald Hill | |
| 1839 | 9 march | John Alexander Mein | |
| 1840 | april | Henry George Macleod | |
| 1846 | George Francis Robert Harris, Baron Harris | ||
| 1854 | 10 march | Sir Charles Elliot | |
| 1857 | 26 january | Robert William Keate | |
| 1864 | 6 september | Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton | |
| 1866 | 7 november | Sir Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon | |
| 1870 | 25 june | James Robert Longden | |
| 1874 | 2 may | William Wellington Cairns | |
| 1874 | 20 november | Henry Turner Irving | |
| 1880 | 2 november | Sir Sanford Freeling | |
| 1884 | 19 june | Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee | |
| 1885 | 24 january | Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock | |
| 1885 | 9 october | Sir William Robinson | |
| 1891 | 19 august | Sir Frederick Napier Broome | |
| 1897 | 2 june | Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham | |
| 1899 | 1 january | Part of Trinidad and Tobago |