- Linear Pottery culture (5500 - 4500 BC)
- Cucuteni-Trypillia culture (5500 - 2750 BC)
- Yamnaya culture (3300 - 2600 BC)
- Scythians (7th century - 3rd century BC)
- Akatziri tribe (5th century BC)
- Sarmatians (5th century BC - 4th century AD)
- Bastarnae culture (200 BC - 300 AD)
- Roman and Byzantine occupation (1st century - 7th century AD)
- Moldavia (1436-1859)
- Ottoman Empire annexes Moldavia (1538)
- Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774
- Habsburg dynasty annexes Moldavia (1774)
- Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812
- Russian Bessarabia Governorate (1812-1917)
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Moldavian Democratic Republic (1917-1918)
- Romania occupies Bessarabia (1918-1940)
- Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Repbulic (1919)
- Tatarbunary Uprising (1924)
- Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1924-1940)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940-1991)
- Transnistria War (1990-1992)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Moldova gains independence (1991)
- Moldavian election protests (2009)
- Moldavian protests (2015-2016)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Moldova at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Moldova.)
