- Cucuteni-Trypillia culture (4500 - 3000 BC)
- Scythian culture (9th century BC - 2nd century AD)
- Chernyakhov culture (2nd - 5th century AD)
- Kiev culture (3rd century - 5th century AD)
- Bosporan Kingdom (438 - 370 AD)
- Antes culture (6th century AD)
- Old Great Bulgaria (632 - 665 AD)
- Khazar Khaganate (650 850 AD)
- Kievan Rus (879 - 1240 AD)
- Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia (1199-1349)
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1236-1795)
- Mongols invade Kiev (1240)
- Golden Horde (1242-1502)
- Crimean Khanate (1441-1783)
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795)
- Pereyaslav Council (1654)
- Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
- Zaporochian Sich (16th century - 17th century)
- Cossack Hetmanate (1649-1764)
- Koliivshchyna rebellion (1768)
- Russian Empire annexes Ukraine (1793)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Soviet-Ukrainian War (1917-1921)
- Ukrainian War of Independence (1917-1921)
- Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919)
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-1991)
- Holodomor famine (1933)
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1942-1949)
- Operation Vistula (1947)
- Transfer of Crimea to Ukraine (1954)
- Ukraine gains independence (1991)
- Euromaidan protests (2013-2014)
- Ukrainian Revolution (2014)
- Russia annexes Crimea (2014)
- Donbas War (2014 - now)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Ukraine at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Ukraine.)
