- Celtic tribes arrive (1500 BC)
- Roman Raetia province (15 - 476 AD)
- Alamannia (3rd century - 911 AD)
- Francia (481 - 843 AD)
- Carolingian Empire (800 - 888 AD)
- Lotharingia (855 - 959 AD)
- Upper Burgundy (888 - 933 AD)
- Old Swiss Confederacy (1300-1798)
- Swabian War (1499)
- Swiss Peasant War (1653)
- First War of Villmergen (1656)
- Toggenburg War (1712)
- France invades Switzerland (1798)
- Helvetic Republic (1798-1803)
- Act of Mediation issued by Napoleon Bonaparte (1803)
- Swiss Confederation (1803-1815)
- Restored Swiss Confederation (1814-1848)
- Sonderbund War (1847)
- Swiss Federal Constitution (1848)
- Neutral during World War I (1914-1918)
- Neutral during World War II (1935-1939)
- Free-trade agreement with European Economic Community (1972)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Switzerland at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Switzerland.)
