- First inhabitants (5900 BC)
- Phoenicians arrive (8th century BC)
- Carthage annexes Malta (6th century BC)
- First Punic War (263 - 241 BC)
- Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC)
- Rome annexes Malta (218 BC)
- Byzantine annexes Malta (6th century AD)
- Aghlabid dynasty (800 - 909 AD)
- Siege of Melite (870 AD)
- Norman invasion of Malta (1091)
- Sicily kingdom (1130-1816)
- Spanish Crown of Aragon (1162-1716)
- Hospitaller Malta (1530-1798)
- Great Siege of Malta (1565)
- France occupies Malta (1798-1800)
- Siege of Malta (1798-1800)
- Britain occupies Malta (1800-1964)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Siege of Malta (1940-1942)
- Malta gains independence (1964)
- Malta joins the European Union (2004)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Malta at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Malta.)
