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