In 1790, Governor-General Félix Berenguer de Marquina recommended to the Crown the opening of Manila to world commerce.

Governor-General Éboué welcomes Charles de Gaulle to Chad.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

Suggestions during the early 1980s that the Prince of Wales might become the Governor-General came to nothing due to the constitutional difficulty that would be created if Prince Charles became King.

* 1865 – Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand ( d. 1951 )

On March 17, 1752, the Governor-General of New France, Marquis de la Jonquière died, and was temporarily replaced by Charles le Moyne de Longueuil.

The battle pitted Frankish and Burgundian forces under Austrasian Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by ‘ Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus.

The Act centralised British rule in India by reducing the power of the Governors of Bombay and Madras and by increasing that of the Governor-General, Charles Cornwallis.

Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

* Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning ( 1812 – 1862 ), politician and Governor-General of India

His political career began in the 1880s under Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ), and continued into the 1920s, when he was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

* Canning Town in London is often thought of as being named after George Canning, but was in fact named after his son Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Governor-General of India during the Indian Mutiny.

Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck ( Templemore 10 October 1819 – 29 November 1894 at Enniskerry ), was the last Governor-General of the Province of Canada and the first Governor General of Canada after Canadian Confederation.

The last Governor-General, Charles Robberts Swart, took office as the first State President.

Charles Robberts Swart, the last Governor-General, was sworn in as the first State President.

Charles Robberts Swart, the last Governor-General, left office on 30 April 1961 and Lucas Cornelius Steyn become Officer Administering the Government under a transitional arrangement, until 31 May 1961, when Republic of South Africa was declared and Swart become the first State President of South Africa.

Sir Daniel Charles Williams, GCMG ( born November 4, 1935 ) was a Governor-General of Grenada, from August 8, 1996 until November 18, 2008.

Charles was field marshal of the household brigade in Hanover, and soon after Louise's birth he was made Governor-General of that territory by his brother-in-law George III, king of the United Kingdom and Hanover ( husband of his sister, Queen Charlotte ).

* Charles Bathurst, Governor-General of New Zealand later Viscount Bledisloe of Lydney

* 1935-the title of Viscount Bledisloe of Lydney was created and awarded to Charles Bathurst upon his retirement as Governor-General of New Zealand

In his administration Dalhousie vigorously asserted his control over even minor military affairs, and when Sir Charles Napier ordered certain allowances, given as compensation for the dearness of provisions, to be granted to the sepoys on a system which had not been sanctioned from headquarters, and threatened to repeat the offense, the Governor-General rebuked him to such a degree that Napier resigned his command.

It was created in 1935 for the Conservative politician Charles Bathurst, 1st Baron Bledisloe, upon his retirement as Governor-General of New Zealand.

Sir Charles Hardinge, Viceroy and Governor-General of India from 1910 to 1916.

She became acting Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, after the death of Charles Antrobus and until the appointment of Dr. Frederick Ballantyne as Governor General, on September 2, 2002.

Sir Charles James Antrobus, GCMG, OBE ( May 14, 1933 – June 3, 2002 ) was the Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines from June 1, 1996, until his death.

Charles Robberts Swart ( 5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982 ) served as the last Governor-General of Union of South Africa from 1960 to 1961 and the first State President of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967.

* 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.

* March 2 – Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil ( b. c. 1500 )

* November – Alva resigns as Spanish Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in the Netherlands, and is succeeded by Luis de Requesens, who attempts to pursue a more conciliatory policy.

* Mem de Sá, Governor-General of Brazil ( d. 1572 )

* October 10 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France

In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as George Croghan in the Ohio Country, Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, the Governor-General of New France, ordered Pierre-Joseph Céloron to lead a military expedition through the area.

Korea was controlled by Japan under a Governor-General of Korea until Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces on 15 August 1945, with de jure sovereignty deemed to have passed from the Joseon Dynasty to the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

The first Governor-General appointed by John III was Tomé de Sousa, who in 1549 founded the city of Bahia ( known at the time as São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, Holy Saviour of the Bay of All Saints ).

He was chosen by Éamon de Valera to become Governor-General of the Irish Free State following James McNeill's resignation in November 1932.

In fact in his period in office he performed only one public function: the receipt of the credentials of the French Ambassador in the Council Chamber, Government Buildings, 1933, on behalf of the King, George V. However, de Valera subsequently had that duty moved from the Governor-General to his own post of President of the Executive Council.

On de Valera's instruction, Ua Buachalla did not reside in the official residence of the Governor-General, the Viceregal Lodge ( now called Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland ).

McNeill published his correspondence on the issue with de Valera making de Valera appear foolish, before resigning and leaving de Valera with the task of choosing a new Governor-General, an embarrassing situation for a politician who had tried his best to avoid any association with the office.

The culmination of the 1936 Abdication Crisis in Edward VIII's signing an Instrument of Abdication on 10 December 1936 was seized upon by de Valera as an opportunity to almost completely eliminate the role of the Crown, including the abolition of the office of Governor-General.

Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d ' Isly ( 15 October 1784 – 10 June 1849 ) was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria.

The Duc de Magenta served as Governor-General of Algeria from 1 September 1864, returning at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, during which he led an Alsatian army unit ( although attrition throughout the war led to men from other areas being added to this ).

While agreeing that the situation was " regrettable " de Valera, instead of chastising the ministers, suggested that the Governor-General inform the Executive Council of his social engagements to enable ministers to avoid attending ones he was at.

Beyond the United Kingdom, there are fifteen commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II, a non-resident yet de jure head of state, who is represented by a resident Governor-General who carries out the day to day duties of the monarch in respect to each realm and as such is the de facto head of state in each realm.

Thus the Governor-General hit upon the notion to name the outpost Nueva ( meaning new Ecija ). Both the New and Old Ecija were washed by navigable rivers-the former, by Rio Grande de Pampanga and the latter, by the river Genil.