Historical country records
French Guiana historical timeline
French Guiana
| Date or term | Officeholder or event | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1674 | French colony | Leaders |
| Jan 1809 - 8 Nov 1817 | Portuguese/Brazilian rule | Leaders |
| 19 Mar 1946 | French overseas département | Leaders |
| 1691 - 1700 | Pierre Eléonore de la Ville, marquis de Férolles (3rd time) (b. 16... - d. 1705) | Governors |
| 1700 - 1701 | Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1701 - 5 Aug 1705 | Pierre Eléonore de la Ville, marquis de Férolles (4th time) (s.a.) | Governors |
| 1705 - 1706 | Antoine de Querci de Rionville | Governors |
| 1706 - 1713 | Rémy Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1713 - 1716 | Pierre de Morthon de Laumière de Grandville | Governors |
| 1716 - 1720 | Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1720 - 1722 | François de la Motte-Aigron | Governors |
| 1722 - 1728 | Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1729 - 1730 | Michel Narshalek de Charanville | Governors |
| 1730 | Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1730 - 30 Aug 1736 | Henri Dussault de Lamirande | Governors |
| 1736 | Henri de Poilvillain de Grenay | Governors |
| 1736 - 1738 | Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1738 - 1743 | Antoine Le Moyne de Chateauguay | Governors |
| 1743 - 1751 | Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1751 - 1752 | Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de Saint-Michel Dunezat (1st time) | Governors |
| 1752 - 1753 | Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1753 - 1757 | Jean Baptiste Hyacinthe de Saint-Michel Dunezat (2nd time) | Governors |
| 1757 - 1763 | Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers | Governors |
| 1763 - 1764 | Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague | Governors |
| 1764 | Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond | Governors |
| 1764 - 1765 | Étienne François de Turgot | Governors |
| 1765 - 1766 | Jean Pierre Antoine de Béhague | Governors |
| 1766 - 1781 | Louis Thomas Jacau de Fiedmond | Governors |
| 1781 - 1785 | Ferdinand Alexandre de Bessner | Governors |
| 1785 | Louis de Lavallière | Governors |
| 1785 - 1787 | Thomas de FitzMaurice | Governors |
| May 1787 - 22 Oct 1788 | Pierre François de Mareuilh de Villeboi (b. ... - d. 1788) | Governors |
| 1788 - 1789 | Charles Guillaume Vial d'Alais | Governors |
| 1789 - 1791 | Jacques Martin de Bourgon | Governors |
| 1791 - 1792 | Henri Benoît | Governors |
| 1792 - 1793 | Frédéric Guillot | Governors |
| 14 Apr 1793 - Nov 1794 | Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin | Governors |
| Nov 1794 - Apr 1796 | François Maurice Cointet de Fillain (b. 1766 - d. 1809) | Governors |
| Apr 1796 - Nov 1798 | Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin | Governors |
| Nov 1798 - 2 Dec 1799 | Pierre Burnel | Governors |
| 13 Dec 1799 - 8 Jan 1800 | Étienne Franconie | Governors |
| 8 Jan 1800 - 1809 | Victor Hugues | Governors |
| 1809 - 8 Nov 1817 | João Severiano Maciel da Costa | Governors |
| 1817 - 1819 | Jean-François Carra Saint-Cyr | Governors |
| 25 Jan 1819 - 12 Mar 1823 | Pierre Clément de Laussat | Governors |
| 1823 - 1825 | Pierre Bernard de Milius | Governors |
| 1825 - 1826 | Charles Emmanuel de Muyssard | Governors |
| 1826 - 1827 | Joseph Burgues de Missiessy | Governors |
| 1827 - 1829 | Louis Henri de Saulces de Freycinet (b. 1777 - d. 1840) | Governors |
| 1 Jun 1829 - 11 Apr 1836 | Jean-Guillaume Jubelin | Governors |
| 1836 - 1837 | François Dominique Laurens de Choisy | Governors |
| 1837 - 1839 | Paul de Nourquer du Camper | Governors |
| 1839 - 1841 | Augustin Gourbeyre | Governors |
| 1841 - 1843 | Guillaume Charmasson de Puylaval | Governors |
| 1843 - 1845 | Jean-François Layrle | Governors |
| 1845 - 1846 | Jean Baptiste Armand Bertrand Cadéot | Governors |
| 18 Feb 1846 - 16 May 1850 | André Aimé Pariset | Governors |
| 1850 - 6 Jan 1851 | Louis Eugène Maissin | Governors |
| 1851 | Jean François Marie Félix Stanislas Vidal de Lingendes (b. 1796 - d. ...) | Governors |
| Mar 1851 - May 1852 | Octave Pierre Antoine Henri de Chabannes-Curton (b. 1803 - d. 1889) | Governors |
| 1852 - 1853 | Joseph Napoléon Sarda-Garriga | Governors |
| 1853 - 1854 | Martin Fourichon | Governors |
| 1854 - 1855 | Louis Adolphe Bonard | Governors |
| 1855 - Jan 1856 | Antoine Alphonse Masset | Governors |
| Jan 1856 - 1859 | Auguste Baudin | Governors |
| 15 May 1859 - 1 May 1864 | Louis Tardy de Montravel | Governors |
| 1864 - 1865 | Antoine Favre | Governors |
| 1865 - 1870 | Agathon Hennique | Governors |
| 30 Apr 1870 - Aug 1877 | Jean-Louis Loubère | Governors |
| 1877 - 1880 | Marie Alfred Armand Huart | Governors |
| 1880 - 1883 | Charles Alexandre Lacouture | Governors |
| 1883 - 1884 | Henri Isidore Chessé | Governors |
| 1884 - 1885 | Jean Baptiste Antoine Lougnon | Governors |
| 1885 - 1887 | Léonce Pierre Henri Le Cardinal | Governors |
| 1888 - 1891 | Anne Léodor Philotée Metellus Gerville-Réache (b. 1849 - d. ...) | Governors |
| Apr 1891 - 1893 | Albert Grodet (1st time) (acting) | Governors |
| 1893 | Paul Fawtier | Governors |
| 24 Apr 1893 - 4 Aug 1895 | Camille Charvein | Governors |
| 30 Aug 1895 - 13 Jun 1896 | Henri de Lamothe | Governors |
| 1896 - 1898 | Henri Danel | Governors |
| 1898 | Henri Charles Roberdeau | Governors |
| 1899 | Louis Mouttet | Governors |
| 1899 - 1903 | Émile Merwart | Governors |
| 1903 - 1904 | Albert Grodet (2nd time) | Governors |
| 1905 | Charles Marchal | Governors |
| 1905 - 1906 | Victor François Ferdinand Rey | Governors |
| 1906 | Louis Alphonse Bonhoure | Governors |
| 20 Jan 1906 - 5 Jul 1907 | Édouard Picanon | Governors |
| 1907 - 1909 | François Pierre Rodier | Governors |
| 1909 - 1910 | William Maurice Fawtier | Governors |
| 1910 | Fernand Ernest Thérond | Governors |
| 1910 - 31 May 1911 | Paul Samary | Governors |
| 1911 | Denys Joseph Goujon | Governors |
| 1911 - 1914 | Pierre Jean Henri Didelot | Governors |
| 1914 - 1916 | Fernand Levecque | Governors |
| 1916 | Pierre Jean Henri Didelot | Governors |
| 1916 - 1917 | Georges Lévy | Governors |
| 1917 | Jules Gérard Auguste Lauret | Governors |
| 1917 - 1918 | Antoine Joseph Xavier Barre | Governors |
| 1918 - 1923 | Henri Alphonse Joseph Lejeune | Governors |
| 1923 | Julien Edgard Cantau | Governors |
| 20 Nov 1923 - 1926 | Marc Émile Chanel | Governors |
| 1926 - 1927 | Gabriel Henri Joseph Thaly | Governors |
| 1927 | Adrien Juvanon | Governors |
| 1927 - 1928 | Émile Buhot-Launay | Governors |
| 1928 - 1929 | Camille Théodore Raoul Maillet | Governors |
| 1929 - 1931 | Bernard Jacques Victorin Siadous | Governors |
| 27 May 1931 - 1933 | Louis Bouge (acting) | Governors |
| 1933 - 1935 | Julien Georges Lamy | Governors |
| 2 Jun 1935 - 1936 | Max de Masson de Saint-Félix | Governors |
| 1936 | Pierre Tap | Governors |
| 1936 - 1938 | René Veber (1st time) | Governors |
| 1938 - 1942 | Robert Paul Chot-Plassot | Governors |
| 1942 - 1943 | René Veber (2nd time) | Governors |
| 1943 - 1944 | Jean Rapenne | Governors |
| 1944 - 1946 | Jules Surlemont (acting) | Governors |
| 1946 | Jean Pezet | Governors |
| Prefects (10 May 1982 - 24 | Feb 1988, commissioners of the republic) | Governors |
| 16 Aug 1947 - 1 Jun 1955 | Robert Vignon | Governors |
| 1 Jun 1955 - 16 Sep 1957 | Pierre Malvy | Governors |
| 1 Oct 1957 - 1 Nov 1958 | Pierre Voitellier | Governors |
| 13 Oct 1958 - 1 Dec 1960 | André Dubois-Chabert | Governors |
| 1 Dec 1960 - 1 Dec 1963 | René Erignac | Governors |
| 1 Dec 1963 - 16 Aug 1967 | René Letellier | Governors |
| 16 Aug 1967 - 16 Jul 1970 | Paul Bouteiller | Governors |
| 16 Jul 1970 - 1 Feb 1972 | Jean Monfraix | Governors |
| 1 Feb 1972 - 8 Feb 1974 | Jacques Robert Delaunay | Governors |
| 5 Mar 1974 - 20 May 1977 | Hervé Bourseillier | Governors |
| 20 May 1977 - 10 Feb 1980 | Jean Le Direach | Governors |
| 10 Feb 1980 - 27 Jul 1981 | Antoine Carli | Governors |
| 27 Jul 1981 - 22 Jul 1982 | Maxime Gonzalvo | Governors |
| Jul 1982 - 1984 | Claude Silberzahn | Governors |
| 1984 - 1986 | Bernard Courtois | Governors |
| 1986 - Aug 1988 | Jacques Dewatre | Governors |
| 22 Aug 1988 - 16 May 1990 | Jean-Pierre Lacroix | Governors |
| 19 Jun 1990 - May 1992 | Jean-François Di Chiara | Governors |
| 27 May 1992 - 6 Jan 1995 | Jean-François Cordet | Governors |
| 6 Jan 1995 - 3 Feb 1997 | Pierre Dartout | Governors |
| 3 Feb 1997 - 2 Aug 1999 | Dominique Vian | Governors |
| 2 Aug 1999 - 2 Sep 2002 | Henri Masse | Governors |
| 2 Sep 2002 - Aug 2006 | Ange Mancini | Governors |
| 28 Aug 2006 - | Jean-Pierre Laflaquière | Governors |
| 1982 - 1983 | Georges Othily | Presidents of the General Council |
| 1983 - Mar 1994 | Elie Castor | Presidents of the General Council |
| Mar 1994 - 30 Mar 1998 | Stéphan Phinera-Horth | Presidents of the General Council |
| 30 Mar 1998 - 26 Mar 2001 | André Lecante | Presidents of the General Council |
| 26 Mar 2001 - 4 Apr 2004 | Joseph Ho-Ten-You | Presidents of the General Council |
| 4 Apr 2004 - 20 Mar 2008 | Pierre Désert | Presidents of the General Council |
| 20 Mar 2008 - | Alain Tien-Long | Presidents of the General Council |