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