- Land of Punt (2500 - 980 BC)
- Macrobians (1st millennium BC)
- Aksum kingdom (80 - 960 AD)
- Ifat Sultanate (1185-1403)
- Adal Sultanate (1415-1577)
- French Somaliland (1883-1967)
- French Territory of the Afars and the Issas (1967-1977)
- Djibouti gains independence (1977)
- Djiboutian Civil War (1991-1994)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Djibouti at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Djibouti.)
