- Hallstatt culture (1200 - 500 BC)
- La Tene culture (450 BC - 1st century BC)
- Illyrian Wars (229 - 228 BC)
- Roman Dalmatia province (32 BC - 480 AD)
- Roman Illyricum province (27 BC - 69/79 AD)
- Roman Pannonia province (20 - 107 AD)
- Byzantine Empire (395 - 1453 AD)
- Ostrogoth occupation (5th century AD)
- Pannonian Avars (567 - 9th century AD)
- Duchy of Croatia (7th century - 925 AD)
- Republic of Venice (697 - 1797 AD)
- Kingdom of Croatia (925 - 1102 AD)
- Croatian-Bulgarian battle of 926
- Croatia-Hungary union (1102-1526)
- Ragusa Republic (1358-1808)
- Ottoman Budin Eyalet (1541-1686)
- Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia (1527-1868)
- Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet (1580-1867)
- Ottoman Kanije Eyalet (1600-1690)
- Kingdom of Slavonia (1699-1868)
- French Illyrian Provinces (1809-1814)
- Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia (1815-1918)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1941)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Germany occupies Croatia (1941-1945)
- Yugoslavia People's Repbulic of Croatia (1946-1963)
- Yugoslavia Socialist Republic of Croatia (1963-1990)
- Croatia declares independence (1991)
- Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Croatia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Croatia.)
