- Bura-Asinda culture (3rd century - 13th century AD)
- Mossi kingdoms (11th century - 1896)
- French West Africa (1895-1958)
- French Upper Volta (1919-1932, 1947-1958)
- Republic of Upper Volta (1958-1984)
- Upper Voltan coup d'état (1966)
- Upper Voltan coup d'état (1980)
- Upper Voltan coup d'état (1983)
- Renamed to Burkina Faso (1984)
- Agacher Strip War (1985)
- Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991)
- Burkinabe protests (2011)
- Burkinabe uprising (2014)
- Burkinabe coup d'état (2015)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Burkina Faso at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Burkina Faso.)
