- Natufian culture (15,000 - 11,500 years ago)
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 - 1077 BC)
- Israel kingdom - United Monarchy (1047 - 930 BC)
- Israel kingdom - Samaria (930 - 729 BC)
- Judah kingdom (930 BC - 586 BC)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 - 609 BC)
- Hebrew Bible (8th century - 1st century BC)
- Jewish-Babylonian War (601-586 BC)
- Babylonian Yehud province (586 - 539 BC)
- Persian Yehud province (539 - 332 BC)
- Coele-Syria (332 - 64 BC)
- Hasmonean dynasty (140 - 37 BC)
- Hasmonean Civil War (67 - 63 BC)
- Roman Decapolis (63 BC - 106 AD)
- Roman Herodian Kingdom of Judea (37 - 4 BC)
- Jewish-Roman wars (66 - 135 AD)
- Roman Arabia Petraea (106 - 630 AD)
- Roman Syria Palaestina (135 - 390 AD)
- Byzantine Palaestina Prima (390 - 636 AD)
- Byzantine Secunda (390 - 636 AD)
- Jewish revolt against Heraclius (614 - 617/625 AD)
- Siege of Jerusalem (636 - 637 AD)
- Jund Filastin (7th century - 11th century AD)
- Jerusalem kingdom (1099 - 1291)
- Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
- Ottoman Syria (1516-1831, 1841-1918)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Jaffa deportation (1917)
- Balfour Declaration from Britain (1917)
- Mandatory Palestine (1920-1948)
- Arab revolt in Palestine (1936-1939)
- World War II (1939 - 1945)
- Holocaust (1941-1945)
- Palestine Emergency (1944-1948)
- United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (1947)
- Mandatory Palestine civil war (1947-1948)
- Arab-Israeli War (1948)
- Israel gains independence (1948)
- Armistice Agreements (1949)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- United Arab Republic occupies Gaza Strip (1959-1967)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- War of Attrition (1967-1970)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- South Lebanon conflict (1978)
- Egypt-Israel peace treaty (1979)
- Lebanon War (1982)
- South Lebanon conflict (1985-2000)
- First Intifada (1987-1993)
- Gulf War (1991)
- Oslo I Accord (1993)
- Second Intifada (2000-2005)
- Gaza cross-border raid (2006)
- Lebanon War (2006)
- Gaza War (2008-2009)
- Israeli social justice protests (2011)
- Gaza War (2014)
- Israel-Palestine crisis (2021)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Israel at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Israel.)
