- Bantu culture arrives (14th century)
- Fang culture (Pre-European era)
- Portugal arrives (15th century)
- Transatlantic slave trade begins (16th century)
- French Equatorial Africa (1910-1958)
- Gabon gains independence (1960)
- Coup d'état (1964)
- Attempted coup d'état (2019)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Gabon at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Gabon.)
