- First humans (33,000 years ago)
- Starcevo-Koros-Cris culture (5800 - 4500 BC)
- Vucedol culture (3000 - 2200 BC)
- Hallstatt culture (1200 - 500 BC)
- Roman Empire occupation (1st century BC - 4th century AD)
- Hunnic Empire (370 - 469 AD)
- Ostrogothic kingdom (469 - 553 AD)
- Pannonian Avars (567 - 9th century AD)
- Great Moravia (833 - 907 AD)
- Hungary principality (895 - 1000 AD)
- Hungarian conquest of Carpathian Basin (9th century - 10th century)
- Hungary kingdom (1000-1918, 1920-1946)
- Mongol invasion (1241)
- Ottoman-Hungarian wars (1366-1526)
- Ottoman-Habsburg wars (1526-1791)
- Ottoman Empire occupies Hungary (1541-1699)
- Transylvania principality (1570-1711)
- Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
- Rakoczi's War of Independence (1703-1711)
- Hungarian Revolution (1848)
- Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
- Red Terror (1919)
- White Terror (1919-1921)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Germany occupies Hungary (1944)
- Second Hungarian Republic (1946-1949)
- Hungarian People's Republic (1949-1989)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Third Hungarian Republic (1989 - now)
- Hungary joins the European Union (2004)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Hungary at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Hungary.)