* 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

During the first russification period, she tried to have her son halt the constraining of the grand principality's autonomy and to recall the unpopular Governor-General Bobrikov from Finland to some other position in Russia itself.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

* June 16, 1904 — Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

** Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

A few years later, Frederick followed her to Russia, where Empress Catherine II appointed him Governor-General of Eastern Finland, with his seat at Viipuri.

On December 1, 1808 he was appointed the first Russian Governor-General of Finland with the title of count, but was so unpopular that he had to resign his post the following year.

He was also briefly Governor-General of Finland in 1813.

Although a Governor-General was installed by the Russians as the highest authority within the Grand Duchy, much of the political system remained the same: Finland was allowed to keep its ” laws, religion and language ” from the Swedish time.

* Governor-General of Finland-For the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland ( 1808-1917 )

For this exploit, immortalized by the Russian poet Baratynsky, he was made Full General and Governor-General of Finland.

The Governor-General was constitutionally the chairman of the Senate of Finland, the government in the autonomous Grand Duchy.

The Senate was headed by the Governor-General of Finland.

In 1898, Tsar Nicholas II appointed Bobrikov as the Governor-General of Finland.

Eugen Schauman ( 10 May 1875 in Kharkov, Russian Empire – 16 June 1904 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire ) was a Finnish nationalist and nobleman who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov.

Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov () ( February 1, 1879 ( Old Style ), Saint Petersburg – May 7, 1940, Moscow ) was a Russian liberal politician and the last Governor-General of Finland.

On September 17 ( New Style from this point on ) Nekrasov was appointed Governor-General of Finland after Mihail Aleksandrovich Stahovich quit from his post.

He was appointed Governor-General of Finland by the Russian Provisional Government on March 20, 1917 after the job was refused by Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov amongst others.

Franz Albert Seyn () ( July 27, 1862-summer of 1918 ) was a Russian general who was Governor-General of Finland between November 24, 1909 and March 16, 1917.

Before he became Governor-General Seyn had been a staff officer in the military district of Finland and an aide to the Governor-General.

In 1922 a continuous registration of the whole indigenous population was instituted by ordinance of the Governor-General, and the periodic compilation of these records was ordered.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India ( 1841 – 44 ).

Soon after, Ellenborough was forced to resign over an entirely separate matter involving the current Governor-General, Lord Canning.

The East India Company and its Governor-General were replaced by a viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the Board of Control was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created India Office, under the Secretary of State for India.

In 2001, Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE – then the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane – was controversially appointed Governor-General of Australia.

An instance of a Governor General exercising his power was during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

He was the last Viceroy of India ( 1947 ) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India ( 1947 – 48 ), from which the modern Republic of India emerged in 1950.

Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad was unable to circumvent the order, and the new Constituent Assembly, elected by the provincial assemblies, met for the first time in July 1955.

In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.

( However, it became very clear in a conversation between Scullin and King George V's Private Secretary, Lord Stamfordham, on 11 November 1930, that this was merely the official reason for the objection, the real reason being that an Australian, no matter how highly regarded personally, was not considered appropriate to be Governor-General.

Bill Hayden ( 1989 – 96 ) was the first Governor-General to have no title, although as a former Federal minister, he has the style " The Honourable ".

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

The current Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, who was sworn in on 5 September 2008, is the first woman appointed to the post.

The limited form of this representation was explained in a 1988 Constitutional Commission report which concluded " the Governor-General is in no sense a delegate of the Queen.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

The Queen chose not to intervene during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, in which Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam, on the basis that it was a matter " clearly placed within the jurisdiction of the Governor-General ".

Section 68, says " command-in-chief of naval and military forces ... is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative ".

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.

The Governor-General was also the head of the armed forces in his or her territory and, because of the Governor-General's control of the military, the post was as much a military appointment as a civil one.

The Governor-General and Barbadian Prime Minister are among those who attend, along with other government dignitaries and the heads of the police and military forces.

In 1803, Lord Richard Wellesley, the Governor-General of India, ordered Robert J. Fraquhar to transfer trading and military operations to Balambangan island near Borneo.

Although he refused to criticise the military publicly, he outlined to Milner the importance of making the camps as habitable as possible, asking the Governor-General of the Cape whether he considered medical provisions to be adequate.

When some inhabitants of Helsinki lodged a complaint with the Turku Court of Appeal in 1902, concerning violence employed by the Russian Governor of Uusimaa to break up a demonstration against military call-ups, the court initiated proceedings against Governor-General Bobrikov.

Koiso was appointed Governor-General of Korea from May 1942 to 1944, during which time he gained the nickname " The Tiger of Korea " for his looks rather than his military prowess.

A Governor-General, or generalguvernör, was appointed by the Swedish monarch as his permanent representative, with both civil and military jurisdiction, over parts of Sweden, from the 17th century to the early 19th century, when constitutional changes made the office obsolete.

A Royal Governor, regardless if whether under a Governor-General or not, held the civil, but not the military, jurisdiction over his county.

It was around this time, during the term of Governor General Fausto Cruzat y Gongora ( July 25, 1690 to December 8, 1701 ), that Governor-General Cruzat established the military outpost he named Nueva Ecija.

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.

Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil ( 1762 – 23 February 1831 ) ( Фаддей Фёдорович Штейнгель, Faddei Fjodorovitš Šteingel ) was a Russian military officer, and the Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824.

Field Marshal William Joseph " Bill " Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ ( 6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970 ) was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.

Under the National Party, the office of Governor-General was held by retired government ministers, who chose not to wear the traditional Windsor uniform composed of a blue military jacket and plumed hat.

The contest runs for 24 hours, from 0800 UTC on the Saturday, preceded by a broadcast including a speech by a dignitary or notable Australian ( such as the Prime Minister of Australia, Governor-General of Australia, or a military leader ) and the reading of the names of amateur radio operators who are known to have died.

All traces of the former Polish autonomy were removed and the kingdom was divided into ten provinces, each with an appointed Russian military governor and all under complete control of the Governor-General at Warsaw.

Napier was a military member of the Governor-General of India's council until 1865, acting for a short while as Governor-General after the sudden death of Lord Elgin.

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.

The Governor-General represents the Queen on ceremonial occasions such as the opening of Parliament, and the presentation of honours and military parades.