- Kievan Rus (879 - 1240 AD)
- Polotsk principality (987 - 1397 AD)
- Turov principality (10th century - 14th century)
- Grandy Duchy of Lithuania (1236-1765)
- Lithuania kingdom (1251-1263)
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)
- Russian Empire (1721-1917)
- Belarusian People's Republic (1918)
- Republic of Central Lithuania (1920-1922)
- Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1991)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Germany occupies Belarus (1941-1945)
- Holocaust (1941-1945)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Belarus gains independence (1991)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Belarus at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Belarus.)
