- Polynesian culture arrives (3,000 years ago)
- Tuvaluan culture (Pre-European era)
- Alvaro de Mendana de Neira reports seeing Tuvalu (1568)
- Funafuti island named Ellice's Island (1819)
- Britain and Germany claim Tuvalu (1876)
- British West Pacific Territories occupies Tuvalu (1892-1916)
- British Gilbert and Ellice Islands (1916-1974)
- Cyclone Bebe (1972)
- Tuvalu and Kiribati separate (1975)
- Tuvalu gains independence (1978)
- Cyclone Pam (2015)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Tuvalu at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Tuvalu.)
