Historical country records

Trinidad and Tobago historical timeline

Trinidad

Date or term	Officeholder or event	Category
1532	Spanish colony	Leaders
18 Feb 1797	taken by Britain	Leaders
1802	Spain formally cedes Trinidad to Britain	Leaders
1 Jan 1899	part of Trinidad and Tobago	Leaders
1699 - 1704	Francisco Ruíz de Aguirre	Governors
1704 - 1711	Felipe de Artieda	Governors
1711 - 1716	Cristóbal Félix de Guzmán	Governors
1716 - 1721	Pedro de Jara	Governors
1721	Juan de Orvay (acting)	Governors
1721 - 1726	Martín Pérez de Anda y Salazar	Governors
1726 - 1730	Agustín de Arredondo	Governors
1730 - 1733	Bartolomé de Aldunate y Rada	Governors
1733 - 1735	José Orbay + Pedro Ximenes (acting)	Governors
1735 - Jan 1746	Esteban Simón de Liñan y Vera	Governors
Jan 1746 - Jun 1746	Félix Espinosa de los Monteros	Governors
1746 - 7 Jan 1752	Juan José Salcedo	Governors
7 Jan 1752 - 17 Jan 1757	Francisco Manclares	Governors
17 Jan 1757 - 6 Apr 1760	Pedro de la Moneda	Governors
6 Apr 1760 - 1762	Jacinto San Juan	Governors
1762 - 5 Apr 1766	José Antonio Gil	Governors
5 Apr 1766 - 31 Mar 1773	José de Flores	Governors
31 Mar 1773 - 30 Dec 1776	Juan de Dios Váldez y Yarza	Governors
30 Dec 1776 - 11 Jul 1779	Manuel Falquez (military governor)	Governors
1776 - 31 Mar 1781	Martín de Salaverria	Governors
31 Mar 1781 - 23 Jan 1784	Juan Francisco Machado	Governors
23 Jan 1784 - 18 Oct 1784	Antonio Barreto (acting)	Governors
18 Oct 1784 - 18 Feb 1797	José María Chacón	Governors
18 Feb 1797 - Feb 1797	Sir Ralph Abercromby	Governors
Feb 1797 - Feb 1803	Thomas Picton	Governors
Feb 1803 - Jul 1804	Commission - William Fullarton (b. 1758 - d. 1808) - Samuel Hood (b. 1762 - d. 1814) - Thomas Picton (s.a.)	Governors
Jul 1804 - 27 Sep 1811	Sir Thomas Hislop	Governors
27 Sep 1811 - 14 Jun 1813	William Munro	Governors
14 Jun 1813 - Jan 1828	Sir Ralph James Woodford	Governors
Jan 1828 - Apr 1828	J.V. Capadose (acting)	Governors
Apr 1828 - 10 Mar 1829	Charles Felix Smith	Governors
10 Mar 1829 - 22 Apr 1833	Lewis Grant (from 1831, Sir Lewis Grant) (b. ... - d. 1852)	Governors
22 Apr 1833 - 9 Mar 1839	Sir George Fitzgerald Hill	Governors
9 Mar 1839 - Apr 1840	John Alexander Mein (acting)	Governors
Apr 1840 - 1846	Henry George Macleod	Governors
1846 - 1854	George Francis Robert Harris, Baron Harris (b. 1810 - d. 1872)	Governors
10 Mar 1854 - 1857	Sir Charles Elliot	Governors
26 Jan 1857 - 1864	Robert William Keate	Governors
6 Sep 1864 - 1866	Sir John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton (b. 1814 - d. 1877)	Governors
7 Nov 1866 - 1870	Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon	Governors
25 Jun 1870 - 1874	James Robert Longden	Governors
2 May 1874 - 1874	William Wellington Cairns	Governors
20 Nov 1874 - 1880	Henry Turner Irving	Governors
2 Nov 1880 - 1884	Sir Sanford Freeling	Governors
19 Jun 1884 - 1885	Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee	Governors
24 Jan 1885 - 1885	Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock	Governors
9 Oct 1885 - 1891	Sir William Robinson	Governors
19 Aug 1891 - 1897	Sir Frederick Napier Broome	Governors
2 Jun 1897 - 1 Jan 1899	Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham	Governors

Tobago

Date or term	Officeholder or event	Category
1628	Dutch colony (Nieuw Walcheren)	Leaders
1684	neutral territory	Leaders
1762	British colony (Tobago)	Leaders
2 Jun 1781 - 15 Apr 1793	French rule	Leaders
1802 - 1803	French rule	Leaders
1833 - 1889	part of the Windward Islands (see under Grenada)	Leaders
1 Jan 1899	part of Trinidad and Tobago	Leaders
1980	autonomy	Leaders
12 Nov 1764 - Jul 1766	Alexander Brown	Lieutenant governors
2 Dec 1766 - 16 Oct 1767	William Hill	Lieutenant governors
16 Oct 1767 - 1769	Roderick Gwynne	Lieutenant governors
1769 - 1771	Robert William Stewart (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1771 - 1777	William Young	Lieutenant governors
1777 - 1779	Peter Campbell (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1779 - 1781	John Graham (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1781 - 2 Jun 1781	George Ferguson	Lieutenant governors
Governors (from 1889 commis	sioners)	Lieutenant governors
2 Jun 1781 - 1784	Philibert François Rouxel de Blanchelande (b. 1735 - d. 1793)	Lieutenant governors
1784 - 1786	René Marie, vicomte d'Arrot	Lieutenant governors
1786 - 1789	Arthur, comte Dillon	Lieutenant governors
1789 - 1792	Antoine de Jobal de Poigny	Lieutenant governors
1792 - 1793	Philippe Marie de Marguenat	Lieutenant governors
1793 - 15 Apr 1793	Laroque de Monteil	Lieutenant governors
1793 - 1794	William Myers (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1794 - 1795	George Poyntz Ricketts	Lieutenant governors
1795 - 1796	William Lindsay	Lieutenant governors
1797 - 1799	Stephen de Lancey	Lieutenant governors
1799 - 1800	Joseph Robley (1st time) (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1800	Richard Master	Lieutenant governors
1800 - 1801	Joseph Robley (2nd time) (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1801 - 1802	Hugh Lyle Carmichael (acting)	Lieutenant governors
7 Nov 1802 - 26 Dec 1802	François de Sahuguet d'Amarzit	Lieutenant governors
1803	César Berthier	Lieutenant governors
30 Jun 1803 - Jul 1803	Thomas Picton (acting)	Lieutenant governors
Jul 1803 - Aug 1803	William Johnstone (acting)	Lieutenant governors
Aug 1803 - Jul 1804	Donald MacDonald (acting)	Lieutenant governors
Jul 1804 - 1807	John Halkett	Lieutenant governors
1807 - 1815	Sir William Young	Lieutenant governors
1816 - 1827	Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson	Lieutenant governors
1828 - 1833	Nathaniel Blackwell	Lieutenant governors
1833 - 1845	Henry Charles Darling	Lieutenant governors
1845 - 1850	Laurence Graeme	Lieutenant governors
1851	David Robert Ross	Lieutenant governors
1852	Dominick Daly	Lieutenant governors
1852 - Feb 1854	Henry Yates (acting)	Lieutenant governors
Feb 1854 - 1856	Willoughby J. Shortland	Lieutenant governors
1856	James Kirk (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1856 - 1857	James Henry Keens (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1857 - 1864	James Vickery Drysdale	Lieutenant governors
1865 - 1872	Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright	Lieutenant governors
1872 - 1875	Herbert Taylor Ussher	Lieutenant governors
1875 - 1877	Robert William Harley	Lieutenant governors
1877 - 1880	Augustus Frederick Gore	Lieutenant governors
1880 - 1882	Edward Laborde	Lieutenant governors
1883 - 1884	John Worrell Carrington	Lieutenant governors
1885	Lorraine Gudded Hay (1st time)	Lieutenant governors
1885 - 1887	Robert Baxter Llewelyn	Lieutenant governors
1888 - 1892	Lorraine Gudded Hay (2nd time)	Lieutenant governors
1892	Thomas Crossley Rayner	Lieutenant governors
1892 - 1897	William Low	Lieutenant governors
1897	S.W. Snaggs (acting)	Lieutenant governors
1897 - 1 Jan 1899	J. Clanforgael O'Halloran (acting)	Lieutenant governors
Dec 1980 - 16 Dec 1986	A.N.R. Robinson	Chairmen of the House of Assembly
16 Dec 1986 - 31 Oct 1989	Jeff Davidson	Chairmen of the House of Assembly
1 Nov 1989 - Dec 1996	Lennox Denoon	Chairmen of the House of Assembly
Dec 1996 - 31 Jan 2001	Hochoy Charles	Chief secretaries of the House of Assembly
1 Feb 2001 -	Orville London	Chief secretaries of the House of Assembly

Trinidad and Tobago

Date or term	Officeholder or event	Category
1 Jan 1899	Trinidad and Tobago united	Leaders
3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962	part of the Federation of the West Indies (with Antigua, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Turks and Caicos Islands)	Leaders
31 Aug 1962	independence	Leaders
1 Aug 1976	Republic of Trinidad and Tobago	Leaders
1 Jan 1899 - 1900	Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham	Governors
4 Dec 1900 - 1904	Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney	Governors
30 Aug 1904 - 29 Aug 1908	Sir Henry Moore Jackson	Governors
11 May 1909 - Jan 1916	Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte	Governors
1 Jun 1916 - 1921	Sir John Robert Chancellor	Governors
1 Jan 1922 - 1924	Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson	Governors
22 Nov 1924 - 1930	Sir Horace Archer Byatt	Governors
22 Mar 1930 - 1936	Sir Alfred Claud Hollis	Governors
17 Sep 1936 - 1938	Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher (b. 1878 - d. 1954)	Governors
8 Jul 1938 - 1942	Sir Hubert Winthrop Young	Governors
8 Jun 1942 - 1947	Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford	Governors
7 Mar 1947 - 1950	Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw	Governors
19 Apr 1950 - 1955	Sir Hubert Elvin Rance	Governors
23 Jun 1955 - 1960	Sir Edward Betham Beetham	Governors
4 Jul 1960 - 31 Aug 1962	Sir Solomon Hochoy	Governors
31 Aug 1962 - 15 Sep 1972	Sir Solomon Hochoy	Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)
15 Sep 1972 - 1 Aug 1976	Sir Ellis Clarke	Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)
1 Aug 1976 - 13 Mar 1987	Ellis Clarke	Presidents
13 Mar 1987 - 19 Mar 1987	Michael Williams (acting)	Presidents
19 Mar 1987 - 19 Mar 1997	Noor Hassanali	Presidents
19 Mar 1997 - 17 Mar 2003	A.N.R. Robinson	Presidents
17 Mar 2003 -	George Maxwell Richards	Presidents
28 Oct 1956 - 29 Mar 1981	Eric Williams	Prime ministers
30 Mar 1981 - 18 Dec 1986	George Chambers	Prime ministers
18 Dec 1986 - 17 Dec 1991	A.N.R. Robinson	Prime ministers
17 Dec 1991 - 9 Nov 1995	Patrick Manning (1st time)	Prime ministers
9 Nov 1995 - 24 Dec 2001	Basdeo Panday	Prime ministers
24 Dec 2001 -	Patrick Manning (2nd time)	Prime ministers

Federation of the West Indies

Date or term	Officeholder or event	Category
3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962	Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, Baron Hailes (b. 1901 - d. 1974)	Governor-general
18 Apr 1958 - 31 May 1962	Sir Grantley Herbert Adams	Prime minister