This question assumes that ten kingdoms shall rise in a future ‘tribulation period’. Specific reference to a ‘tribulation period’ occurs in Matthew 24:21, 29, and Revelation 7:14. Neither of these passages say anything about ten kingdoms rising during the tribulation.

Reference to ten kings appears in Daniel 7:24. Since these kings are represented by the ten horns on the fourth beast, and since the vision of the four beasts is typically understood as parallel to the vision of the image and four kingdoms in Daniel 2 (where the first kingdom was identified as Babylon), historically the ‘ten kings’ in Daniel 7:24 have been identified as representing ruling powers which emerged from the breakup of the Roman empire around 476 AD. The following is a list of expositors holding this interpretation (modern critical scholars typically interpret the horns as Greek rulers during the 2nd century BCE).

185    Irenaeus
200    Hippolytus
300    Victorinus
306    Lactantius
330    Eusebius
373    Athanasius
c. 347    Cyril
340-420    Jerome
393-457    Theodoretus
520    Andreas
730    Bede
800’s    Berengaud
1178 (d.)    Peter Comestor
1190    Joachim D’ Fiore
1240    Eberhard II
1224-1274    Thomas Aquinas
1496    Abravanel
1522    Martin Luther
1530    Oecolampadius
1543    Melanchthon
1545    George Joye
1545    Osiander
1547    John Knox
1547    Walter Lynne
1553    Hugh Latimer
1557      Bullinger
1570    Georg Nigrinus
1593    John Napier
1601    James I
1603    Downham
1604    George Pacard
1605      Brightman
1627    Joseph Mede
1639    John Cotton
1643    Ephraim Huit
1644    Roger Williams
1646    Thomas Parker
1655    John Tillinghast
1663    Henry More
1669    Increase Mather
1670      Sherwin
1672    Samuel Mather
1684    Beverley
1689      Cressener
1689      Pierre Jurieu
1700    William Lowth
1701    Cocceius
1702    Cotton Mather
1706    Willam Whiston
1712    Heinrich Horch
1724    William Burnet
1727      Isaac Newton
1739    Edwards
1745    John Willison
1751    Robert Clayton
1754      Thomas Newton
1757    Aaron Burr
1767    Isaac Backus
1788    Benjamin Gale
1793      James Bicheno
1794    Samuel Osgood
1794    William Linn
1795    George Bell
1796    Christian Thube
1797    David Simpson
1800    Flecherere
1803    William Hales
1805    Thomas Scott
1806    George Faber
1810    Samuel Toovey
1813    Maitland
1815    James H Frere
1817    William Cunninghame
1820    John Bayford
1821    Archibald Mason
1822    John Fry
1828    Edward Irving
1829    Alfred Addis
1838    W Chauncy
1844    S R L Gaussen
1850    John Wilson
1853    Sylvester Bliss
1859    William Newton
1860    E J Onion
1861    Hollis Read
1861    Samuel Garratt
1871    John Birchmore
1882    Bourchier Savile
1883    JJ Cleveland
1884    James Murphy
1906    James Stacy
1917    WA Spicer
1918    Frederick Smith

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