- First humans (40,000 years ago)
- Chola dynasty (3rd century BC - 1279 AD)
- Gangga Negara (2nd century - 1025)
- Langkasuka kingdom (2nd century - 15th century AD)
- Old Pahang kingdom (5th century - 1454 AD)
- Srivijaya Empire (650 - 1377 AD)
- Singapura kingdom (1299-1398)
- Brunei Sultanate (1368-1888)
- Malacca Sultanate (1400-1511)
- Pattani kingdom (1457-1902)
- Pahang Sultanate (1470-1623)
- Aceh Sultanate (1496-1903)
- Portuguese Malacca (1511-1641)
- Johor Sultanate (1528-1855)
- Dutch Malacca (1641-1825)
- Dutch East Indies (1800-1949)
- British Malaya (1826-1957)
- Japan occupies Malaysia (1941-1945)
- Federation of Malaya (1948-1963)
- Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
- Malaysia declares independence (1957)
- Singapore leaves Malaysia (1965)
- Communist insurgency (1968-1989)
- May 13 incident (1969)
- New Economic Policy (1971)
- Malaysian political crisis (2020-2021)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Malaysia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Malaysia.)
