- Starcevo culture (6200 - 4500 BC)
- Vinca culture (5700 - 4500 BC)
- Hunnic invasion (5th century AD)
- Dardania kingdom (393 - 28 BC)
- Rome invades Illyria (168 BC)
- Roman Illyricum province (27 BC - 69/79 AD
- Bulgarian Empire annexes Kosovo (9th century AD)
- Byzantine Empire invades Kosovo (1018)
- Uprising of Peter Delyan (1040-1041)
- Uprising of Georgie Voyteh (1072)
- Serbian Empire occupies Kosovo (1346-11371)
- Battle of Kosovo (1389)
- Battle of Kosovo (1448)
- Albania annexes Kosovo (15th century)
- Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet (1877-1913)
- Expulsion of the Albanians (1877-1878)
- Albanian revolt of 1912
- First Balkan War (1912-1913)
- Second Balkan War (1913)
- Serbia annexes Kosovo (1913)
- Yugoslavia occupies Serbia and Kosovo (1918)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Axis occupies Yugoslavia (1941-1945)
- Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo (1945-1990)
- Kosovo gains autonomy (1963)
- Kosovo loses autonomy to Serbia (1990)
- Kosovo War (1998-1999)
- Unrest in Kosovo (2004)
- Kosovo declares independence (2008)
- North Kosovo crisis (2013)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Kosovo at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Kosovo.)