- Garamantes civilization (1000 BC - 500 AD)
- Greece founds city of Cyrene (630 BC)
- Achaemenid Empire (550 - 330 BC)
- Numidia (202 - 40 BC)
- Libya is annexed to Rome (74 BC)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750 AD)
- Abbasid Caliphate (750-1517)
- Zirid dynasty (972-1148)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121-1269)
- Hafsid kingdom (1229-1574)
- Ottoman Tripolitania (1551-1912)
- Tripolitanian Civil War (1793-1795)
- First Barbary War (1801-1805)
- Second Barbary War (1815)
- Italian occupies Libya (1911-1943)
- Britain occupies Libya (1943-1951)
- Libya gains independence (1951)
- Kingdom of Libya (1951-1969)
- Muammar Gaddafi dictatorship (1969-2011)
- Libyan Civil War (2011)
- Second Libyan Civil War (2014-2020)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Libya at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Libya.)
