- Austronesia culture arrives (4th millennium BC)
- Samoan culture (Pre-European era)
- European navigators arrive (18th century)
- Samoan Civil War (1886-1894)
- Second Samoan Civil War (1898-1899)
- German Samoa (1900-1919)
- United States annexes Tutuila and Manu'a (1900)
- Spanish Flu infects Samoa (1918)
- New Zealand Western Samoa Trust Territory (1914-1962)
- Samoa gains independence (1962)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Samoa at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Samoa.)
