Basic timeline of Uganda

This post is a basic timeline of Uganda. There are 15 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (50,000 years ago)
• Bantu Expansion (1000 BC - 0 AD)
• Bunyoro kingdom (13th century - 19th century)
• Bugana kingdom (1300-1894)
• British Protectorate of Uganda (1894-1962)
• Uganda gains independence (1962)
• Military coup d'état (1971)
• Idi Amin dictatorship (1971-1979)
• Uganda-Tanzania War (1978-1979)
• Ugandan Bush War (1980-1986)
• National Resistance Movement (1986 - now)
• Civil War in Uganda (1986-1994)
• Lord's Resistance Army (1987 - now)
• First Congo War (1996-1997)
• Second Congo War (1998-2003)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Uganda at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Uganda.)

Basic timeline of Sudan

This post is a basic timeline of Sudan. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Butana culture (4th millennium - 3rd millennium BC)
• Gash culture (3000 - 1800 BC)
• Jebel Mokram culture (1800 BC)
• Kingdom of Kush (1000 BC - 350 AD)
• Blemmyes (7th century BC - 8th century AD)
• Nobatia Kingdom (400 - 7th century AD)
• Makuria Kingdom (5th century - 16th century AD)
• Alodia (6th century - 1500 AD)
• Rashidun Caliphate invades Sudan (642, 652 AD)
• Daju Kingdom (12th century - 15th century)
• Shilluk Kingdom (15th century - 1861)
• Tunjur Kingdom (15th century - 1650)
• Funj Sultanate (1504-1821)
• Ottoman Empire invades Sudan (1585)
• Taqali Kingdom (1750-1969)
• Turkish Sudan ruled by Ottoman Empire (1871-1898)
• Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan (1896-1899)
• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899-1956)
• First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)
• Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005)
• War in Darfur (2003 - now)
• South Sudan secedes (2011)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Sudan at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Sudan.)

Basic timeline of Algeria

This post is a basic timeline of Algeria. There are 26 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Phoenician traders arrive (900 BC)
• Vandal Kingdom (435 - 534 AD)
• Byzantine Empire occupies Algeria (534 - 8th century AD)
• Conquered by Umayyad Caliphate (8th century AD)
• Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 AD)
• Fatimid Caliphate (909 - 1171 AD)
• Zirid dynasty (972- 1148 AD)
• Berber Revolt (739-743 AD)
• Emirate of Tlemcen (742 - 1066 AD)
• Maghrawa dynasty (970-1069)
• Hammadid dynasty (1014-1152)
• Kingdom of Tlemcen (1235-1554)
• First Spanish conquest of Oran (1509)
• Kingdom of Beni Abbas (1510-1872)
• Kingdom of Kuku (1515-1638)
• Ottoman Algeria (1516-1830)
• Second Spanish conquest of Oran (1732)
• Spanish-Algerian War (1775-1785)
• French Algeria (1830-1962)
• Algerian War for independence (1954-1962)
• Military coup d'état (1965)
• October Riots (1988)
• Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
• Military coup d'état (1992)
• Algerian protests (2010-2012)
• Algerian protests (2019 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Algeria at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Algeria.)

Basic timeline of Kenya

This post is a basic timeline of Kenya. There are 14 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Kansyore culture (5th millennium - 1st millennium BC)
• Urewe culture (6th century BC - 6th century AD)
• Bantu culture arrives (1st millennium AD)
• Vasco da Gama and Portugal arrive (1498)
• Siege of Fort Jesus (1696-1698)
• British East Africa rules Kenya (1895-1920)
• Kenya Colony (1920-1963)
• Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960)
• Kenya gains independence (1963)
• Shifta War (1963-1967)
• Kisumu massacre (1969)
• Attempted coup d'état (1982)
• Wagalla massacre (1984)
• Kenya election crisis (2007-2008)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Kenya at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Kenya.)

Basic timeline of Colombia

This post is a basic timeline of Colombia. There are 25 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Quimbaya culture (~1st century BC)
• Tairona culture (~1st century AD)
• Zenu (200 BC - 1600 AD)
• Muisca Confederation (~1450-1540)
• Alonso de Ojeda and Spain arrive (1499)
• Spain establishes Cartagena city (1533)
• Spanish conquest of the Muisca (1537-1540)
• Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1821)
• Colombia declares independence (1810)
• Simon Bolivar leads independence campaign (1819-1820)
• Battle of Boyaca (1819)
• Gran Colombia (1819-1831)
• Republic of New Granada (1831-1858)
• Granadine Confederation (1858-1863)
• United States of Colombia (1863-1886)
• Repbulic of Colombia (1886 - now)
• Panama secedes from Colombia (1903)
• La Violencia civil war (1948-1958)
• April 19th Movement (1960-1990)
• Columbia conflict (1964 - now)
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964 - now)
• National Liberation Army (1964 - now)
• Palace of Justice siege by M-19 (1985)
• Colombian Constitution of 1991
• Peace agreement with FARC (2016)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Colombia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Colombia.)

Basic timeline of Argentina

This post is a basic timeline of Argentina. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (13,000 years ago)
• Juan Diaz de Solis and Spain arrive (1516)
• Spanish Viceroy of the Rio de la Plata (1776-1814)
• May Revolution (1810)
• Argentine War of Independence (1810-1818)
• United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (1810-1831)
• Argentine Civil Wars (1814-1880)
• Argentina declares independence (1816)
• Argentine Confederation (1831-1861)
• Argentine Constitution of 1853
• Boundary Treaty of 1881
• Beagle conflict (1904-1984)
• Tragic Week (1919)
• September Revolution coup d'état (1930)
• Military coup d'état (1943)
• Liberating Revolution coup d'état (1955)
• Argentine Navy revolt (1963)
• Argentine Revolution coup d'état (1966)
• Dirty Wat (1974-1983)
• National Reorganization Process military dictatorship (1976-1983)
• Falklands War (1982)
• Argentine Great Depression (1998-2002)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Argentina at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Argentina.)

Basic timeline of North Korea

This post is a basic timeline of North Korea. There are 21 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Japan occupies Korea (1910-1945)
• Soviet Union declares war on Japan (1945)
• Soviet Union invades Korea (1945)
• United States and Soviet Union agree on 38th parallel (1945)
• Japan surrenders (1945)
• Soviet Union occupies North Korea (1945-1950)
• United States occupies South Korea (1945-1950)
• Kim Il-sung is Premier of North Korea (1948-1972)
• Korean War begins (1950)
• Korean Armistice Agreement ceasefire (1953)
• Kim Il-sung is President of North Korea (1972-1994)
• Rangoon bombing (1983)
• Kim John-il (1997-2011)
• Inter-Korean summit meeting (2000)
• Inter-Korean summit meeting (2007)
• North Korea agrees to end nuclear testing (2007)
• North Korea continues nuclear testing (2009)
• North Korea sinks ROKS Cheonan (2010)
• Kim Jong-un is President of North Korea (2011)
• Inter-Korean summit meetings (2018)
• North Korea agrees to denuclearize (2018)

Basic timeline of South Korea

This post is a basic timeline of South Korea. There are 37 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Gojoseon states (2333 BC - 108 BC)
• Gija Joseon period (1120 - 194 BC)
• Jin state (4th century - 2nd century BC)
• Dongye culture (3rd century BC - 5th century AD)
• Wiman Joseon (194 - 108 BC)
• Buyeo kingdom (2nd century BC - 494 AD)
• Okjeo state (2nd century BC - 5th century AD)
• Mahan confederacy (1st century BC - 5th century AD)
• Jinhan confederacy (1st century BC - 4th century AD)
• Beyeonhan confederacy (1st century BC - 4th century AD)
• Silla kingdom (57 BC - 935 AD)
• Goguryeo kingdom (37 BC - 668 AD)
• Baekje kingdom (18 BC - 660 AD)
• Gaya confederacy (42 - 562 AD)
• Goguryeo-Wei War (244-245 AD)
• Goguryeo-Tang War (645-668 AD)
• Silla-Tang War (668-676 AD)
• Balhae kingdom (698 - 926 AD)
• Goryeo kingdom (918-1392 AD)
• Mongols invade Korea (1231-1259)
• Joseon kingdom (1392-1897)
• Japan invades Korea (1592-1598)
• Later Jin invades Korea (1627)
• Qing invades Korea (1636-1637)
• France invades Korea (1866)
• Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894-1895)
• Gabo Reform (1894-1896)
• Korean Empire (1897-1910)
• Gwangmu Reform (1897-1907)
• Japan annexes Korea (1910-1945)
• March 1st Movement (1919)
• North Korea and South Korea split (1945)
• Korean War begins (1950)
• Korean War cease fire (1953)
• Military coup d'état (1961)
• Inter-Korean summit meeting (2000)
• Inter-Korean summit meeting (2007)
• Inter-Korean summit meetings (2018)

Basic timeline of Myanmar

This post is a basic timeline of Myanmar. There are 24 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (13,000 years ago)
• Thaton kingdom (4th century BC - 1057 AD)
• Pyu city-states (2nd century BC - 1050 AD)
• Sri Ksetra kingdom (3rd century - 1050 AD)
• Pagan kingdom (840 - 1297 AD)
• First Mongol invasion of Burma (1277-1287)
• Hanthawaddy Pegu kingdom (1287-1552)
• Ava kingdom (1365-1555)
• Mrauk U kingdom (1429-1785)
• Toungoo dynasty (1510-1752)
• Burmese-Siamese wars (16th century - 19th century)
• Restored Hanthawaddy Pegu kingdom (1740-1757)
• Sino-Burmese War (1765-1769)
• Konbaung dynasty (1752-1885)
• Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War (1752-1757)
• Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824-1885)
• British rules Burma (1824-1948)
• Burma Independence Act (1947)
• Myanmar civil war (1948 - now)
• Burmese coup d'état (1962)
• People Power Uprising (1988)
• State Peace and Development Council military rule (1988-2011)
• Saffron Revolution (2007-2008)
• Myanmar coup d'état (2021)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Myanmar at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Myanmar.)

Basic timeline of South Africa

This post is a basic timeline of South Africa. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (125,000 years ago)
• Bantu culture arrives (300 AD)
• Bartolomeu Dias and Portugal arrive (1488)
• Dutch East India company arrives at Cape Town (1652)
• Xhosa Wars (1779-1879)
• British invasion of Cape Colony (1795)
• British Cape Colony (1806-1910)
• Zulu Kingdom (1816-1897)
• Battle of Blood River (1838)
• Natalia Republic (1839-1843)
• South African Republic (1852-1902)
• Orange Free State (1854-1902)
• Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
• First Boer War (1880-1881)
• Second Boer War (1899-1902)
• Union of South Africa (1910-1961)
• Maritz rebellion (1914-1915)
• Apartheid era (1948-1994)
• South African Border War (1966-1990)
• Soweto uprising (1976)
• Convention for a Democratic South Africa (1990-1993)
• Nelson Mandela is elected President (1994-1999)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of South Africa at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of South Africa.)

Basic timeline of Tanzania

This post is a basic timeline of Tanzania. There are 13 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Elmenteitan culture (3300-1200 BC)
• Savanna Pastoral Neolithic culture (3000 BC - 700 AD)
• Bantu culture arrives (100 BC)
• Vasco da Gama and Portugal arrive (1498)
• German East Africa (1885-1918)
• Maji Maji Rebellion (1905-1907)
• Battle of Tanga (1914)
• United Kingdom occupies Tanganyika (1916-1961)
• Tanganyika Africa National Union (1954-1977)
• Tanganyika gains independence (1961)
• Renamed to Tanzania (1964)
• Zanzibar Revolution (1964)
• U.S. embassy bombings (1998)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Tanzania at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Tanzania.)

Basic timeline of Thailand

This post is a basic timeline of Thailand. There are 33 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Funan states (68 - 627 AD)
• Dvaravati culture (6th century - 11th century AD)
• Ngoenyang (638 - 1292 AD)
• Lavo Kingdom (648-1388)
• Hariphunchai (8th century - 1292 AD)
• Khmer Empire (802 - 1431 AD)
• Sukhothai Kingdom (1238-1438)
• Lan Na (1292-1775)
• Ayutthaya Kingdom (1350-1767)
• Burmese-Siamese wars (16th century - 19th century)
• Thonburi Kingdom (1767-1782)
• Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782-1932)
• Chakri dynasty (1782 - now)
• Battle of Rach Ga m-Xoai Mut (1785)
• First Siamese-Vietnamese War (1831-1834)
• Second Siamese Vietnamese War (1841-1845)
• Franco-Siamese War (1893)
• Palace Revolt of 1912
• Siamese revolution of 1932
• Boworadet rebellion (1933)
• Songsuradet rebellion (1939)
• Renamed from Siam to Thailand (1939)
• Franco-Thai War (1940-1941)
• Thai cultural mandates (1939-1942)
• Japanese invasion of Thailand (1941)
• Thai popular uprising (1973)
• October 6 massacre (1976)
• Return to military rule (1976)
• Vietnamese border raids (1979-1989)
• Black May (1992)
• Constitutional Drafting Assembly (1997)
• Military coup d'état (2014)
• Thai protests (2020 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Thailand at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Thailand.)

List of history posts

This post is a list of history posts for this blog. There are 264 posts listed below either chronologically by post date or alphabetically by country.

    Historical civilizations

1. Egypt (ancient)
2. Greece (ancient)
3. Mesopotamia
4. Rome (ancient)

    Historical people

1. Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1812)
2. Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
3. Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
4. Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
5. King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)
6. Gandhi, Mahatma (1869-1948)
7. Mandela, Nelson (1918-2013)
8. Washington, George (1732-1799)

    Miscellaneous United States

1. Basic timeline of Seattle
2. List of United States presidents
3. List of the Thirteen Colonies
4. List of United States presidents (images)
5. Basic timeline of Washington state
6. Basic timeline of Ohio
7. Basic timeline of California
8. Basic timeline of Texas
9. Basic timeline of Alaska
10. Collection of facts about the attack on Pearl Harbor
11. Collection of facts about the American Civil War

    Miscellaneous Europe

1. List of major Greek city-states
2. Collection of facts about D-Day
3. Collection of facts about the French Revolution
4. Collection of facts about the Protestant Reformation
5. Collection of facts about the Berlin Wall
6. List of Napoleonic Wars
7. Collection of facts about the Russian Revolution
8. Collection of facts about World War I
9. Collection of facts about World War II
10. Collection of facts about the Hundred Years' War
11. Collection of facts about the Yugoslav Wars
12. List of countries previously in the Soviet Union
13. List of kingdoms in the Heptarchy (Anglo-Saxon England)
14. List of leaders of the Soviet Union
15. List of emperors in the Julio-Claudian dynasty

    Miscellaneous Asia / Middle East

1. Collection of facts about the Partition of India
2. Collection of facts about the Korean War
3. Collection of facts about the Mongol Empire
4. Collection of facts about Tiananmen Square massacre
5. Collection of facts about the Code of Hammurabi
6. Collection of facts about the Crusades in the Holy Land
7. Collection of facts about the Vietnam War
8. Collection of commodities exchanged on the Silk Road
9. Collection of facts about the Boxer Rebellion
10. Collection of facts about the Taiping Rebellion
11. Collection of facts about the First Opium War
12. Collection of facts about the Second Opium War

    Miscellaneous history

1. List of cradles of civilization
2. Basic timeline of Earth
3. List of person timeline posts
4. Basic timeline of the Scientific Revolution
5. Collection of country name changes: 1900-2023
6. List of history level 3 vital articles (non-region/subject) on Wikipedia
7. List of late-modern history level 4 vital articles on Wikipedia
8. List of archaeological periods
9. Collection of behavioral modernity characteristics

    Technology history (non-computers)

1. Basic timeline of communication and media
2. Basic timeline of paper
3. Basic timeline of printing
4. Basic timeline of the Industrial Revolution
5. Basic timeline of photography
6. Basic timeline of aviation
7. Basic timeline of the telephone
8. Basic timeline of automobiles
9. Basic timeline of television technology

    Countries (196)

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• East Timor
• Ecuador
• Egypt (modern)
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kosovo
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• Norway
• North Macedonia
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Republic of Congo
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Samoa
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• San Marino
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Korea
• South Sudan
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Basic timeline of Turkey

This post is a basic timeline of Turkey. There are 32 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Hittites (1680 - 1178 BC)
• Lydia (1200 - 546 BC)
• Achaemenid Empire (550 - 330 BC)
• Odrysian kingdom (480 - 30 BC)
• Alexander the Great and Macedonia invade Turkey (334 - 330 BC)
• Kingdom of Pontus (281 BC - 62 AD)
• Byzantine Empire (395 - 1453 AD)
• Byzantine-Sasanian War (602-628 AD)
• Komnenian restoration (1081-1185)
• Sack of Constantinople (1204)
• Byzantine-Ottoman Wars (1265-1479)
• Seljuk dynasty (10th century - 1307)
• Ottoman Empire (1299-1922)
• Ottoman-Hungarian Wars (1366-1526)
• Fall of Constantinople (1453)
• Sultanate of Women (1533-1656)
• Long Turkish War (1593-1606)
• Cretan War (1645-1669)
• Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
• Ottoman coup d'état (1913)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Gallipoli campaign (1915-1916)
• Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
• Arab Revolt (1916-1918)
• Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923)
• Republic of Turkey (1922 - now)
• Neutrality in World War II (1939-1945)
• First Turkish coup d'état (1960)
• Second Turkish coup d'état (1971)
• Invasion of  Cyprus (1974)
• Kurdish-Turkish conflict (1978 - now)
• Third Turkish coup d'état (1980)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Turkey at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Turkey.)

Basic timeline of Iran

This post is a basic timeline of Iran. There are 46 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Kura-Araxes culture (3400 - 2000 BC)
• Assyria (2500 - 609 BC)
• Akkadian Empire (2334 - 2154 BC)
• Mannaeans (10th century - 7th century BC)
• Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 - 609 BC)
• Urartu kingdom (860 - 590 BC)
• Median dynasty (678-549 BC)
• Achaemenid Empire (550 - 330 BC)
• Greco-Persian Wars (499 - 449 BC)
• Zoroastrianism established (5th century BC)
• Alexander the Great and Macedonia conquer Persian Empire (331 BC)
• Roman-Parthian Wars (54 BC - 217 AD)
• Parthian Empire (247 - 224 AD)
• Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD)
• Byzantine-Sasanian War (602 - 628 AD)
• Islamic conquest of Persia (633 - 654 AD)
• Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750 AD)
• Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 AD)
• Islamic Golden Age (8th century - 14th century AD)
• Samanid Empire (819 - 999 AD)
• Ghaznavid Empire (977 - 1186 AD)
• Seljuk Empire (1037-1194)
• Anushtegin dynasty (1077-1260)
• Mongol conquest of Central Asia (1216-1222)
• Ilkhanate (1256-1335)
• Timurid Empire (1370-1507)
• Safavid dynasty (1501-1736)
• Afsharid dynasty (1736-1796)
• Zand dynasty (1751-1794)
• Qajar dynasty (1796-1925)
• First Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)
• Second Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)
• Great Persian famine (1870-1872)
• Persian Cossack Brigade (1879-1921)
• Persian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911)
• Persian coup d'état (1921)
• Pahlavi Iran (1925-1979)
• Germany invades Iran (1941)
• Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (1941)
• Iranian coup d'état (1953)
• Iranian Revolution (1978-1979)
• Iran hostage crisis (1979)
• Ruhollah Khomeini is Supreme Leader (1979-1989)
• Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
• Ali Khamenei is Supreme Leader (1989 - now)
• Iranian Green Movement (2009)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Iran at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Iran.)

Basic timeline of Vietnam

This post is a basic timeline of Vietnam. There are 38 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (20,000 years ago)
• Hong Bang dynasty (2879 - 258 BC)
• Phung Nguyen culture (2000 - 1500 BC)
• Dong Son culture (1000 BC - 1st century AD)
• Lac Viet (700 BC - 100 AD)
• Au Lac (257 - 180 BC)
• Trieu dynasty (204 - 111 BC)
• First Era of Northern Domination (111 BC - 40 AD)
• Trung Sisters Rebellion (40 - 43 AD)
• Second Era of Northern Domination (43 - 544 AD)
• Lam Ap (192-629 AD)
• Early Ly dynasty (544 - 602 AD)
• Khmer Empire (802-1431 AD)
• Third Era of Northern Domination (602 - 905 AD)
• Ngo dynasty (939 - 965 AD)
• Dinh dynasty (968 - 980 AD)
• Ly dynasty (1009-1225)
• Tran dynasty (1225-1400)
• Ho dynasty (1400-1407)
• Fourth Era of Northern Domination (1407-1427)
• Le dynasty (1428-1789)
• Mac dynasty (1527-1677)
• Le-Mac War (1533-1592)
• Northern and Southern dynasties (1533-1592)
• Trinh Viceroy (1545-1787)
• Nguyen lords (1558-1777)
• Trinh-Nguyen War (17th century)
• Tay Son wars (1771-1802)
• Tay Son dynasty (1778-1802)
• Nguyen dynasty (1802-1945)
• France and Spain invade Vietnam (1858-1862)
• French Indochina (1887-1954)
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945-1976)
• First Indochina War (1946-1954)
• Republic of Vietnam (1955-1975)
• Vietnam War (1955-1975)
• Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1975 - now)
• Cambodian-Vietnamese War (1978-1989)

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Basic timeline of the Democratic Republic of Congo

This post is a basic timeline of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are 18 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (90,000 years ago)
• Kingdom of Kongo (1390-1914)
• Atlantic slave trade (1500-1850)
• Kingdom of Luba (1585-1889)
• Kingdom of Lunda (1665-1887)
• King Leopold II rules Congo Free State (1885-1908)
• Belgian occupation (1908-1960)
• Democratic Republic of Congo gains independence (1960)
• Congo Crisis (1960-1965)
• Zaire (1971-1997)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1995 - now)
• First Congo War (1996-1997)
• Renamed to Democratic Republic of Congo (1997)
• Second Congo War (1998-2003)
• Ituri conflict (1999-2003)
• Kivu conflict (2004 - now)
• M23 rebellion (2012-2013)
• Kamwina Nsapu rebellion (2016 - now)

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Basic timeline of modern Egypt

This post is a basic timeline of modern Egypt. There are 23 events listed below chronology. Source: Wikipedia

• Alexander the Great and Macedonia conquer Egypt (332 BC)
• Ptolemaic Kingdom (305 - 30 BC)
• Roman Egypt (30 BC - 641 AD)
• Sasanian Egypt (618 - 628 AD)
• Muslim conquest of Egypt (639 - 646 AD)
• Tulunids (868 - 905 AD)
• Fatimid Caliphate (909 - 1171 AD)
• Ikhshidid dynasty (935 - 969 AD)
• Ayyubid dynasty (1170-1260)
• Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
• Ottoman Empire occupation (1517-1867)
• Suez Canal construction (1859-1869)
• Khedivate of Egypt (1867-1914)
• Anglo-Egyptian War (1882)
• Britain occupies Egypt (1882-1956)
• Egyptian Revolution (1952)
• Republic of Egypt (1953)
• Britain withdraws from Suez Canal (1956)
• Six Day War (1967)
• Hosni Mubarak is President (1981-2011)
• Egypt-Israel peace treaty (1979-1980)
• Egyptian Revolution of 2011
• Attempted coup d'état (2013)

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Basic timeline of Italy

This post is a basic timeline of Italy. There are 32 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (48,000 years ago)
• Remedello culture (4th - 3rd millennium BC)
• Nuragic civilization (18th century - 6th century AD)
• Proto-Villanovan culture (12th century - 10 century BC)
• Etruscan civilization (900 - 27 BC)
• Roman Kingdom (753 - 509 BC)
• Roman Republic (509 - 27 BC)
• Gallic Wars (58 - 50 BC)
• Roman Empire (27 BC - 476 AD)
• Gothic War (535 - 554 AD)
• Lombards (568-774 AD)
• Republic of Venice (697-1797)
• Papal States (754 - 1870 AD)
• Holy Roman Empire (800 - 1806 AD)
• Republic of Genoa (11th century - 1797)
• Kingdom of Sicily (1130-1816)
• Battle of Legnano (1176)
• Italian Renaissance (14th century - 17th century)
• Kingdom of Sardinia (1324-1861)
• Duchy of Milan (1395-1796)
• Italian Wars (1494-1559)
• Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1805-1814)
• Italian Resurgence and unification (1848-1871)
• Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• March on Rome (1922)
• Benito Mussolini is dictator (1922-1943)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Italian Civil War (1943-1945)
• Italian Republic (1946 - now)
• Joins European Economic Community (1958)
• Years of Lead (1968-1988)

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Basic timeline of Germany

This post is a basic timeline of Germany. There are 35 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Corded Ware culture (2900 - 2350 BC)
• Bell Beaker culture (2800 - 1800 BC)
• Unetice culture (2300 - 1680 BC)
• Tumulus culture (1600 - 1200 BC)
• Urnfield culture (1300 - 750 BC)
• Hallstatt culture (1200 - 500 BC)
• Battle of Teutoburg Forest (9 AD)
• Germania Superior Roman province (83 - 475 AD)
• Francia (481 - 843 AD)
• Holy Roman Empire (800 - 1806 AD)
• East Francia (843 - 962 AD)
• Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
• Protestant Reformation (1517)
• Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
• Nine Years War (1688-1697)
• Prussia Kingdom (1701-1918)
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
• German Confederation (1815-1866)
• German revolutions of 1848-1849
• Austro-Prussian War (1866)
• North German Confederation (1867-1871)
• German Empire (1871-1918)
• German colonial empire (1884-1920)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• German Revolution of 1918-1919
• Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
• Nazi Party (1920-1945)
• Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor (1933)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Invasion of Russia (1941)
• Holocaust (1941-1945)
• West Germany (1949-1989)
• East Germany ruled by Soviet Union (1949-1989)
• Berlin Wall opens (1989)
• West Germany unites with East Germany (1989)

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Basic timeline of Spain

This post is a basic timeline of Spain. There are 27 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Iberian culture (~6th century BC)
• Roman Republic rules Hispania (218 BC - 5th century AD)
• Visigoth Kingdom (418 - 721 AD)
• Umayyad conquest of Hispania (711 AD)
• Battle of Guadalete (711 AD)
• Reconquista (711-1492 AD)
• Vikings invasion (844 AD)
• Hungarian invasion (942 AD)
• War of Castilian Succession (1475-1479)
• Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834)
• Spanish Empire (1492-1976)
• Italian Wars (1494-1559)
• Habsburg Spain (1516-1700)
• Eighty Years War (1568-1648)
• Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
• Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659)
• War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
• Peninsula War (1807-1814)
• Spanish Constitution of 1812
• Ten Years War (1868-1878)
• First Spanish Republic (1873-1874)
• Bourbon Restoration (1874-1931)
• Spanish-American War (1898)
• Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)
• Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
• Francisco Franco dictatorship (1936-1975)
• Joins European Economic Community (1986)

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Basic timeline of the United Kingdom

This post is a basic timeline of the United Kingdom. There are 40 events listed below chronologically.

• First humans (13,000 years ago)
• Roman rule of Britain (43 - 410 AD)
• Anglo-Saxons (450-1066 AD)
• Battle of Deorham (577)
• Northumbria (654 - 954 AD)
• Vikings arrive (787 AD)
• Kingdom of England (924 - 1707 AD)
• Norman Conquest (11th century)
• Angevins (12th - 13th century)
• Magna Carta peace treaty (1215)
• Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
• Black Death arrives (1348)
• War of the Roses (1455-1487)
• Tudor period (1485-1603)
• Elizabethan era (1558-1603)
• East India Company (1600-1874)
• Jamestown settlement in America (1607)
• English Civil War (1642-1651)
• Commonwealth of England (1649-1660)
• Protectorate government (1653-1659)
• Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
• Great Britain established (1707)
• Thirteen Colonies (1707-1775)
• South Sea Company (1711-1853)
• Seven Years War (1754-1763)
• American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
• United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
• War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802)
• Ireland is annexed (1801)
• War of 1812 (1812-1815)
• Victorian era (1837-1901)
• First Boer War (1880-1881)
• Second Boer War (1899-1902)
• Edwardian era (1901-1914)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Ireland gains independence (1922)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Joins European Economic Community (1973)
• European Union referendum (2016)
• Leaves the European Union (2020)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of the United Kingdom at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of the United Kingdom.)

Sources

Wikipedia: History of England, History of United Kingdom

Basic timeline of Russia

This post is a basic timeline of Russia. There are 36 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (45,000 years ago)
• Bosporan Kingdom (480 - 107 BC)
• Khazars (650-969 AD)
• Rus Khaganate (830-899 AD)
• Kievan Rus (879-1240 AD)
• Novgorod Republic (1136-1478)
• Mongol invades Russia (1223-1480)
• Grand Duchy of Moscow (1263-1547)
• Tsardom of Russia (1547-1721)
• Russo-Persian War (1722-1723)
• Livonian War (1558-1583)
• Conquest of Siberia (1580 - 17th century)
• Time of Troubles (1598-1613)
• First Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
• Russian Empire (1721-1917)
• Seven Years War (1756-1763)
• Anglo-Russian War (1807-1812)
• Napoleon invades Russia (1812)
• Decembrist Revolt (1825)
• Second Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)
• Crimean War (1853-1856)
• Serfdom is abolished (1861)
• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• First Russian Revolution (1905-1907)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Second Russian Revolution (1917)
• Russian Civil War (1917-1923)
• Soviet Union (1922-1991)
• Great Purge (1936-1938)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Germany invades Soviet Union (1941)
• Cold War (1947-1991)
• Dissolution of Soviet Union (1988-1991)
• Russian Federation (1991 - now)
• Vladimir Putin becomes President (2000)
• Annexation of Crimean peninsula (2014)

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Basic timeline of the Philippines

This post is a basic timeline of the Philippines. There are 33 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (67,000 years ago)
• Austronesians reach Philippines (3000 BC)
• Tondo settlement (~900 - 1589 AD)
• Ma-i (971-1339 AD)
• Butuan (989-1521 AD)
• Namayan confederation (1175-1571)
• Madja-as confederation (1250-1569)
• Cebu (1300-1565)
• Bruneian Empire (1368-1888)
• Invasion of Majapahit (14th century)
• Sulu Sultanate (1405-1915)
• Caboloan (1406-1576)
• Maynila kingdom (1500-1571)
• Maguindanao Sultanate (1520-1905)
• Ferdinand Magellan and Spain arrive (1521)
• Battle of Mactan (1521)
• Spanish-Moro conflict (1565-1898)
• Spain establishes city of Manila (1579)
• Britain temporarily occupies Manila (1762)
• Philippine Revolution (1896-1899)
• Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
• Moro Rebellion (1899-1913)
• First Philippine Republic (1899-1901)
• Insular Government ruled by United States (1901-1935)
• Philippine Autonomy Act signed by United States (1916)
• Commonwealth of Philippines (1935-1946)
• Japanese occupation of Philippines (1942-1945)
• Second Philippine Republic (1943-1945)
• Philippines gains independence (1946)
• Third Philippine Republic (1946-1973)
• Martial law under Juan Ponce Enrile (1972-1981)
• Fourth Philippine Republic (1981-1986)
• Fifth Philippine Republic (1986 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Philippines at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Philippines.)

Basic timeline of Bangladesh

This post is a basic timeline of Bangladesh. There are 31 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (100,000 - 60,000 years ago)
• Anga kingdom (~1100 - 500 BC)
• Vanga kingdom (5th century - 2nd century BC)
• Gangaridai Empire (4th century - 1st century BC)
• Maurya Empire (322 - 184 BC)
• Chandra dynasty (327 - 1050 AD)
• Gauda Kingdom (4th century - 626 AD)
• Pala Empire (8th century - 12th century AD)
• Sena dynasty (1070-1230)
• Deva dynasty (12th century - 13th century)
• Muhammad Bakhiyar Khilji establishes Muslim rule (1204)
• Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1342-1415)
• Bengal Sultanate (1352-1576)
• Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494-1538)
• Portugal settles in Bangladesh (1517)
• Mughal Empire (1526-1857)
• Bengal Subah (1576-1765)
• Battle of Plassey (1757)
• First Partition of Bengal (1905)
• Second Partition of Bengal (1947)
• Britain rules Pakistan (1947-1971)
• East Bengal established (1947-1955)
• Leaves Muslim League (1952)
• East Pakistan established (1955-1971)
• Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence (1971)
• Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)
• Bangladesh genocide (1971)
• Pakistani Instrument of Surrender (1971)
• Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict (1977-1997)
• Mass Uprising in Bangladesh (1990)
• Military coup d'état attempt (1996)

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Basic timeline of Nigeria

This post is a basic timeline of Nigeria. There are 23 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (100,000 years ago)
• Nok culture (1500 BC - 500 AD)
• Kanem-Bornu Empire (700-1380 AD)
• Hausa Kingdoms (9th century - 19th century AD)
• Kingdom of Benin (1180-1897)
• Oyo Empire (1300-1896)
• Atlantic slave trade begins (15th century)
• Songhai Empire (1464-1591)
• Aro-Ibibio War (1630-1720)
• Aro Confederacy (1690-1902)
• Britain annexes Nigeria (1865)
• Britain forms Northern and Southern Nigeria Protectorates (1901)
• First Nigerian Republic (1963-1966)
• Military coup d'état (1966)
• Anti-Igbo massacre (1966)
• Biafra secedes from Nigeria (1967-1970)
• Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
• Second Nigerian Republic (1979-1983)
• Military coup d'état (1983)
• Third Nigerian Republic planned and fails (1993)
• Sani Abacha is head of state (1993-1998)
• Fourth Nigerian Republic (1999 - now)
• Conflict in the Niger Delta (2003 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Nigeria at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Nigeria.)

Basic timeline of Japan

This post is a basic timeline of Japan. There are 42 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (30,000 years ago)
• Jomon period (14,000 - 300 BC)
• Yayoi period (300 BC - 300 AD)
• Kofun period (250-538 AD)
• Asuka period (538-719 AD)
• Nara period (710-794 AD)
• Imperial House of Japan (660 BC - now)
• Heian period (794-1185 AD)
• Genpei War (1180-1185)
• Kamakura shogunate (1192-1333)
• Mongol invasions (13th century)
• Muromachi period (1336-1573)
• Sengoku period (1467-1615)
• Portugal arrives (1543)
• Nanban trade (1543-1614)
• Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600)
• Invasion of Korea (1592-1598)
• Edo period (1600-1868)
• Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
• Boshin War (1868-1869)
• Perry Expedition by United States (1853-1854)
• Meiji Restoration (1868)
• Meiji period (1868-1912)
• Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894-1895)
• First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Korea is annexed to Japan (1910)
• Taisho period (1912-1926)
• Showa period (1926-1989)
• Invasion of Manchuria, China (1931-1932)
• Attempted coup d'état (1936)
• Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks (1945)
• Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
• Constitution of Japan (1947)
• Korean War (1950-1953)
• Japanese asset bubble (1986-1989)
• Heisei period (1989-2019)
• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011)
• Reiwa period (2019 - now)

Basic timeline of Pakistan

This post is a basic timeline of Pakistan. There are 28 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Indus Valley Civilization (3300-1300 BC)
• Vedic period (1500-500 BC)
• Battle of the Ten Kings (14th century BC)
• Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC)
• Alexander the Great invades Pakistan (327-325 BC)
• Maurya Empire (322-180 BC)
• Indo-Greek Kingdom (180 BC - 10 AD)
• Indo-Scythian Kingdom (150 BC - 400 AD)
• Indo-Parthian Kingdom (19-226 AD)
• Kushan Empire (30-375 AD)
• Sassanid Empire (224-651 AD)
• Sassanid invasion (3rd century AD)
• Gupta Empire (320-600 AD)
• Alchon Huns (370-670 AD)
• Rai dynasty (489-632 AD)
• Turk Shahis (665-870 AD)
• Hindu Shahi (850-1026 AD)
• Ghaznavid dynasty (977-1186)
• Delta Sultanate (1206-1526)
• Mongol invasion (13th century)
• Samma dynasty (1336-1524)
• Mughal Empire (1526-1857)
• Maratha Empire (1674-1818)
• Durrani Empire (1747-1842)
• Sikh Empire (1799-1849)
• British Raj rules Pakistan (1843)
• All-India Muslim League founded (1906)
• Pakistan gains independence (1947)
• Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)

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Basic timeline of Ethiopia

This post is a basic timeline of Ethiopia. There are 28 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (195,000 years ago)
• Aksum kingdom (800 BC - 960 AD)
• D'mt kingdom (960 BC - 400 BC)
• Zagwe dynasty (900 AD -1137 AD)
• Ethiopian Empire (1270-1974)
• Adal Sultanate (1415-1577)
• Ethiopian-Adal War (1529-1543)
• Sultanate of Aussa (1734-1936)
• Tewodros II unites Ethiopia (1855)
• Ethiopian-Egyptian War (1874-1876)
• First Italo-Ethiopia War (1894-1896)
• Italy recognizes Ethiopian independence (1896)
• Italy reoccupies Ethiopia (1935-1941)
• Battle of Adwa (1936)
• Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia (1941-1943)
• Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991)
• Oromo Liberation Front (1973 - now)
• Haile Selassie overthrown (1974)
• Derg military control (1974-1987)
• Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)
• Tigray People's Liberation Front (1975-2021)
• Ethiopian Red Terror (1976-1977)
• Ethio-Somali War (1977-1978)
• Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (1988-2019)
• Transitional Government of Ethiopia (1991-1995)
• Constitution of Ethiopia (1995)
• Meles Zenawi is Prime Minister (1995-2012)
• Peace agreement signed with Eritrea (2018)
• Tigray War (2020 - now)

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Basic timeline of Mexico

This post is a basic timeline of Mexico. There are 25 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (40,000 years ago)
• Olmec civilization (1500 BC - 400 BC)
• Maya civilization (300 BC - 1511 AD)
• Teotihuacan civilization (100 BC - 8th century AD)
• Toltec Empire (674-947 AD)
• Spanish Reconquista (711-1492)
• Aztec Empire (1324-1521 AD)
• New Spain rules Mexico (1521-1821)
• Chichimeca War (1550-1590)
• War of Independence (1810-1821)
• First Mexican Empire (1821-1823)
• First Mexican Republic (1824-1835)
• Centralist Republic of Mexico (1835-1846)
• Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
• Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
• Constitution of 1857
• War of Reform (1857-1861)
• Second Mexican Empire (1863-1867)
• Second Mexican Empire (1867-1876)
• Porfiriato Era (1876-1911)
• Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)
• Mexican Constitution of 1917
• Cristero War (1926-1929)
• Mexican Miracle (1940-1970)
• Mexican drug war (2006 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Mexico at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Mexico.)