- Norsemen arrive (9th century AD)
- Icelandic Commonwealth (930 - 1262 AD)
- Age of the Sturlungs conflict (13th century)
- Iceland becomes vassal state of Norway (13th century)
- Kalmar Union (1397-1537)
- Denmark-Norway (1523-1533, 1537-1814)
- Laki eruption (1783)
- Iceland gains independence (1918)
- Kingdom of Iceland (1918-1944)
- Britain invades Iceland (1940)
- Republic of Iceland (1944 - now)
- Iceland joins the European Economic Area (1994)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Iceland at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Iceland.)
