- First humans (30,000 - 20,000 years ago)
- Dapenkeng culture (4000 - 3000 BC)
- Sino-Dutch conflict (1620's - 1670's)
- Dutch Formosa (1624-1668)
- Spanish Formosa (1626-1642)
- Battle of Liaoluo Bay (1633)
- Lamey Island massacre (1636)
- Guo Huaiyi rebellion (1652)
- Tungning kingdom (1661-1683)
- Qing Empire occupation (1683-1895)
- Mudan incident (1871)
- Sino-French War (1884-1885)
- First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
- Empire of Japan occupation (1895-1945)
- Republic of China (1912-1949)
- Kuomintang political party (1919 - now)
- Chinese Civil War (1927-1936, 1945-1949)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- Cairo Conference (1943)
- February 28 incident (1947)
- Republic of China retreats to Taiwan (1949)
- First Taiwan Strait crisis (1954-1955)
- Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (1954)
- Second Taiwan Strait crisis (1958)
- Kaohsiung incident (1979)
- 1992 Consensus
- Third Taiwan Strait crisis (1995-1996)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Taiwan at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Taiwan.)
