- Austronesian culture arrives (3,300 years ago)
- Pedro Fernandes de Queiros and Spain arrive (1606)
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville and France arrive (1768)
- Captain Cook and Britain arrive (1774)
- Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission (1887-1889, 1890-1906)
- Franceville, New Hebrides (1889-1890)
- British-French New Hebrides (1906-1980)
- Coconut War (1980)
- Vanuatu gains independence (1980)
- Attempted coup d'état (1996)
(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Vanuatu at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Vanuatu.)
