- Linear Pottery culture (5500 - 4500 BC)
- Mondsee group (3800 - 2800 BC)
- Hallstatt culture (1200 -500 BC)
- Le Tene culture (450 - 1st century BC)
- Roman Raetia province (15 - 476 AD)
- Roman Pannonia province (20 - 107 AD)
- Duchy of Bavaria (555 - 1623 AD)
- Carolingian dynasty (613 - 1124 AD)
- Babenberg dynasty (962 - 1246 AD)
- Margraviate of Austria (972 - 1156 AD)
- Duchy of Austria (1156-1453)
- Habsburg Monarchy (1282-1918)
- Holy Roman Empire Archduchy of Austria (1453-1806)
- Ottoman-Habsburg wars (1526-1791)
- Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
- Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
- War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
- Silesian wars (1740-1763)
- War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779)
- War of the First Coalition (1792-1797)
- War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
- Austrian Empire (1804-1867)
- German Confederation (1815-1848, 1850-1866)
- Second Italian War of Independence (1859)
- Austro-Prussian War (1866)
- Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated (1914)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Republic of German-Austria (1918-1919)
- First Austrian Republic (1919-1934)
- Federal State of Austria (1934-1938)
- Austrian Civil War (1934)
- July Putsch (1934)
- Germany annexes Austria (1938)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Allied-occupied Austria (1945-1955)
- Austria gains independence (1955)
- Second Austrian Republic (1955 - now)
- Austria joins the European Union (1995)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Austria at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Austria.)