[1] The settlement was first mentioned in 1334, when Teutonic knights razed terra Dubingam during one of their raids.

Later it was governed by the Radziwiłłs who built Dubingiai Castle from rock and town became one of the centres of the Reformation in Lithuania.

Many famous members of Radziwiłł family were burned and are buried in the churchyard of Dubingiai castle.

It was annexed by the Russian Empire after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795 and became a part of Vilna Governorate.

A massacre of over 20 Lithuanian inhabitants by a local Home Army unit occurred on 23 June 1944, during World War II.