- Land of Punt (2500 - 980 BC)
- Macrobians (1st millennium BC)
- Mogadishu Sultanate (9th century - 13th century AD)
- Ifat Sultanate (1185-1403)
- Ajuran Sultanate (13th century - 17th century)
- Adal Sultanate (1415-1577)
- Somali-Portugese wars (16th century)
- Majeerteen Sultanate (17th century - 1927)
- Hobyo Sultanate (1878-1927)
- French Somaliland (1883-1967)
- British Somaliland (1884-1960)
- Banadir Resistance (1888-1924)
- Italian Somaliland (1889-1936)
- Italian East Africa (1936-1941)
- Somalia gains independence (1960)
- Somaliland (1960 - now)
- Coup d'état (1969)
- Ogaden War (1977-1978)
- Somaliland War of Independence (1981-1991)
- Ethiopian-Somali Border War (1982)
- Isaaq genocide (1987-1989)
- Somaliland declarers independence (1991)
- Somali Civil War (1991- now)
- Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
- Somalia War (2006-2009)
- Al-Shabaab (2006 - now)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Somalia at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Somalia.)
