- Cycladic culture (3200 - 1050 BC)
- Minoan civilization (3000 - 1100 BC)
- Tiryns culture (2200 - 2000 BC)
- Mycenaean civilization (1750 - 1050 BC)
- Greek Dark Ages (1100 - 800 BC)
- Persian Wars (499 - 449 BC)
- Delian League of city-states formed (477 BC)
- Peloponnesian War (431 - 405 BC)
- Macedon unites city-states (346 BC)
- First Macedonian War (212 - 205 BC)
- Second Macedonian War (198 - 197 BC)
- Rome annexes Greece (146 BC)
- Byzantine Empire (395-1453)
- Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
- Ottoman Empire occupation of Greece (1821-1822)
- First Hellenic Republic (1822-1832)
- Kingdom of Greece (1832-1924, 1935-1941, 1944-1973)
- Goudi coup Coup (1909)
- Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Invasion of Smyrna (1919-1922)
- Second Hellenic Republic (1924-1935)
- Kingdom of Greece (1835-1941)
- World War I (1939-1945)
- Greco-Italian War (1940-1941)
- German occupation of Greece (1941-1944)
- Hellenic State (1941-1944)
- Greek Civil wars (1943-1949)
- Kingdom of Greece (1944-1973)
- Military junta (1967-1974)
- Third Hellenic Republic (1974 - now)
- Cypriot coup d'état (1974)
- Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
- Greek government debt crisis (2009 - now)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Greece at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Greece.)