- Illyrian, Greek and Thracian tribes (1st millennium BC)
- Roman Macedonia province (146 BC - 7th century AD)
- Roman Dalmatia province (32 BC - 480 AD)
- Roman Illyricum province (27 BC - 69/79 AD)
- Byzantine Empire (395 - 1453 AD)
- Ostrogoth kingdom (469 - 553 AD)
- Bulgarian Empire occupation (9th century AD)
- Albania kingdom (1272-1368)
- Serbian Empire (1346-1371)
- Albanian revolt of 1432-1436
- Albanian-Turkish Wars (1432-1479)
- Ottoman Empire rules Albania (1479-1912)
- Albanian revolts of 1833-1839)
- Uprising of Dervish Cara (1843-1844)
- Albanian revolt of 1847
- Albanian revolt of 1910
- Albania declares independence from Ottoman Empire (1912)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Principality of Albania (1914-1925)
- Albanian Republic (1925-1928)
- Albanian Kingdom (1928-1939)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Italy occupies Albania (1939-1943)
- Germany occupies Albania (1943-1944)
- People's Socialist Repbulic of Albania (1946-1991)
- Republic of Albania (1991 - now)
- Albanian Civil War (1997)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Albania at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Albania.)
