- First humans (11,000 - 12,000 years ago)
- Swiderian culture (11,000 - 8,200 years ago)
- Narva culture (5300 - 1750 BC)
- Selonian tribe (1st millennium - 15th century AD)
- Curonian tribe (5th century - 16th century AD)
- Latgalian tribe (5th century - 16th century AD)
- Jersika principality (10th century - 1239 AD)
- Livonian Crusade (13th century)
- Terra Mariana (1207-1561)
- State of the Teutonic Order (1226-1525)
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1236-1795)
- Livonian War (1558-1583)
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)
- Livonia kingdom (1570-1578)
- Polish-Swedish War (1600-1629)
- Swedish Livonia (1629-1721)
- Great Northern War (1700-1721)
- Russian Empire (1721-1917)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920)
- Latvia gains independence from Russia (1921)
- Coup d'état (1934)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Germany occupies Latvia (1941-1945)
- Holocaust (1941-1945)
- Latvian Soviet Sociality Republic (1940-1991)
- Latvia regains independence (1991)
- Latvia joins the European Union (2004)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Latvia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Latvia.)
