- Linear Pottery culture (5500 - 4500 BC)
- Scythians (7th century - 3rd century BC)
- Lusatian culture (1300 - 500 BC)
- Zarubintsy culture (3rd century BC - 1st century AD)
- Przeworsk culture (3rd century BC - 5th century AD)
- Western Polans tribe (6th century - 9th century AD)
- Piast dynasty (960 - 1370 AD)
- Boleslaw III Wrymouth divides Poland between his sons (1138)
- Mongols invade Poland (1240)
- Kingdom of Poland (1385-1795)
- Jagiellonian dynasty (1386-1572)
- Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411)
- Battle of Varna (1444)
- Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466)
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)
- Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648-1657)
- Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
- Second Northern War (1655-1660)
- Battle of Vienna (1683)
- Great Northern War (1700-1721)
- Constitution of May 3rd, 1791
- Polish-Russian War of 1792
- Kosciuszko Uprising (1794)
- Invaded by Russia, Prussia and Habsburg (1795)
- Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1815)
- Austro-Polish War (1809)
- Congress of Poland (1815-1915)
- Great Emigration (1831-1870)
- Galician Slaughter (1846)
- Greater Poland Uprising (1848)
- January Uprising (1863-1864)
- Vistula Land (1867-1915)
- Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905-1907)
- Second Polish Republic (1918-1939)
- Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919)
- Polish-Lithuanian War (1919-1920)
- Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
- Silesian Uprisings (1919-1921)
- May Coup (1926)
- Great Peasant Uprising (1937)
- Nazi occupation of Poland (1939-1945)
- Holocaust (1941-1945)
- Warsaw Uprising (1944)
- Polish People's Repbulic (1947-1989)
- June protests (1976)
- Third Polish Republic (1989 - now)
- Constitution of Poland (1997)
- Poland joins the European Union (2004)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Poland at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Poland.)
