- Las Vegas culture (8000 - 4600 BC)
- Valdivia culture (3500 - 1500 BC)
- Machalilla culture (1500 - 1100 BC)
- Cotocollao culture (1500 - 500 BC)
- Manteno-Huancavilca civilization (600 - 1530 AD)
- Inca Empire (1438-1533)
- Inca Civil War (1529-1531)
- Francisco Pizarro and Spain arrive (1532)
- Battle of Cajamarca (1532)
- Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru (1542-1824)
- Spanish Real Audiencia of Quito (1563-1822)
- Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1821)
- Ecuadorian War of Independence (1820-1822)
- Gran Colombia (1819-1831)
- Battle of Pichincha (1822)
- Gran Colombia-Peru War (1828-1829)
- Ecuador gains independence (1830)
- Liberal Revolution (1895)
- Coup d'état (1925)
- Ecuadorian-Peruvian War (1941)
- Paquisha War (1981)
- Ecuadorian economic crisis (1998-1999)
- Coup d'état (2000)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Ecuador at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Ecuador.)
