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Grenada
 
Grenada, coat of arms
    Adopted 1974
 
15 Aug 1498               Discovered and claimed for Spain
20 Jun 1650               Annexed by France
05 Apr 1762               Annexed by Great Britan
03 Feb 1958 - 31 Mar 1962 Part of West Indies Federation
03 Mar 1967               Associated State
07 Feb 1974               Independence from U.K
13 Mar 1979 - 25 Oct 1983 People's Revolutionary Government
25 Oct      - 06 Nov 1983 Occupied by the U.S
 
Govenors-general
07 Feb 1974 - 04 Oct 1978 Sir Leo Victor de Gale .............. 1921-1986
04 Oct 1978 - 06 Aug 1992 Sir Paul N. Scoon ................... 1935-2013
06 Aug 1992 - 08 Aug 1996 Sir Reginald Oswald Palmer .......... 1923-
08 Aug 1996 - 18 Nov 2008 Sir Daniel Charles Williams ......... 1935-
18 Nov 2008 - 07 May 2013 Sir Carlyle Arnold Glean ............ 1932-
07 May 2013 -             Cécile La Granade
 
Prime Ministers
01 Aug 1967 - 13 Mar 1979 Eric Matthew Gairy .................. 1922-1997
13 Mar 1979 - 19 Oct 1983 Maurice Rupert Bishop ............... 1944-1983
                          (People's revolutianary government)
26 Sep      - 08 Oct 1983 Winston Bernard Coard ............... 1944-
                          (acting for Bishop)
19 Oct      - 25 Oct 1983 Hudson Austin ....................... 1938-
                          (Head of the Revolutionary Military Council)
09 Dec 1983 - 04 Dec 1984 Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite ....... 1925-
                          (1st Time)
04 Dec 1984 - 19 Dec 1989 Herbert Augustus Blaize ............. 1918-1989
20 Dec 1989 - 16 Mar 1990 Ben Joseph Jones .................... 1924-2005
16 Mar 1990 - 01 Feb 1995 Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite (2nd Time)
01 Feb      - 22 Jun 1995 George Ignatius Brizan .............. 1942-2012                      
22 Jun 1995 - 09 Jul 2008 Keith Claudius Mitchell (1st Time) .. 1946-
09 Jul 2008 - 20 Feb 2013 Tillman Joseph Thomas ............... 1945-
20 Feb 2013 -             Keith Claudius Mitchell (2nd Time)
 
 
Commander of the US Forces
25 Oct     - 09 Dec 1983 Joseph Metcalf III ................... 1927-2007

Windward Islands
 
       1871               Federal colony of thw Windward Islands
01 Jul 1956               Territory
31 Dec 1959               Dissolved
 
Governors
1833 - 1836               Sir Lionel Smith
1836 - 1841               Sir Evan John Murray McGregor
1841                      Charles Henry Darling
1841 - 1846               Sir Charles Edward Grey
1846 - 1848               William Reid
1848 - 1856               William Macbean George Colebrooke
1856 - 1862               Francis Hincks
1862 - 1868               James Walker
1868 - 1875               Rawson William Rawson
1875 - 1876               Sir John Pope Hennessy
1876                      Sanford Freeling
1876 - 1880               George Cumine Strahan
1880 - 1885               William Robinson
1885 - 1888               Sir Walter Joseph Sendall
1888 - 1892               Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson
1892 - 1897               Sir Charles Bruce
1897 - 1900               Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney
1900 - 1906               Sir Robert Baxter Llewelyn
1906 - 1909               Sir Ralph Champneys Williams
1909 - 1914               William James Hayes Sadler
1914 - 1923               Sir George Basil Haddon-Smith
1923 - 1924               Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston
1924 - 1930               Sir Frederick Seton James
1930 - 1935               Sir Thomas Alexander Best
       1935 - 19 Jan 1937 Sir Selwyn MacGregor Grier
19 Jan 1937 - 18 May 1942 Sir Henry Bradshaw Popham
18 May 1942 - 1948        Sir Arthur Francis Grimble
1948 - 1953               Sir Robert Duncan Harris Arundell
1953 - 1955               Edward Betham Beetham
       1955 - 31 Dec 1959 Sir Colville Montgomery Deverell 

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