4200 BCE: Founding of the city of Susa.

3200 BCE - 2700 BCE: Susa develops from an earlier settlement during the Proto-Elamite Period.

2700 BCE - 1600 BCE: Susa establishes commerce and trade during the Old Elamite Period; is conquered by Kish, Akkad, Ur, and Babylon.

1600 BCE - 1100 BCE: Susa flourishes during the Middle Elamite Period; consolidates power.

1275 BCE - 1240 BCE: Reign of Untash-Napirisha from Susa; construction of the Great Ziggurat of Dur-Untash.

1210 BCE - 1100 BCE: Susa prospers under the Shutrukid Dynasty.

1185 BCE - 1150 BCE: Reign of Shutruk Nakhunte who founds Elamite Empire from Susa.

1100 BCE - 540 BCE: Neo-Elamite Period during which Susa is conquered by a series of foreign powers; Elamite history ends with conquest by Cyrus the Great.

646 BCE: Destruction of the Elamite city of Susa by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

465 BCE - 424 BCE: Susa is destroyed by fire under the reign of King Artaxerxes I.

404 BCE - 358 BCE: Reign of Artaxerxes II Mnemon of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

331 BCE: Susa surrenders without contest to Alexander the Great who sacks it.

312 BCE - 63 BCE: Susa is part of the Seleucid Empire.

247 BCE - 224 CE: Susa serves as one of two capitals under the Parthian Empire.

224 CE - 651 CE: Susa declines under the reign of the Sasanian Empire.

309 CE - 379 CE: Reign of Shapur II of the Sasanian Empire; Susa is sacked and population deported.

638 CE: Susa is sacked and destroyed by Muslim invaders under Caliph Omar.

1218 CE: Susa is completely destroyed by invading Mongols.