| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | HEAD OF STATE | |
| 1129 | Lordship | |||
| 1454 | Lordship of Count of Bentheim | |||
| 1495 | 26 april | Count of Count of Bentheim | ||
| 1643 | dinasty Gotterswick | earl Filippo Corrado | ||
| 1668 | Count of Count of Bentheim | |||
| 1693 | 26 august | dinasty Gotterswick | earl Ernst | |
| 1713 | 10 march | earl Friedrich Belgicus Karl | ||
| 1733 | 7 june | earl Karl Paul Ernst | ||
| 1780 | 30 june | Count of Principality of Bentheim | ||
| 1817 | Principality of Principality of Bentheim | |||
| 1854 | Prussian Administration | |||
| 1918 | Union to German State of Lower Saxony |