- Sabaean kingdom (1200 BC - 275 AD)
- Ma'in kingdom (10th century BC - 150 BC)
- Himyarite kingdom (110 BC - 525 AD)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661 750 AD)
- Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 AD)
- Ziyadid dynasty (819 - 1018 AD)
- Yu'firid dynasty (847 - 997 AD)
- Imams of Yemen (897 - 1970 AD)
- Najahid dynasty (1022-1158)
- Sulayhid dynasty (1047-1138)
- Zurayid dynasty (1083-1174)
- Ayyubid invasion (12th century - 13th century)
- Rasulid dynasty (1229-1454)
- Tahirid dynasty (1454-1517)
- Ottoman Empire occupation (1517-1636)
- Zaidi Imamate (1597-1849)
- Lahej Sultanate (1728-1967)
- Ottoman Empire second occupation (1849-1872)
- British Aden Protectorate (1872-1963)
- Mutawakkilite kingdom (1918-1970)
- Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1990)
- South Yemen (1967-1990)
- Yemen is unified (1990)
- Houthi insurgency (2004-2014)
- Yemeni Revolution (2011-2012)
- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (2011 - now)
- Yemeni Civil War (2014 - now)
- Saudi Arabian intervention (2015 - now)
- Famine in Yemen (2016 - now)
- Cholera outbreak in Yemen (2016-2021)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Yemen at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Yemen.)
