- Nilotic culture (3000 BC)
- Shilluk culture (16th century)
- Azande culture (16th century)
- Equatoria is established (1870)
- First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972)
- Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005)
- South Sudan gains independence (2011)
- South Sudanese Civil War (2013-2020)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of South Sudan at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of South Sudan.)
