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