- Illyrian and Celtic tribes (1st millennium BC)
- 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)
- Gothic War (535 - 554 AD)
- Banate of Bosnia (1154-1377)
- Bosnia kingdom (1377-1463)
- Duchy of Saint Sava (1448-1482)
- Ottoman Sanjak of Bosnia (1463-1878)
- Austro-Hungary occupies Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1918)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Yugoslavia kingdom (1918-1941)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1992)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina gains independence (1992)
- Bosnian War (1992-1995)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina riots (2014)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.)