- First humans (40,000 years ago)
- Dacia kingdom (168 BC - 106 AD)
- Domitian's Dacian War (86 - 88 AD)
- Trajan's Dacian Wars (101 - 106 AD)
- Roman Dacia (106 - 271 AD)
- Goth invasion (3rd century - 4th century AD)
- Gepid kingdom (454 - 567 AD)
- Pannonian Avars (567 - 9th century AD)
- Battle of Ongal (680)
- First Bulgarian Empire (681 - 1018 AD)
- Balkan-Danubian culture (8th century - 11th century AD)
- Pecheneg culture (8th century - 12th century AD)
- Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396)
- Moldavia (1346-1859)
- Battle of Vaslui (1475)
- Transylvania (1570-1711)
- Habsburg occupation (1699)
- Austrian Empire occupation of Bukovina (1804)
- Russian occupation of Bessarabia (1812)
- Wallachian uprising (1821)
- Wallachian Revolution (1848)
- United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (1859-1862)
- Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878)
- Treaty of Berlin recognizes Romanian independence (1878)
- Kingdom of Romania (1881-1947)
- Second Balkan War (1913)
- Declares neutrality in World War I (1914)
- Joins Allies in World War I (1916)
- Joins Axis in World War II (1940)
- Joins Allies in World War II (1944)
- Soviet Union occupies Romania (1944-1958)
- Socialist Republic of Romania (1965-1989)
- Romanian Revolution (1989)
- Romania joins the European Union (2007)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Romania at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Romania.)
