Latvia



=Prehistory=
 * Kunda culture (8000 – 5000 BC)
 * Narva culture (5000 BC)
 * Comb Ceramic Culture (4000 BC)
 * Finnic people and the Balts (1800 BC)
 * Livonians (1800 BC)
 * Aesti (0 AD)

=1180s–1206= Principality of Koknese

=1203–1239= Principality of Jersika (Eastern Latvia)

=1207–1561= Terra Mariana

=1562–1795=
 * Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
 * a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1562-1596)
 * in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1596-1795)
 * Kingdom of Livonia (1570–1578)

=1629–1721= dominion of the Swedish Empire

=1721–1918=
 * Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (1721–1918)
 * Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (1795–1915)

=1918–1919= Occupation by German Empire

=1940-1941= Occupied by Soviet Union

=1941-1944= Occupied by Nazi Germany

=1944-1991= Occupied by Soviet Union

=1991–Current=