- Micronesian culture (2nd millennium BC)
- Alonso de Salazar and Spain arrive (1526)
- Spain claims part of Marshall Islands (1874)
- German New Guinea (1884-1914)
- Japanese South Sea Mandate (1914-1947)
- Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign (1943-1944)
- United States nuclear bomb tests (1946-1958)
- United States annexes Marshall Islands (1947)
- Marshall Islands gains independence (1979)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of the Marshall Islands at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of the Marshall Islands.)
