Historical country records
Dominica historical timeline
Dominica
| Date or term | Officeholder or event | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1761 | British rule | Leaders |
| 7 Sep 1778 - 1784 | French rule | Leaders |
| 1833 - 1 Jan 1940 | part of the Leeward Islands (see under Antigua and Barbuda) | Leaders |
| 1 Jan 1940 - 1 Jan 1960 | part of the Windward Islands (see under Grenada) | Leaders |
| 3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962 | part of the Federation of the West Indies | Leaders |
| 1 Mar 1967 | associated state | Leaders |
| 3 Nov 1978 | independence (Commonwealth of Dominica) | Leaders |
| 1761 - 1768 | ... | Governors |
| 8 Mar 1768 - 1771 | William Young (1st time) | Governors |
| 1771 | William Stewart | Governors |
| 1771 - 1774 | William Young (2nd time) | Governors |
| 5 Feb 1774 - 1778 | Thomas Shirley | Governors |
| 1778 - 1784 | Marie Charles, marquis du Chilleau | Governors |
| Jan 1784 - 1789 | John Orde | Governors |
| 1789 - 1794 | Thomas Bruce | Governors |
| 1794 - 1796 | Henry Hamilton | Governors |
| 1797 - 1802 | Andrew James Cochrane Johnstone | Governors |
| 27 Sep 1802 - 1805 | George Prevost | Governors |
| 1805 - 1808 | George Metcalfe (acting) | Governors |
| 27 May 1808 - 1809 | James Montgomery | Governors |
| 1809 - 1812 | Edward Barnes | Governors |
| 1813 - Jun 1814 | George Robert Ainslie | Governors |
| Jun 1814 - 1816 | ... | Governors |
| 1816 - 1819 | Charles William Maxwell | Governors |
| 1819 - 1821 | Samuel Ford Whittingham | Governors |
| 1822 - 1824 | Hans Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1779 - d. 1828) | Governors |
| 1824 - 1831 | William Nicolay | Governors |
| 1831 - 1833 | Evan John Murray MacGregor | Governors |
| 1833 - 1834 | Charles Marsh Schomberg | Lieutenant governors |
| 1834 - 1837 | J.P. Lockhart (acting) | Lieutenant governors |
| 1837 - 1838 | Henry Light | Lieutenant governors |
| 1838 | John Longley | Lieutenant governors |
| 1839 - 1843 | John McPhail | Lieutenant governors |
| 1843 - 1845 | D.S. Laidlaw (acting) | Lieutenant governors |
| 1845 - 1851 | George McDonald | Lieutenant governors |
| 1851 - 1857 | Samuel Wensley Blackall | Lieutenant governors |
| 1857 - 1860 | Harry St. George Ord | Lieutenant governors |
| 1861 - 1864 | Thomas Price | Lieutenant governors |
| 1864 - 1867 | James Robert Longden | Lieutenant governors |
| 1869 | Henry Gascoyne Ernest Bulwer | Lieutenant governors |
| 1869 - 1871 | Sanford Freeling | Lieutenant governors |
| 1872 - 1873 | Alexander Wilson Moir | Presidents |
| 1873 - 1882 | Charles Monroe Eldridge | Presidents |
| 1882 - 1887 | James Meade | Presidents |
| 1887 - 1894 | George Ruthven Le Hunte | Presidents |
| 1895 - 1899 | Philip Arthur Templer | Administrators |
| 1899 - 1905 | Hesketh Bell | Administrators |
| 1905 - 1913 | William Douglas Young | Administrators |
| 1914 | Edward Rawle Drayton | Administrators |
| 1915 - 1919 | Arthur William Mahaffy | Administrators |
| 1919 - 1923 | Robert Walter | Administrators |
| Nov 1923 - 1924 | Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston | Administrators |
| Jul 1924 - 1930 | Edward Carlyon Eliot | Administrators |
| 1931 - 1933 | Walter Andrew Bowring | Administrators |
| 1933 - 1937 | Henry Bradshaw Popham | Administrators |
| 1938 - 1945 | James Scott Neill | Administrators |
| 1946 - 1952 | Edwin Porter Arrowsmith | Administrators |
| 1952 - 1959 | Henry Laurence Lindo | Administrators |
| 1959 - 1967 | Alec Lovelace | Administrators |
| Mar 1967 - 1968 | Geoffrey Colin Guy | Governors |
| 1968 - 3 Nov 1978 | Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue | Governors |
| 3 Nov 1978 - 16 Jan 1979 | Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue | Presidents |
| 16 Jan 1979 - Feb 1980 | Fred Degazon | Presidents |
| 15 Jun 1979 - 16 Jun 1979 | Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue | Presidents |
| 21 Jun 1979 - 25 Feb 1980 | Jenner Armour | Presidents |
| 25 Feb 1980 - 19 Dec 1983 | Aurelius Marie | Presidents |
| 19 Dec 1983 - 25 Oct 1993 | Clarence Augustus Seignoret Augustus Seignoret) (b. 1919 - d. 2002) | Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1993 - 5 Oct 1998 | Crispin Sorhaindo | Presidents |
| 6 Oct 1998 - 1 Oct 2003 | Vernon Shaw | Presidents |
| 2 Oct 2003 - | Nicholas Liverpool | Presidents |
| 1 Jan 1960 - Jan 1961 | Frank Baron | Chief ministers |
| Jan 1961 - 1 Mar 1967 | Edward Oliver LeBlanc | Chief ministers |
| 1 Mar 1967 - 27 Jul 1974 | Edward Oliver LeBlanc | Premiers |
| 27 Jul 1974 - 3 Nov 1978 | Patrick R. John | Premiers |
| 3 Nov 1978 - 21 Jun 1979 | Patrick R. John | Prime ministers |
| 21 Jun 1979 - 21 Jul 1980 | Oliver Seraphine | Prime ministers |
| 21 Jul 1980 - 14 Jun 1995 | Eugenia Charles (from 1991, Dame Eugenia Charles) (f) (b. 1919 - d. 2005) | Prime ministers |
| 14 Jun 1995 - 3 Feb 2000 | Edison James | Prime ministers |
| 3 Feb 2000 - 1 Oct 2000 | Rosie Douglas | Prime ministers |
| 1 Oct 2000 - 6 Jan 2004 | Pierre Charles | Prime ministers |
| 6 Jan 2004 - 8 Jan 2004 | Osborne Riviere (acting) | Prime ministers |
| 8 Jan 2004 - | Roosevelt Skerrit | Prime ministers |