- First humans (50,000 years ago)
- Dilmun civilization (4th millennium - 538 BC)
- Seleucid Empire (312 - 63 BC)
- Parthian Empire (247 BC - 224 AD)
- Sasanian Empire (224 - 651 AD)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750 AD)
- Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 AD)
- Usfurid dynasty gains control (1253)
- Ormus dynasty gains control (1320)
- Portugal occupies Qatar (1521-1602)
- Ottoman Empire gains control (1550)
- Bani Khalid confederation occupies Qatar (1670-1783)
- British Persian Gulf Residency (1763-1947)
- Al Khalifa dynasty gains control (1783)
- Diriyah Emirate (1744-1818)
- Nejd Emirate (1824-1891)
- Qatari-Bahraini War (1867-1868)
- Ottoman Najd Sanjak (1871-1915)
- Battle of Al Wajbah (1893)
- Britain occupies Qatar (1916-1971)
- Oil drilling begins in Qatar (1938)
- Qatar gains independence (1971)
- Gulf War (1991)
- Attempted coup d'état (1996)
- First Libyan Civil War (2011)
- Qatar diplomatic crisis (2017-2021)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Qatar at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Qatar.)
