- First humans (45,000 years ago)
- Qaraoun culture (20,000 - 5,000 years ago)
- Phoenicia (2500 - 64 BC)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 - 609 BC)
- Achaemenid Empire invasion (539 BC)
- Alexander the Great and Macedonia invade Lebanon (332 BC)
- Seleucid Empire (312 - 63 BC)
- Roman Syria (64 BC - 198 AD)
- Roman Coele Syria (198 - 4th century AD)
- Roman Phoenice (194 - 7th century AD)
- Byzantine Empire annexes Lebanon (4th century AD)
- Sassanid Empire occupies Lebanon (619 - 627 AD)
- Muslim conquest of the Levant (634 - 638 AD)
- Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1291)
- Crusader County of Tripoli (1102-1289)
- Ma'n dynasty (1120-1697)
- Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
- Ottoman Syria (1516-1831, 1841-1918)
- Shihab dynasty (1697-1842)
- Mount Lebanon and Damascus civil conflict (1860)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915-1918)
- Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (1917-1920)
- French Greater Lebanon (1920-1946)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Lebanon gains independence (1943)
- Lebanon crisis (1958)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Jordanian Civil War (1970-1971)
- Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
- Syria occupies Lebanon (1976-2005)
- Lebanon War (1982)
- Israel occupies Southern Lebanon (1985-2000)
- Cedar Revolution (2005)
- Second Lebanon War (2006)
- Syrian Civil War (2011 - now)
- Lebanese protests (2019-2020)
- Beirut explosion (2020)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Lebanon at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Lebanon.)
