- First humans (40,000 - 12,000 years ago)
- Kelteminar culture (5500 - 3500 BC)
- Botai culture (3700 - 3100 BC)
- Andronovo culture (2000 - 900 BC)
- Srubnaya culture (1800 - 1200 BC)
- Yueban state (160 - 490 AD)
- Hun invasion (4th century AD)
- Rouran Khaganate (330 - 555 AD)
- First Turkic Khaganate (552 - 603 AD)
- Western Turkic Khaganate (581 - 742 AD)
- Kangar union (659 - 750 AD)
- Oghuz Yabgu state (766 - 1055 AD)
- Kara-Khanid Khanate (840 - 1212 AD)
- Kimek-Kipchak confederation (880 - 1200 AD)
- Qara Khitai (1124-1218)
- Mongol invasion (13th century)
- Kazakh Khanate (1465-1822, 1847)
- Russian Empire occupation (16th century)
- Russian conquest of Central Asia (1839-1895)
- Russian Turkestan (1867-1917)
- Alash Autonomy (1917-1920)
- Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (1920-1936)
- Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1936-1991)
- Kazakhstan gains independence (1991)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Kazakhstan at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Kazakhstan.)
