- First humans (37,000 years ago)
- Linear Pottery culture (5500 - 4500 BC)
- Swifterbant culture (5300 - 3400 BC)
- Funnelbeaker culture (4300 - 2800 BC)
- Vlaardingen culture (3500 - 2500 BC)
- Corded Ware culture (2900 - 2350 BC)
- Bell Beaker culture (2800 - 1800 BC)
- Elp culture (1800 - 800 BC)
- Hallstatt culture (1200 - 500 BC)
- Germanic tribe migration (750 - 250 BC)
- Gallic Wars (58 - 50 BC)
- Roman occupation of Netherlands (55 BC - 410 AD)
- Batavi Revolt (69 - 70 AD)
- Salian Franks (4th century - 5th century AD)
- Francia (481 - 843 AD)
- Frisian kingdom (600 - 734 AD)
- Frisian-Frankish wars (7th century - 8th century AD)
- Carolingian Empire (800 - 888 AD)
- Viking raids (9th century - 10th century AD)
- Lower Lotharingia (959-1190)
- Hook and Cod wars (1350-1490)
- Burgundian Netherlands (1384-1482)
- Spanish Netherlands (1556-1714)
- Dutch Revolt (1566-1648)
- Eighty Years War (1568-1648)
- Netherlands declares independence (1581)
- Dutch Republic (1588-1795)
- Dutch East India Company (1602-1799)
- New Netherland colony (1665-1667, 1673-1674)
- Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
- Dutch West India Company (1621-1792)
- First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654)
- Second Anglo-Dutch War (1655-1667)
- Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678)
- Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674)
- Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
- War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
- Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784)
- Batavian Republic (1795-1806)
- Kingdom of Holland (1806-1810)
- United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1839)
- Belgian Revolution (1830-1831)
- Netherlands remains neutral in World War I (1914-1918)
- Netherlands declares neutrality in World War II (1939)
- Germany occupies Netherlands (1940-1945)
- Dutch famine of 1944-1945
- Indonesia declares independence from Netherlands (1945)
- Joins European Economic Community (1958)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of the Netherlands at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of the Netherlands.)
