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- "I don't think there's ever been a time in our recorded history when there wasn't a war going on somewhere."
"All the more reason for changing the future, then." - ―Jacen Solo and Lumiya
This is a timeline of galactic history recording the galaxy's important events. All dates are given according to the Galactic Standard Calendar.
Timeline of galactic history
Pre-Republic era
- Dawn of time
- c. 13,000,000,000 BBY
- The galaxy is formed.[1]
- c. 5,000,000,000 BBY
- Life emerges on Goroth Prime.[2]
- c. 10,000,000 BBY
- c. 1,000,000 BBY
- An ancient aquatic civilization thrives on the planet Jerrilek, but eventually goes extinct in the following millennia.[5]
- The semi-intelligent ancestors to the Gorothites emerge on Goroth Prime.[2]
- c. 600,000 BBY
- By this point, the cephalopod-crustacean hybrids known as ibliton have evolved on Randorn 2, leaving fossil records that are later analyzed by the Tyberious Institute of Xenobiology hundreds of thousands of years later.[6]
- c. 200,000 BBY
- The Zhell, the early ancestors of the Human species, battles the Taung species for control of their mutual homeworld Notron (later known as Coruscant). Despite a loss at the city of Great Zhell that inspires the epic poem Dha Werda Verda, the Battalions of Zhell succeed in driving the Taungs offworld.[7]
- c. 100,000 BBY
- Roughly around this time, the Celestials accomplish a number of feats:[1] the construction of Centerpoint Station using the Killiks,[8] the subsequent construction of the Corellian system using Centerpoint, the Vultar system and its Cosmic Turbine, the Hapes Cluster, and the Kathol Rift.[1] The Maw black hole cluster was also constructed with Centerpoint during the Celestials' era of power to contain the Force entity known as Abeloth.[8]
- The Columi species achieves interstellar spaceflight and surveys the "primitive" people of Duro and Notron, known by that point as Coruscant. However, they are disappointed by the developing Human and Duros civilizations and return to their homeworld of Columus in isolation.[9]
- Around this time, the Sharu expand out from the Rafa system and the Centrality, planting their indestructible pyramids on planets such as Aargau. However, the Sharu bury their cities and revert to a primitive state in an attempt to avoid the attention of the Celestials.[1]
- The winged thrantcills are first recorded flying south for winter on Coruscant.[10]
- The Muurshantre Extinction occurs, destroying the Taurannik Codex and scattering its remains.[11]
- c. 90,000 BBY
- The metropolis eventually known as Galactic City has grown to the point where new levels are built atop old ones, beginning the trend of upward building that continues for thousands of years.[1]
- c. 53,600 BBY
- The Quake, a series of intense groundquakes that last for centuries, begins on the planet Quesh.[13]
- c. 53,300 BBY
- The Quake comes to an end as Quesh becomes geologically stable.[13]
- 36,453 BBY
- By this time, the few Kwa who remain on the Deep Core world of Tython have died out, and the Kwa as a whole have retreated to their homeworld of Dathomir in fear of the Rakata. The Kwa taught the Rakata how to use the Force, but conflict ensued when the Rakata tried to take the Kwa's Infinity Gate technology.[14]
- The Tho Yor—eight great pyramid starships scattered across the galaxy—activate, calling Force-sensitives to them. The pilgrims board the Tho Yor, which proceed to visit numerous worlds and acquire Force-sensitives of many species before traveling to the Deep Core world of Tython.[15]
- The arrival of the Tho Yor at the ninth and largest Tho Yor is heralded by an enormous Force Storm, and the Tho Yor scatter their passengers across Tython. The Tythans soon form the Je'daii Order, a group of Force-users who strive for balance between the light and dark sides of the Force which they know as Ashla and Bogan.[15]
- c. 35,000 BBY
- The Rakata, having developed technology powered by the dark side of the Force, establish an Infinite Empire that begins to expand throughout the Unknown Regions and into the western galaxy.[16]
- 33,598 BBY
- The central control system of the Infinite Empire's terraforming computer on the planet Kashyyyk receives its last communication from its builders.[17]
- 33,357 BBY
- The terraforming computer on Kashyyyk malfunctions, causing a hyper-acceleration in the growth of the planet's forests and giving rise to the enormous wroshyr trees.[17]
- c. 30,000 BBY
- The Infinite Empire of the Rakata reaches its peak, spanning dozens of worlds across the galaxy. They annex the holdings of other spacefaring species such as the Gree and the Kwa.[1]
- The Killiks of Alderaan attempt to invade the planet Korriban, but are repelled by the Sith species.[1]
- The Killiks vanish from Alderaan,[1] Alsakan[18] and the galaxy at large, having been relocated to the Unknown Regions; modern scholars believe that the Celestials are responsible.[1]
- c. 28,000 BBY
- c. 27,700 BBY
- The Sith species on Korriban are visited by the Rakata of the Infinite Empire, but King Adas leads his people in driving the Rakata offworld after realizing they intend to conquer the planet.[1]
- Korriban is devastated by the Rakatan attack, turning it into a wasteland and causing most Sith to relocate to the forested world of Ziost. Korriban becomes the species' holy tombworld.[19]
- Using Rakatan Force-driven hyperdrive technology, the Sith spread out among the planets of the Stygian Caldera, and the planet Tund becomes a place of exile for heretics among the Sith.[1]
- c. 27,500 BBY
- The Human natives of Coruscant begin to launch sublight sleeper ships over the next fifteen hundred years, seeding a number of worlds with Humans. These include Kuat, Metellos, Csilla, Alderaan, Koros Major, Rendili, and the Tion Cluster.[1] The Humans also launch the Kuat Explorer, which colonizes the planet Alsakan.[20]
- c. 27,000 BBY
- The Gossam Courivers, a group of Gossam explorers using the tumble hyperdrive, visit the planet Felucia and start a trend of Gossam colonization for the world.[1]
- The Devaronian species also experiments with the tumble hyperdrive around this time.[1]
- Human colonists arrive in the Tion Cluster on sleeper ships.[1]
- c. 26,053 BBY
- c. 26,000 BBY
- By this time, Kuat has launched their own colonization ships and seeded Axum, Tepasi, and Humbarine with Humans.[1]
- In the aftermath of the fourth in a series of devastating planetary conflicts,[22] the early Nikto discover the M'dweshuu nova and form the religious Cult of M'dweshuu.[4] The Cult quickly takes control of the entire planet of Kintan and rules for three decades.[22]
- The Verpine species colonize the Roche system.[4]
- 25,805 BBY
- Queen Hadiya of Shikaakwa tried to conquer the whole Tython system, igniting the Despot War.[23]
- Queen Hadiya is killed at the Battle of Tython, ending the Despot War.[24]
- 25,793 BBY
- The Force Wars on Tython begin between the followers of Ashla and the followers of Bogan.[25]
- Tatooine was conquered by the Infinite Empire.[1]
- The Infinite Empire launches a campaign of conquest against the Je'daii Order and the Settled Worlds.
- 25,783 BBY
- The Force Wars end with the Force Cataclysm and the surviving members of the Je'daii Order establish the Jedi Order.[26]
- c. 25,200 BBY
- c. 25,150 BBY
- Xer VIII begins the Cronese Sweeps, the subjugation of pocket kingdoms around the Tion Hegemony.[1]
- 25,130 BBY
- Xer's son Xim takes the throne of the Kingdom of Cron, and he begins a campaign to conquer the Livien League.[1]
- 25,127 BBY
- Xim the Despot begins to expands his kingdom, having conquered the Livien League and the Tion Cluster.[1]
- 25,126 BBY
- Xim begins to absorb the Thanium Worlds.[1]
- 25,125 BBY
- Xim's empire begins to flourish in the Tion Cluster.[1]
- 25,120 BBY
- Xim begins to conquer the Kiirium Reaches to the southwest of his empire.[1]
- 25,116 BBY
- Xim's conquest of the Thanium Worlds comes to a close.[1]
- 25,100 BBY
- The conflict between Xim and the Hutts reaches its peak; Kossak Inijic Ar'durv lures Xim into fighting the First and Second Battles of Vontor.[28]
- Kossak convinces the Klatooinians, Nikto, and Vodran species to sign the Treaty of Vontor, securing their allegiance and their aid in the Third Battle of Vontor.[1]
- Xim is captured at Vontor and imprisoned in Kossak's dungeons on Varl, though the Tionese are unaware of Xim's survival.[1]
- Borte Belgoth is commissioned to construct a set of hyperspace beacons, one of which becomes known as Belgoth's Beacon. Belgoth's Beacon bears the faces of a Columi, a cacodemon, and a molator, and sits along the Perlemian Trade Route. (Approximate date)[1]
- 25,096 BBY
- Xim's empire completes the conquest of the Kiirium Reaches, despite the loss of its ruler.[1]
Expansionist Era (25,053 BBY-20,000 BBY)
- 25,053 BBY
- With the Rakatan hyperdrive having been reverse-engineered by Corellian scientists, the inhabitants of the Core Worlds begin to expand outward and settle the known galaxy.[26]
- The Galactic Republic is founded with the signing of the Galactic Constitution, and Coruscant becomes the new government's capital.[26]
- 25,000 BBY
- The Perlemian Trade Route is founded, linking Coruscant with Ossus and the Tion Cluster.[1]
- The Corellian Run is mapped, ensuring the economic dominance of Corellia in the forming Republic; the Corellian Run forms the southern border of the Slice.[1]
- Republic scouts make contact with the Jedi Order on Ossus, and Jedi Master Haune Tiar accompanies the scouts back to the Republic. After conferring for several weeks, the Order pledge themselves to the Republic's service.[29]
- With the development of the hyperdrive, Queen Rana allows for a wave of colonization to embark from Duros; one of the colony worlds is the planet Neimoidia,[1] which is colonized by a group of Duros led by Chla C'cHaan. (Approximate date)[30]
- The Jedi Sar Agorn takes on a Padawan in Cope Shykrill, but Shykrill falls to the dark side of the Force and is struck down. (Approximate date)[19]
- 24,500 BBY
- The First Great Schism erupts in the Core Worlds between the Jedi Order and the Legions of Lettow, members of the Jedi Order who seek to use the dark side against the Order's wishes. The Legions' leader Xendor originally asked for permission to create an academy for the study of Force techniques outlawed by the Jedi, and after their refusal he founded the Legions on Lettow—prompting the Order to declare war on them.[31]
- The Schism sees Xendor's death at Columus, and the conflict ends not long afterwards as the Order invaded Lettow.[31]
- Following the death of Xendor, now the Legions' leader Arden Lyn was tracked down by the Jedi Master Awdrysta Pina, who followed her to Irkalla[31] in the Unknown Regions,[32] they dueled until Pina disarmed Lyn of her sword. Unwilling to concede defeat, she channeled her strongest emotions–rage and sorrow, love for Xendor, and despair over what she believed had been unfairly taken from them–through the Kashi Mer talisman, to shatter Pina's katana blade, and drive its pieces into his body, fatally wounding him. However, Pina was able to use the technique of morichro to stop Lyn's heart before he died.[31]
- 24,000 BBY
- The Tionese War begins: the Tionese unite as the Honorable Union of Desevro & Tion and attack the Republic, storming down the Perlemian. The Republic begins producing warships at Core shipyards, but the Tionese push into the heart of the Republic and bomb numerous worlds. The Republic ultimately repels the Tionese with a desperate counterattack by numerous Core systems, sparking a series of offensives and counteroffensives that last around a century.[31]
- c. 23,643 BBY
- c. 22,800 BBY
- c. 22,000 BBY
Great Manifest Period (20,000 BBY-17,018 BBY)
- 20,000 BBY
- The Great Manifest Period begins, sparking an era of expansion for the Galactic Republic and the widespread colonization of the Slice.[1]
- Etti IV is settled by Republic dissidents fleeing corruption in the Core Worlds. (Approximate date)[1]
- The planet Metellos attempts to establish a hyperlane known as the Metellos Trade Route that connects it with Coruscant and points westward to Orooturoo.[34]
- Roni von Wasaki is born. (Approximate date)[35]
- c. 19,997 BBY
- The planet Neona undergoes a dramatic climate change that submerges the planet's surface, driving the native species to extinction.[36]
- c. 19,000 BBY
- 18,780 BBY
- The Shawken Spire, a massive spire that touches low orbit and was constructed over the course of nine thousand years, is destroyed.[1]
- 18,000 BBY
- The Bureau of Ships and Services has been formed by this time.[1]
The Indecta Era (17,018 BBY-15,000 BBY)
- 17,018 BBY
- The Indecta Era begins.[31]
- The First Alsakan Conflict begins, sparking fourteen thousand years of conflict between Alsakan and Coruscant. Alsakan leads its supporters, the Axis worlds, in blocking the Grand Companies of the Spin from expanding south, and the trading conglomerates are backed by Duros merchant barons and the Coruscant-dominated Republic.[31]
- Republic forces conquer the planet Virujansi.[31]
- c. 17,000 BBY
- 16,921 BBY
- The Battle of Kes, the only direct armed conflict between the Republic and Alsakan during the early Alsakan Conflicts, occurs.[31]
- 16,820 BBY
- The First Siege of Porus Vida occurs.[31]
- c. 16,800 BBY
- The Siege of Belasco occurs.[31]
- 16,782 BBY
- The Celebratus Archive is founded on the planet Obroa-skai.[1]
- c. 16,700 BBY
- The First Alsakan Conflict ends as the Bureau of Ships and Services forces a peace—the Bureau threatens to withhold access to the hyperspace beacons.[31]
- c. 16,200 BBY
- The Second Alsakan Conflict begins.[31]
- c. 16,100 BBY
- The Second Siege of Porus Vida occurs.[31]
- c. 16,000 BBY
- The Second Alsakan Conflict's Gizer Campaign occurs.[31]
- c. 15,600 BBY
- The Core Campaigns, part of the Second Alsakan Conflict, take place.[31]
- 15,500 BBY
- The Duinuogwuin Contention: Republic scouts encounter the Duinuogwuin, or Star Dragons, near Murkhana and incur the leviathans' wrath. The Star Dragons attack Coruscant, sparking mass panic,[31] but Supreme Chancellor Fillorean contacts the attackers and, upon discovering they are sentient, negotiates a peace with the philosopher Borz'Mat'oh.[34]
- Fillorean and Borz'Mat'oh collaborate to found the University of Coruscant.[34]
- 15,480 BBY
- The Strontium Raid on Abhean occurs.[31]
- c. 15,400 BBY
- The Second Alsakan Conflict comes to an end.[31]
Kymoodon Era (15,000 BBY-11,987 BBY)
- c. 15,000 BBY
- The Kymoodon Era begins.[1]
- The Anomids of Yablari join the Republic.[38]
- The Hutt Cataclysms come to an end; by this time, the Hutt homeworld of Varl and the other colony worlds are lifeless wastes, forcing the Hutts to relocate to Evocar.[1]
- The Galactic Senate heeds calls for the reestablishment of the Republic Navy.[31]
- The Cremlevian War, which sees the Yuuzhan Vong conquer many of the planets in their galaxy before turning on themselves, comes to an end, and their homeworld Yuuzhan'tar strips the species of their ability to use the Force.[12]
- The Aquala and Quara species fight a civil war, but unite when an offworld exploratory vessel lands on Ando. The united Aqualish species kill the explorers and take their ship, learning to reproduce it.[4]
- A few decades later, the Aqualish embark on a campaign of conquest, but are quickly stopped by the Republic.[4]
- Dahrtag, later known more commonly as Necropolis, is first settled by a religious order who are appalled by the way that Core cultures have grown more similar to each other. They set aside parts of the world for each culture, and invite any culture to inter their dead on the planet in their specific tradition.[39]
- 14,743 BBY
- The Herglic Crush occurs; one of the casualties of the event is the Caliginous Automaton on the planet Tomo-Reth.[1]
- c. 14,500 BBY
- The Third Alsakan Conflict begins with the Commenor Run Campaign.[31]
- 14,450 BBY
- The Cleansing of Rucapar occurs, a battle that sees the Alsakan Mosaics in the city of Rucapar destroyed by Republic forces.[31]
- 14,300 BBY
- The Third Alsakan Conflict comes to an end; during the final stages of fighting, the Duros Red Credit Brigade is defeated.[1]
- Nikato's Bootheel is established around the planet Raxus Prime.[1]
- c. 14,000 BBY
- A number of Sith establish a library-temple on the world of Krayiss II where they slumber and their spirits haunt the temple for the next 10,000 years.[40]
- The Korden family first appears.[41]
- Duros scouts discover the planet Sneeve and the Sneevel species in the Expansion Region.[39]
- c. 13,800 BBY
- The Fourth Alsakan Conflict begins.[31]
- 13,649 BBY
- The Defence of Drogheda takes place.[31]
- 13,220 BBY
- The Conquest of Manaan occurs.[31]
- c. 13,200 BBY
- The Fourth Alsakan Conflict comes to an end.[31]
- c. 13,050 BBY
- The Fifth Alsakan Conflict begins.[31]
- c. 13,000 BBY
- The Herglic Trade Empire joins the Republic, sparking development around the Hidakai Pool route.[1]
- The planet Ailon becomes a member of the Republic.[42]
- 12,980 BBY
- 12,720 BBY
- The planet Pelagon in the future Tapani sector is first settled by large colony ships, and the colonists soon settle other worlds in the region.[36]
- c. 12,700 BBY
- The Resistance on Cyrillia occurs.[31]
- The Fifth Alsakan Conflict comes to an end.[31]
- c. 12,293 BBY
- An expedition led by Doctor Beramsh conducts the first surveys of the planet Tandun III.[43]
- c. 12,000 BBY
- Ithorian herdships make first contact with the Republic.[1]
- The planet Ord Mantell is settled by explorers and colonists from Corellia, and the planet becomes an Ordnance/Regional Depot that later serves as a basis for the Seventh Pius Dea Crusade.[1]
- Starting from the planet Gyndine, scouts start to establish the Ootmian Pabol route, bridging the gap between the Republic and Hutt Space.[1]
- Haddius Korden, a successful merchant from Corulag, turned his family business into Korden Outfitting and Surveying, which supplied a wide variety of equipment to colonists headed for the farthest frontiers of the known galaxy.[41]
Pius Dea Era (11,987 BBY-10,966 BBY)
- 11,987 BBY
- Supreme Chancellor Pers'lya is impeached by the Pius Dea, a religious sect who install the Human adherent Contispex. Contispex's election begins the Pius Dea Era.[31]
- 11,965 BBY
- Contispex I sanctions a military invasion of Hutt Space—the First Pius Dea Crusade. The crusade is the first of a series of Pius Dea Crusades that are military crusades against alien species by the increasingly-Pius Dea Galactic Republic.[31]
- 11,947 BBY
- Contispex I steps down as Supreme Chancellor and is succeeded by his son Contispex II.[31]
- 11,939 BBY
- Contispex II sanctions the Third Pius Dea Crusade, yet another invasion of Hutt Space.[31]
- 11,933 BBY
- The Jedi Order retreats to Ossus and severs all ties with the Pius Dea–dominated Republic, beginning their Recusal. A number of Jedi who are loyal to the Pius Dea form the Order of the Terrible Glare and settle on the planet Garn.[31]
- 11,920 BBY
- The Fourth Pius Dea Crusade begins against the Hutts.[31]
- 11,884 BBY
- The Seventh Pius Dea Crusade, also known as the Great Northern Crusade, begins against the Zabrak and other species native to the northern region of the galaxy.[31]
- c. 11,820 BBY
- The Sixth Alsakan Conflict begins as the Alsakani ally with the Duros, Herglics, and the Hutts against the Pius Dea-controlled Republic; however, the conflict ends with a Republic victory.[31]
- 11,791 BBY
- The Tenth Pius Dea Crusade, also known as the Crusade of the Wilds, begins.[31]
- 11,708 BBY
- The Colonial Era of the Tapani sector ends, beginning the Twelve Kingdoms Era.[36]
- 11,707 BBY
- The Eleventh Pius Dea Crusade against the Herglics begins.[31]
- 11,660 BBY
- The Twelfth Pius Dea Crusade against the Zarracines and the Teirasans begins.[31]
- Republic forces conduct an orbital bombardment of Zarracina III, turning its surface into an irradiated wasteland and forcing the native Zarracines into a nomadic existence.[44]
- 11,600s BBY
- Republic citizens fleeing the Pius Dea settle the planet Prefsbelt IV.[31]
- 11,591 BBY
- The Fifteenth Pius Dea Crusade against the Baragwin begins.[31]
- 11,198 BBY
- The Twenty-Third Pius Dea Crusade against the Bothans and the Lanniks begins.[31]
- c. 11,100 BBY
- The Inquisitions begin in the Core Worlds and the Colonies, and the Jedi Order end their Recusal.[31]
- 11,057 BBY
- The Thirty-Fourth Pius Dea Crusade against the Hutts begins.[31]
- 10,970s BBY
- The Renunciate Admiral Pers Pradeux discovers Prefsbelt IV and makes it a retreat for Renunciate naval officers in their efforts to overthrow the Pius Dea.[31]
- 10,967 BBY
- The Renunciation: The Renunciate movement, a splinter faction of the Pius Dea that has renounced their faith, reveals itself and allies with the Alsakani, Caamasi, and the Jedi Order. This splits the Pius Dea faith from within, pitting the Faithful against those who have abandoned the faith, and signals the start of the Seventh Alsakan Conflict.[31]
- Renunciate forces clash with Faithfuls at Fondor, Ixtlar, and Cyrillia, supported by the Jedi, Alsakani, Duros, Herglics, and Hutts.[31]
- 10,966 BBY
- The Bureau of Ships and Services seed the Republic Navy with rogue navicomputer codes, which forces the Pius Dea's ships to jump randomly to hyperspace and become lost forever.[31]
- At the Battle of Uquine, the Renunciate forces annihilate the remaining Pius Dea ships. The Jedi capture Contispex XIX aboard the Flame of Sinthara, taking him to Caamas where he stands trial and is imprisoned.[31]
Ductavis Era (10,966 BBY-9000 BBY)
- 10,966 BBY
- Grand Master Biel Ductavis assumes the position of Supreme Chancellor; his ascension heralds the end of the Pius Dea era and the start of the Ductavis Era.[31]
- 10,000 BBY
- The historian Vicendi compiles a list of the Twenty Wonders of the Galaxy for his Arturum Galactinum, a work commissioned for the Republic's anniversary.[1]
- Ryloth enters the Galactic Republic. (Approximate date)[1]
- The Gran species begin to record their history. (Approximate date)[4]
- Ammuud is settled as a religious retreat by colonists from Thokos. (Approximate date)[1]
- The Kumauri Empire comes into conflict with the Republic, deploying planet-busting battleships with mass drivers, though they are defeated. (Approximate date)[31]
- The planet New Plympto and its Nosaurian inhabitants are discovered by Corellian traders. (Approximate date)[34]
- Madilon is discovered and becomes a principle component in hyperdrive manufacturing. (Approximate date)[41]
- 9757 BBY
- The Republic rocket-jumpers participate in the Second Herglic Feud.[42]
- 9400s BBY
- Planetary shielding begins to see widespread use across the galaxy.[31]
- 9349 BBY
- The Korden family officially becomes the noble House Korden.[41]
- 9200s BBY
- Planetary turbolasers are first commonly deployed around this time.[31]
Rianitus Period (9000 BBY-8000 BBY)
- 9000 BBY
- The Rianitus Period begins.[1]
- Jiroch-Reslia joins the Galactic Republic. (Approximate date)[45]
Subterra Period (8000 BBY-7000 BBY)
- 8000 BBY
- The Subterra Period begins.[1]
- Beginning of the Meri-Teltior War.
- The planet Malastare becomes a member of the Galactic Republic.[1]
- Elrood is colonized by the Galactic Republic.[46]
- Goroth Prime is discovered by Corellian pirates.[2]
- The star Colu expands, swallowing the planet Clak'dor I. (Approximate date)[22]
- 7811 BBY
- The Waymancy Storm occurs—a conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Signatories of Waymancy. The victorious Republic reverse-engineered the Sisters of the Machinesmith's power generator technology to develop far more powerful turbolaser weaponry.[31]
- 7700s BBY
- The Verpine master crafter Lyns Skutroo pioneers the squintpipe process for power generators, having reverse-engineered the Waymancy Hollow technology. As a result, shielding technology become important in combat, evolving from simply protection against environmental phenomena.[31]
- 7500s BBY
- Further refinement of the squintpipe process allows for increases in shield power and regeneration.[31]
- 7348 BBY
- The Twelve Kingdoms Era of the Expanse comes to an end as the warlord Shey Tapani begins the Unification War to unite the worlds of the region.[36]
- 7328 BBY
- The Unification War ends at the battle of Shindra's Veil, and Shey Tapani unites the Expanse under the banner of the Tapani Empire. He establishes his new government on Procopia, and also dedicates the Shey Tapani University on Estalle Island shortly after the Empire's founding.[36]
- 7308 BBY
- 7003 BBY
- The Second Great Schism occurs as a number of Dark Jedi split from the Jedi Order.[47]
Manderon Period (7000 BBY-5000 BBY)
- 7000 BBY
- The Meri-Teltior War ends. (Approximate date)
- Trandosha joins the Galactic Republic.
- Dathka Graush initiates a period of civil war on Korriban[1] upon ascending to the throne.[48]
- The Manderon Period begins.[1]
- The Hundred-Year Darkness begins in the aftermath of the Second Great Schism.[19]
- The Taung Mandalore the First leads his followers from the planet Roon to a new world, which his followers rename Mandalore in his honor. (Approximate date)[1]
- Republic scouts discover the Quermian system, where the Quermians have settled numerous worlds; within a few decades, the Quermians are active participants in the galactic community.[39]
- The Sith library Veeshas Tuwan is established on Arkania.[4]
- 6950 BBY
- Dathka Graush's reign comes to an end with his death at the hands of assassins.[48]
- 6900 BBY
- The Hundred-Year Darkness comes to an end with the Battle of Corbos. The defeated Dark Jedi are exiled from the Republic.[1]
- Ajunta Pall becomes the first Dark Lord of the Sith.
- The Exiles discover the Sith Empire on Korriban, which they quickly conquer and transform into a Force-using magocracy.[1]
- 6740 BBY
- 6700s BBY
- 6100s BBY
- 6100 BBY
- c. 6000 BBY
- 5975 BBY
- c. 5500 BBY
- The Rimma Trade Route is established by Sullustan pilots and Givin theorists, ushering in widespread colonization of the southern galaxy.[1]
- The Corellian Trade Spine is fully established, extending the ancient hyperroute that links Corellia and Duro all the way out to the edge of the galaxy.[1]
- 5451 BBY
- The Pathandr Fury occurs as the Mandalorian Crusaders raid Republic settlements.[31]
- c. 5300 BBY
- 5130s BBY
- The Nakat Incursions, a border conflict instigated by the Mandalorians, occurs.[31]
- 5103 BBY
- 5100 BBY
- Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos appoints Tenebrae ruler of Nathema, granting him the title of Lord Vitiate.[49]
- 5010 BBY
- Teta ascends to the throne of the planet Koros Major, and soon begins the Unification Wars in an attempt to unite the seven worlds of the Koros system under her rule.[1]
Post-Manderon period (5000 BBY-4000 BBY)
- 5000 BBY
- The Unification Wars come to an end, with the Koros system united under Empress Teta's rule.[1]
- Belsavis enters an ice age. (Approximate date)
- Marka Ragnos dies, prompting a duel between the rival Sith Lords Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow, who both seek to succeed Ragnos. As Ragnos's spirit looks on, Sadow emerges victorious and is anointed the new Dark Lord of the Sith.[50]
- The Great Hyperspace War—a galactic conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire—erupts when two young hyperspace scouts, Gav and Jori Daragon, accidentally make contact with the Sith.[1]
- The Manderon Period ends.[1]
- Sadow instigates the Great Hyperspace War in hopes of conquering the Republic, invading major Republic worlds such as Coruscant and the Koros system along the Daragon Trail hyperlane.[1]
- The Dark Reaper is constructed. (Approximate date)
- Holocron of King Adas is lost on the planet Ashas Ree following the death of its owner, Lord Garu.[51]
- Sadow's forces are ultimately driven back when his forces are revealed to be largely illusions, and Sadow flees back to the Sith Empire, where he is confronted by Ludo Kressh.[1]
- Sadow escapes after destroying Kressh's fleet just ahead of a Republic fleet pursuing him, and ultimately finds refuge on the moon of Yavin 4.[1]
- The Sith starship Omen crashes on the remote planet Kesh, stranding its crew as the Lost Tribe of Sith, while its sister ship Harbinger is thrown into the future and arrives around 41 ABY.[52]
- Supreme Chancellor Pultimo orders an invasion of the Stygian Caldera to wipe out the remains of the Sith Empire.[1]
- A supernova occurs in the Moddell sector, forming the Din Pulsar. (Approximate date)[1]
- Duros scouts discover the planet Adnerem. (Approximate date)[53]
- Csilla undergoes an ice age, blanketing its surface with glaciers and forcing the Chiss species to move underground. (Approximate date)[18]
- The symbol of the Academy of Carida is carved into the moon of Carida, earning it the name of the Mascot Moon. (Approximate date)[54]
- The Star Cabal is founded. (Approximate date)
- 4999 BBY
- Vitiate calls the remaining Sith Lords of the Empire to his homeworld of Nathema, where he binds their wills to his own and conducts a powerful ritual of Sith magic. The Ritual of Nathema strips the Force from the entire planet, killing everyone on the world except Vitiate; Vitiate is made immortal and immensely powerful, becoming the Sith Emperor.[49]
- Blaming Nathema's destruction on the Jedi, the Sith Emperor gathers the remains of the Empire and embarks on a length exodus from Sith Space.[49]
- 4985 BBY
- Ravilan Wroth poisons a Keshiri village with cyanogen silicate in an attempt to encourage the Lost Tribe to escape from Kesh, but Seelah Korsin poisons more villages and frames Wroth for the massacre. Wroth and the fifty-seven remaining pureblood Sith are executed as a result.[55]
- 4980 BBY
- The Sith exiles arrive on the planet Dromund Kaas, where the Sith Emperor establishes a reconstituted Sith Empire.[49]
- 4975 BBY
- The Skyborn Rangers are founded.
- Yaru Korsin dies following an uprising led by his wife Seelah, and his daughter Nida succeeds him as Grand Lord.[56]
- 4960 BBY
- c. 4904 BBY
- Grand Moff Odile Vaiken's final campaign against alien species ends with his death.[58]
- 4896 BBY
- Nida Korsin's seventy-nine-year reign as Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith ends with her death.[59]
- 4800 BBY
- The Gank Massacres begin: with the discovery of the spice ryll, the newly-discovered Porporite species is whipped into a homicidal frenzy by the spice, prompting various factions to hire mercenaries from the Gank species to protect them. The Gank exterminated the Porporites and went on a violent rampage of their own.[9]
- 4789 BBY
- 4775 BBY
- The Gank Massacres are brought to an end by Jedi Knights and the Juggernaut war droids, droids commissioned by Chancellor Vocatara to assist the Republic against the Ganks.[42]
- c. 4645 BBY
- The Sith Lord Darth Drear establishes a Sith academy on Odacer-Faustin, under which he builds a secret temple to store his holocron.[60]
- 4606 BBY
- The Sith Lord Kel'eth Ur is killed for his heretical light side teachings by the Sith Emperor, and his body is entombed in the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas.[61]
- c. 4600 BBY
- Roughly around this time, a group of Jedi including the Duinuogwuin Willm Lywin establish the Teyan Praxeum on the planet Teya IV.[62]
- 4598 BBY
- The core of the Black Codex is created.[28]
- c. 4500 BBY
- Parties from the Republic begin to contact the planet Kamino, seeking to make use of the Kaminoans' exceptional cloning technology.[1]
- By this time, Republic scouts had discovered the star systems of the future Corporate Sector.[1]
- The Altiri and Anarrians come into contact with each other, sparking a global conflict that lasts for almost six hundred years.[18]
- An independent scout vessel drops out of hyperspace too close to the gravity well of the planet Iol, causing the pilot to crash on the planet and inadvertently uncovering a large vein of ore used in the creation of durasteel. The pilot names the planet Iol and submits a claim to the world, but Tangan Industries intercepts and modifies his claim to give the company rights to the world.[18]
- The Barabel War, a millennia-long conflict among the Barabel species, erupts due to disputes over hunting grounds on their homeworld of Barab I.[12]
- King Morn of Dac became the first ruler to unite the Mon Calamari and Quarren people under one monarchy.[63]
- c. 4498 BBY
- Tangan Industries has completed a full mining colony on Iol, which expands into three cities scattered across the planet over the next few centuries.[18]
- 4400 BBY
- After being denied Knighthood, a Padawan named Freedon Nadd explores the Yavin system and encounters Naga Sadow's spirit, who sways Nadd to the dark side of the Force. Nadd kills Sadow's spirit and establishes himself as a king on the planet Onderon, where he institutes a policy to banish criminals into the wilds beyond the walls of the city of Iziz. Nadd establishes a dynasty of dark side-wielding monarchs.[9][19]
- The exiled criminals manage to tame Onderon's wild beasts to become the Beast Riders, and the Beast Riders wage war on Iziz, sparking the Beast Wars.[9]
- The Mon Calamari of Dac begin to launch starliners to colonize planets around their homeworld over the next two centuries. (Approximate date)[1]
- Around this time, a team of Jedi Knights including the Devaronian Chamma are sent to investigate a distress call on the planet Athiss. There, the group is attacked by Sith devotees, and Chamma succumbs to the dark side during the encounter. Disappointed in his failure, Chamma goes into self-imposed exile on H'ratth. (Approximate date)[64]
- 4300 BBY
- The Miraluka Jedi Master Noab Hulis arrives on H'ratth and speaks with Chamma, convincing him to return to the light and end his exile.[64]
- 4250 BBY
- The Third Great Schism erupts as Dark Jedi wage war against their fellows on Coruscant. The Dark Jedi are eventually driven off-world and retreat to the Vultar system, where their attempt to harness the power of the Cosmic Turbine ends in the Vultar Cataclysm—the annihilation of the entire Vultar system.[9]
- The wingmaw and its primary predator, the Balmorran maweater, are accidentally carried from their home island chain to the mainland of the planet Balmorra. (Approximate date)[65]
- c. 4241 BBY
- Suudaa Nem'ro is born on Nal Hutta.
- 4225 BBY
- The Kaikieli Reconquista—Jedi Master Vandar Tokare and his two Padawans lead Republic troops in conquering the corrupt world of Kaikielius.[44]
- c. 4200 BBY
- The Mecrosa Order is founded on Nyssa by Viscountess Mireya, though the organization is corrupted—allegedly by Mireya herself—by Sith teachings over the next two centuries.[19]
- The planet Tatooine is first settled by offworlders.[1]
- The planet Argazda seeks to be admitted to the Republic.[1]
- The Hapes Cluster becomes a haven for the Lorell Raiders, a group of pirates who prowl the Perlemian for generations.[1]
- The planet Arkanis is colonized by pilgrims from Ator.[1]
- c. 4100s BBY
- New navicomputer technology begins to render jump-beacons obsolete.[31]
- 4166 BBY
- The Mon Calamari species makes first contact with the Republic when Republic scouts encounter Mon Calamari starships near Ruisto.[1]
- The planet Darvannis is discovered by spice smugglers in the Calaron sector. (Approximate date)[66]
- 4129 BBY
- The Luire system is discovered and surveyed by the Republic.[41]
- c. 4100 BBY
- 4086 BBY
- Trampeta's Star Guide is first published.[67]
- 4085 BBY
- A vintage of wine that will become known as the particularly rare Ord Mantell 432 BTC is produced on Ord Mantell.[28]
- 4070 BBY
- 4067 BBY
- c. 4056 BBY
- The Dynamet Corporation donates a large sum of credits to the hospital Mercy General on Taris for the construction of a wing devoted to curing the rakghoul plague. The hospital is renamed Dynamet General in thanks.[69]
- Around this time, civil war breaks out between Taris's nobility and the planet's largely alien lower class. The conflict is sparked when rising levels of toxic pollution poison the planet's oceans and famine sweeps the city-world, and the nobility begin to hoard food for themselves. Though the lower classes rise up against the nobility, the rebellion is ultimately crushed after millions died in the fighting.[17]
- c. 4050 BBY
- Scouts from the planet Shor discover the planet Giaca.[18]
- Drokko Kira is banished from the city of Iziz for challenging the dark side legacy of Freedon Nadd.[70]
- c. 4043 BBY
- The Dark Councilors Darth Victun and Darth Qalar fight a Kaggath that destroys the Imperial Citadel, and both Sith are killed by the rest of the Council when it ends in a draw.[71]
- The Sith Lord Darth Nostrem rebuilds the Imperial Citadel according to the Emperor's designs, and is cast into its depths upon its completion.[26]
- 4030 BBY
- Arca Jeth and a number of Jedi Knights devastate the Lorell Raiders at the Battle of Lorell, forcing the survivors to retreat to the Hapes Cluster. The Raiders and their female prisoners eventually evolve into the matriarchal and isolationist Hapes Consortium.[12]
- 4024 BBY
- The Nevoota Extinction begins as the Mandalorians attack the planet Nevoota.[31]
- 4021 BBY
- 4020 BBY
- The Czerka Corporation discovers Kashyyyk, the homeworld of the Wookiee species, and claims the planet while renaming it "Edean."[1]
- 4017 BBY
- The Mandalorian Crusaders attack the planet Basilisk in the Battle of Basilisk. The Basiliskans are supported by Republic reinforcements under Jedi Master Sidrona Diath, but ultimately are overrun and seed their own homeworld with toxins to deny it to the Mandalorians.[31]
- The Mandalorians retreat from Basilisk, but take numerous Basiliskans, Basiliskian warships, and Basilisk war droids with them.[31]
- 4015 BBY
- The Great Droid Revolution: the Czerka assassin droid HK-01 seizes power by subverting the programming of thousands of droids and turning them against their masters. Jedi intervention finally brings the conflict to an end after three months.[31]
- 4009 BBY
- 4008 BBY
- The Jedi Jev Sunrider dies on Krayiss II.[72]
- 4007 BBY
- The Quesaya Border Conflict erupts, and the Republic rocket-jumpers play a role in ending the conflict.[42]
- Jev Sunrider's Force ghost appears to his grandson Andur Sunrider on Darada and warns him that he will play an important part in the coming war.[64]
- 4004 BBY
- 4003 BBY
- The Giju Passage is blazed by Herglic scouts, and within twenty-five years the route becomes an established trade route into Herglic space.[74]
- 4002 BBY
- 4001 BBY
- Andur Sunrider arrives on the planet H'ratth and begins his Jedi training under Master Chamma.[64]
Old Sith Wars (4000 BBY-3950 BBY)
- 4000 BBY
- The Kyyr system is enveloped in a supernova, forming the Thornhedge Nebula and Pulsar and also devastating the Ootmian Pabol. (Approximate date)[1]
- The planet Ession is colonized. (Approximate date)[75]
- The Exchange is founded. (Approximate date)
- The Omwati establish a colony on Coruscant.
- Muzara is colonized.
- Flashpoint Stellar Research Station is established on the planet Flashpoint.[76]
- Jedi Master Arca Jeth sends his three apprentices, Ulic Qel-Droma, Cay Qel-Droma, and Tott Doneeta, to Onderon in order to bring an end to the ongoing Beast Wars. Their mission soon goes awry when Princess Galia is kidnapped during a Beast Rider raid on Iziz. The Jedi pursue Galia, only to discover that she intends to marry the Beast Rider Oron Kira, and Onderon's royal family are practitioners of the dark side.[9]
- Their attempts to negotiate a peace with Queen Amanoa fail when she unleashes the dark side against them, and the Beast Riders lay siege to Iziz. Arca Jeth arrives and lends his battle meditation to the Beast Riders, bringing about their victory, and his powerful presence in the light side causes Freedon Nadd's spirit to abandon Queen Amanoa and leave her to die. Galia and Kira are married and assume the throne of Onderon.[9]
- 3999 BBY
- Nomi Sunrider becomes Thon's apprentice after the death of her husband Andur.[77]
- 3998 BBY
- The Freedon Nadd Uprising erupts on Onderon as King Ommin leads an army of dark side-empowered Naddists against the Jedi Order and Beast Riders. The Naddists interrupt Amanoa's funeral and capture Arca Jeth, and also succeed in recovering the sarcophagi of both Amanoa and Freedon Nadd.[9]
- The Galactic Republic and additional Jedi Knights arrive on Onderon and engage Ommin's army, and the Jedi ultimately defeat Ommin and liberate Arca Jeth. At the same time, the Tetan nobles Aleema Keto and Satal Keto, who were visiting Ommin and learning Sith lore from the king, escape back to their home system of Empress Teta and become Freedon Nadd's new apprentices.[9]
- 3997 BBY
- The Keto cousins stage a military and political coup in the Empress Teta system, seizing control of the system from their parents as they establish the Sith cult known as the Krath. The coup begins the Krath Holy Crusade.[78]
- A Republic and Jedi task force comes to the aid of the planet Empress Teta, which has managed to hold off the Krath, but the Sith cult drives the Republic out of the system at the Battle of Koros Major. Ulic Qel-Droma is infected by Aleema Keto's Sith magic during an attack on the Republic's command ship Reliance I, and he unknowingly begins to slip towards the dark side.[79]
- The Jedi Conclave at Deneba is disrupted by Krath war droids, and the servant droids at the conclave attack the Jedi at the event. The Jedi destroy their attackers, but Arca Jeth is killed by Krath droids in the battle.[80]
- Ulic Qel-Droma attempts to infiltrate the Krath from within, but is seduced to the dark side by Aleema Keto. Qel-Droma kills Satal and becomes the Krath's leader alongside Aleema, and a Jedi rescue mission fails when Qel-Droma refuses to depart.[81]
- Around the same time, The power-hungry Jedi Exar Kun searches for Sith teachings and discovers the spirit of Freedon Nadd on Onderon's moon Dxun, where he is trained in the ways of the dark side before heading to Yavin 4 to acquire more power. Kun ultimately kills Nadd's spirit and seeks out Ulic Qel-Droma to eliminate a potential rival.[82]
- Nomi Sunrider organizes a second rescue mission at the same time that Kun arrives on Empress Teta, and Kun and Qel-Droma clash in a duel. However, the duel is ended by the spirit of Marka Ragnos, who anoints Kun and Qel-Droma as Dark Lords of the Sith as well as Master and apprentice. Joining forces with Kun, Qel-Droma refuses Sunrider's attempt at a rescue, and the two Sith form the Brotherhood of the Sith.[83]
- Several slivilith - living probe creatures created by the Yuuzhan Vong - appear in the galaxy.
- 3996 BBY
- In the Duel on Kuar on the Plains of Harkul, Ulic Qel-Droma defeats Mandalore the Indomitable in combat, winning his loyalty.
- Exar Kun locates and reactivates the Dark Reaper, and begins using it to conquer planets.
- After months of conquering planets from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim, the Sith launch their attack on Coruscant. During the battle, Ulic Qel-Droma is captured and subsequently put on trial for treason.
- Mandalore the Indomitable is defeated by the Republic at the Battle of Onderon and killed by the beasts of Dxun. He is succeeded by Mandalore the Ultimate.
- Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma turns away from the dark side.
- Exar Kun is defeated at the Battle of Yavin 4 by Ulic Qel-Droma and the Republic.
- The Dark Reaper is deactivated and its power source, the Force Harvester, is hidden on Raxus Prime.
- Both the Great Sith War and the Krath Holy Crusade end with the Recapture of the Empress Teta system.
- Mandalore the Ultimate begins secretly summoning clans from across the galaxy, building up arms and ships on Dxun, working toward the day when a new crusade can be launched.
- The Jedi Order create the Lost City of the Jedi to aide the recovery of the planet Yavin 4's ecology as well as to ensure that Exar Kun never returned again.
- An attack by the Sith devastates Mustafar—the gas giant Lefrani is tugged out of its orbit by a dark side weapon, causing Mustafar to be caught between the gravitational fields of Lefrani and the gas giant Jestefad. All life on the planet's surface dies as the surface is ripped apart by immense tidal stresses.[1]
- The Jedi Order relocates to Coruscant following Ossus's devastation.[1]
- 3995 BBY
- The Restoration Period begins for the Republic.[84]
- The Great Hunt, a Jedi campaign to eradicate the Sithspawn known as terentateks, begins.[9]
- 3994 BBY
- Carth Onasi is born on Telos IV.
- Ulic Qel-Droma revisits Yavin 4 to learn what had happened to Exar Kun, but is unable to learn anything as to his former comrade's fate.[85]
- Revan is born on an unknown planet, believed to be somewhere in the Outer Rim Territories.
- 3993 BBY
- During the Great Hunt, Jedi Knights successfully cleanse the planet Tatooine of terentateks. The Great Hunt is officially ended, but the Jedi Council secretly dispatches three Knights—Duron Qel-Droma, Shaela Nuur, and Guun Han Saresh—to seek out and eradicate the last of the terentateks on Korriban.[86]
- The trio's mission falls apart when Saresh, furious that Nuur and Qel-Droma are in a relationship, strikes out on his own and hunts down a terentatek on Kashyyyk. Saresh is killed by the terentatek, and Nuur and Qel-Droma are killed by their target in the caves of Korriban.[86]
- Krynda Draay, daughter of Noab Hulis and widow of Barrison Draay, is roused from the depression that the Sith War put her in when she meets the Miraluka child Q'Anilia. Q'Anilia's powers of precognition impress the half-Miraluka seer, and inspires Draay to found a Jedi Covenant dedicated to preventing the rise of the Sith.[87]
- 3988 BBY
- The Arkanian Offshoot Edessa is born on Osadia.[88] Wyrick believes her to be his greatest success in the New Generation Project, and her name—Edessa, or "triumph"—reflects that.[89]
- Krynda Draay receives a Force vision that becomes known as the Prophecy of the Five. The prophecy foretells five individuals—one for the light, one for the dark, one for the dark in the light, one for the light in the dark, and one who stands alone—that will play pivotal roles in the next great conflict in which "all that has been built will fall."[90]
- 3986 BBY
- Nomi Sunrider, by now the head of the Jedi Order, calls a conclave of the Order on Exis Station. However, the conclave is interrupted when Nomi's daughter Vima steals an ion mining vessel and is nearly killed before Tott Doneeta rescues her. Vima seeks out Ulic Qel-Droma on Rhen Var and becomes his student, studying the ways of the Force.[9]
- The Cathar Jedi Sylvar tracks down Ulic on Rhen Var and attacks him for his crimes and the death of her master Crado during the Great Sith War. Their duel ends when Qel-Droma refuses to fight, freeing Sylvar from the grips of her rage; however, the spacer Hoggon shoots Qel-Droma moments later in hopes of gaining fame.[9]
- 3985 BBY
- The Coruscant Financial Exchange Establishment act speeds the restoration of the devastated Galactic Republic by allowing corporations to invest in the government's infrastructure in return for guaranteeing safe passage through increasingly treacherous hyperspace routes.[84]
- 3984 BBY
- Darth Xedrix begins to serve on the Dark Council. (Approximate date)[49]
- 3982 BBY
- Zayne Carrick is born on Phaeda.
- 3980 BBY
- Vima Sunrider makes an entry in the Great Holocron regarding Ulic Qel-Droma's redemption and death.[19]
- 3978 BBY
- 3977 BBY
- The planet Vortex is inducted into the Republic.[1]
- Zayne Carrick is discovered by the Jedi Order and brought to the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine.[91]
- 3976 BBY
- The Mandalorian Wars begin with the Battle of Althir.[1]
- A gang war erupts between the Hidden Beks and Black Vulkars, two swoop gangs on Taris.[17]
- 3973 BBY[84]
- Cassus Fett leads the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders in the Battle of Cathar—Fett's forces wipe out over 90% of the Cathar population on their homeworld.[84]
- 3970 BBY
- Mission Vao is born on an unknown planet.
- Argazda's Provisional Governor Myrial declares the Kanz sector independent, renaming it the Argazdan Redoubt and instigating the bloody Kanz Disorders. (Approximate date)[1]
- 3969 BBY
- The First WatchCircle of the Jedi Covenant—Feln, Lucien Draay, Q'Anilia, Raana Tey, and Xamar—are assigned five Padawans: Oojoh, Zayne Carrick, Shad Jelavan, Kamlin, Gharn. The five Padawans are transferred to the Jedi Tower on Taris, where their new Jedi Masters are stationed.[90]
- 3968 BBY
- The Adasca BioMechanical Corporation of Arkania begins offering "genetic solutions" to Arkanian Offshoot employees.[92]
- 3967 BBY
- The Jedi Knight Jelph Marrian is expelled from the Order after alienating the Jedi Council, and he joins the Jedi Covenant as a Shadow.[57]
- 3966 BBY
- The planet Taris is admitted to the Republic after a number of corporations, including Lhosan Industries, successfully bribe Senators into admitting their world.[31]
- The parents of Shad, Shay, and Shel Jelavan are killed in an accident in the Middle City of Taris.[93]
- 3965 BBY
- 3964 BBY
- The Mandalorians clash with the Republic at the Jebble-Vanquo-Tarnith line for several weeks.
- The First WatchCircle of the Jedi Covenant commits the Padawan Massacre, the murder of their five Padawans on Taris, after the Rogue Moon Prophecy foretells a dark figure who will bring destruction to the galaxy—a figure they believe is one of their Padawans. The Padawan Zayne Carrick arrives late and escapes with the con man Marn Hierogryph, but is framed for the Massacre.[94]
- Carrick escapes from the Jedi Tower after his capture, and his escape sparks rioting and mass panic across Taris as the public loses faith in the Jedi. Mandalore the Ultimate views this as a signal to attack and takes the planet Vanquo just as the year ends.
- 3963 BBY
- The Mandalorians break through the Republic lines and begin the Taris Siege, and proceed to invade the Republic through three separate corridors in what becomes known as the Onslaught. One of those corridors sees the nuclear devastation of Serroco, though the Mandalorians' offensives are all halted by the end of the year.
- Q'Anilia commits suicide after being led to believe that her mentor and mother figure, Krynda Draay, had died.[95]
- The Revanchists, a group of young interventionist Jedi led by a charismatic Knight known as "the Revanchist", uncover evidence of the Battle of Cathar. In light of the Mandalorians' actions, the Jedi Council begrudgingly sanctions the Revanchists' entrance into the Mandalorian Wars, and the Revanchist adopts the name Revan.
- A Yuuzhan Vong scout arrives in Wild Space.[17]
- 3962 BBY
- The Mandalorian launch a Coreward campaign known as the Mandalorian Triumph that sees them breach the Core Worlds as far as Duro.[1] However, Revan and his friend Malak arrive at the Battle of Duro with a fleet of Interdictor-class cruisers, preventing the Mandalorians from escaping with war matériel. As a result, Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa appoints Revan the Supreme Commander of the Republic Military.[31]
- 3961 BBY
- Over the course of this and the next year, Revan leads the Republic in rolling back the Mandalorians' advances, though often at the cost of civilians thanks to "moral shortcuts."
- Lillia Venn becomes Grand Lord on Kesh.[57]
- 3960 BBY
- The Mandalorian Wars come to an end at the Battle of Malachor V, where Revan kills Mandalore the Ultimate and the Mass Shadow Generator wipes out most of the Mandalorian and Republic fleets while destroying the planet's surface.[31]
- 3959 BBY
- The Jedi Civil War begins.[17]
- Turned to the dark side by the Sith Emperor, Revan and Malak find the Star Forge and, after breaking free of the Emperor's control, form their own Sith Empire to invade the Republic.
- The assassin droid HK-47 is constructed.
- Battle of Foerost.
- Bombing of Telos IV.[17]
- 3957 BBY
- Revan is captured onboard his flagship, after Malak turns against him. Bastila Shan brings Revan back to the Jedi, who use the Force to strip his memories and create a new identity for him.[17]
- 3956 BBY
- Destruction of Taris which results with most of the planet destroyed.[17]
- Revan and Bastila along with their companions begin to look for the Star Maps spread across four planets (Korriban, Kashyyyk, Tatooine, and Manaan) after finding one on Dantooine.
- Attack on Dantooine.[17]
- At the Battle of Rakata Prime, Revan kills Malak in a lightsaber duel, and the Republic Fleet destroys the Star Forge.[17]
- End of the Jedi Civil War.[17]
- The Sith Civil War begins.[9]
- The Order of Shasa is founded on Manaan.
- 3955 BBY
- Sith Lords, formerly loyal to Darth Revan and Malak, begin breaking the Sith Empire into smaller domains, declaring themselves sovereign warlords.[84]
- The Sith Triumvirate is formed.[84]
- First Jedi Purge begins.[96]
- Supreme Chancellor Tol Cressa starts the Telosian Restoration Project, for which the Aratech Repulsor Company launches the G0-T0 droid series.[67]
- 3954 BBY
- Sith assassins, under orders from Darth Sion, begin a widespread assassination campaign against the Jedi, who soon are all but wiped out.[84]
- The remnants of the Sith Empire are mostly unified by Darth Traya, Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus.[84]
- Vaner Shan is born.
- Darth Xedrix is killed by Lord Scourge.[49]
- 3952 BBY
- The Conclave on Katarr is called to discuss the future of the Jedi Order.[96]
- Vandar Tokare dies.[96]
- The Sith Lord Darth Nihilus uses his massive Force powers to feed on the life on Katarr, destroying all life on the planet (except for the Miraluka Visas Marr) and virtually wipes out the Jedi Order.[96]
- The Conclave on Katarr is called to discuss the future of the Jedi Order.[96]
- 3951 BBY
- Canderous Ordo, known as Mandalore the Preserver, reunites the Mandalorian clans and aids in the fight against the remnants of the Sith Empire.[96]
- The Czerka Corporation, though not entirely legal means, attempts to take control over the Telosian Restoration Project.[96]
- Meetra Surik is discovered aboard the Ebon Hawk by Kreia.[96]
- Lonna Vash dies.[96]
- Battle of Khoonda.[96]
- Kavar dies.[96]
- Zez-Kai Ell dies.[96]
- Vrook Lamar dies.[96]
- Blockade of Onderon.[96]
- Second Battle of Onderon.[96]
- Battle of Telos IV.[96]
- Darth Nihilus dies.[9]
- Meetra Surik reestablishes connection to the Force, then kills Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion and Darth Traya, who have spent the last five years assassinating Jedi.[96]
- Battle of Malachor.[96]
- Darth Sion dies.[96]
- Kreia dies.[84]
- First Jedi Purge ends.[96]
- End of the Old Sith Wars.[84]
Inter-Sith Wars period (3950 BBY-2000 BBY)
- 3705 BBY
- The Brentaalan hyperspace explorer Freia Kallea bridges the gap between the Mandalorian Road and the Sprizen End Run.[1]
- 3704 BBY
- Freia Kallea blazes a route linking the Spurs of Celanon and the Morellian Trail, completing the northern end of the Hydian Way.[1]
- 3703–3702 BBY
- Freia Kallea charts a route south from Denon, linking the end of the Brentaal–Denon Route with the Dustig Trace. However, she crash-lands on the uncharted planet Nuvar thanks to interference from rivals, where she is stranded for six years.[1]
- 3701 BBY
- Kallea's route is expanded from the Dustig Trace to Seswenna and Clak'dor VII to the south over several years.[1]
- c. 3100 BBY
- The Hapan Queen Mother seals the borders of the Hapes Consortium, beginning thousands of years of isolation.[1]
- 3060 BBY
- Varner Hilts is born on Kesh.
- 3053 BBY
- Vandelhelm is discovered by two independent prospectors Vandel and Helm.[97]
- 3025 BBY
- Caretaker Varner Hilts coins the term "The Time of the Rot" to describe the period of upheaval and civil unrest on Kesh.[59]
- 3017 BBY
- The Seventeenth Alsakan Conflict, the last of such conflicts, comes to an end.[1]
- 3000 BBY
- The Paecian Empire colonizes the planet Dathomir,[1] using it as a penal colony. (Approximate date)[98]
- The Hapan Royal Guard, or Chume'doro, first begins service as the Queen Mother's protectors.[42]
- The planet Jabiim is colonized.[42]
- Varner Hilts becomes Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith.
- c. 2992 BBY[98]
- The Paecian Empire collapses.[98]
- c. 2989 BBY
- The Talecalle volcano chain erupts before entering a dormant stage that lasts for three thousand years.[99]
- 2367 BBY
- The first Priole Danna Festival is held on Lamuir IV.[100]
- 2320 BBY
- 2219 BBY
- The Saffa species begins a period that sees them create Saffa paintings.[101]
- 2203 BBY
- The Shapani Bypass was established, being used as a shortcut for Bacta transport between Thyferra and the Core Worlds.[74]
- 2200 BBY
- The Mining Guild claims the planet Ruusan along with a number of other worlds in the Teraab sector, but Ruusan's mineral deposits prove disappointing.[1]
- 2132 BBY
- The Breath Stealing occurs on Alphoresis, an event that claims the lives of every child under the age of eight.[102]
- c.2022 BBY
Draggulch Period (2000 BBY-1000 BBY)
- 2000 BBY[9]
- The Draggulch Period begins.[1]
- The New Sith Wars begins with the Fourth Great Schism: the Jedi Master Phanius leaves the Jedi Order with fifty followers and takes the name Darth Ruin as he founds the New Sith, igniting a thousand years of conflict with the Sith.[1]
- A group of families and friends of members of the Jedi Order flee the early battles of the New Sith Wars, settling on the Outer Rim planet of Yanibar in hopes of establishing a temporary refuge. However, the colonists' relatives and allies are killed during the conflict, causing Yanibar to be forgotten; the colonists develop the Zeison Sha Force tradition.[19]
- A Near-Human species immigrates to the planet Bimmisaari, where they adopt the culture of the native Bimms and are integrated into Bimm culture, also becoming known as Bimms.[4]
- 1989 BBY
- Bespin is first colonized with the commissioning of Cloud City.[84]
- 1960 BBY
- The Amulet of Kalara is fashioned. (Approximate date)[104]
- 1800 BBY
- An orbital bombardment of the planets in the Uba system, a preemptive strike by the Republic to deter the native Ubese from continuing to build banned weapons, ignites superweapon caches that engulf the planets in radioactive firestorms.[39] The native Ubese are nearly exterminated by the event,[1] with the only survivors on Uba IV; some are relocated to the Ubertica system, but the event sparks a deep-seated hatred of the Republic among the Ubese.[39]
- c. 1750 BBY
- The Dark Underlord seizes power and marshals his Black Knights, who raid space stations along the Zona Miki route. The Republic counter by hiring Mandalorian mercenaries who fight alongside the Jedi in battle at Malrev IV, where the Jedi Master Murrtaggh struck down the Dark Underlord.[51]
- 1582 BBY
- A military coup in the Tapani Empire brings down the Kappela Dynasty, and the region forms the Tapani Federation. The coup marks the transition from the Dynastic Era to the Federal Era of the region.[74]
- 1569 BBY
- The end of the height of Saffa paintings. (Approximate date)[101]
- 1500 BBY
- The Republic drafts a large number of soldiers and halts the Sith offensive at King's Galquek, Corphelion, and Hiit.[1]
- The Sayings, a collection of instructions about political strategy and conquest by Emperor Uueg Tching of Atrisia, are printed in a small run by the current Atrisian Emperor. The printing is a ploy by the Emperor to display his power to the Atrisian nobility, who are given the printed Sayings. (Approximate date)[99]
- 1486 BBY
- The Tapani Federation sends its first representatives to the Galactic Senate, and the Tapani sector is established as a Republic sector.[74]
- 1466 BBY
- The Battle of Mizra occurs, ending with a Jedi defeat.[1]
- c. 1419 BBY
- Dreypa's Oubliette is rediscovered on Jebble. (Approximate date)[105]
- c. 1300 BBY
- Republic scouts discover the planet Lan Barell in the ore-rich Lan system.[106]
- 1250 BBY
- The Sith Lord Belia Darzu comes to power, beginning a period known as the Sictis Wars as she unleashes her technobeasts.[1]
- 1230 BBY
- The Sictis Wars end with Darzu's death on Tython.[67]
- 1196 BBY
- Hathrox III undergoes a biochemical civil war that wipes out the entire population.[107]
- 1154 BBY
- The Bengali Uprising begins, which sees the planets Bengali and Thyrsus revolt against the rule of the Echani Command over the Six Sisters. Bengali rejoins the Echani Command less than a century later.[7]
- 1100 BBY
- The Republic Dark Age begins.[9]
- c. 1094 BBY
- The city of Zehava is founded on the planet Melida/Daan.[108]
- 1066 BBY
- The Sith Lord Vilia Calimondra instigates the Charge Matrica, a contest between her seven children to see which one would become her heir.[109]
- 1058 BBY
- The mercenary Aga Awaud returns to Mandalore and finds that the Candorian plague has killed his family and most of his clan, and that the Mandalorians are victims of raiders throughout Mandalorian Space. Appalled, Awaud leads a movement known as the Return in an effort to convince Mandalorians to defend their territory.[31]
- 1057 BBY
- 1052 BBY
- The Sith Lord Mandragall is seduced and then killed by Xelian.[109]
- 1051 BBY
- Awaud claims the title of Mandalore the Uniter, and leads Mandalorian Space through the remainder of the New Sith Wars to become a regional industrial and military power.[31]
- c. 1050 BBY
- Tarsus Valorum is born on Coruscant.[110]
- c. 1040 BBY
- 1032 BBY
- Jedi Master Vannar Treece begins Operation Influx to try and disrupt the Sith's export of baradium.[102]
- 1026 BBY
- Darth Bane, the founder of the Order of the Sith Lords, is born on Apatros.[112]
- 1010 BBY
- Jedi Master Skere Kaan abandons the Order with a group of like-minded Jedi, and within months his Brotherhood of Darkness emerges as the dominant Sith faction.[31]
- Lord Hoth decides to take the offensive against the Sith, and gathers Jedi Lords and bands of Knights behind his banner. The Grand Council of the Order ultimately declares all of the Jedi baronies united as the Army of Light under Hoth, who bears the title of Seneschal.[31]
- Darth Zannah is born on Somov Rit.
- 1006 BBY
- The Sith Academy on Korriban is reopened.[112]
- 1004 BBY
- 1002 BBY
- The Army of Light clashes with the Brotherhood of Darkness at Ruusan, beginning the Ruusan campaign.[1]
- 1000 BBY
- The Seventh Battle of Ruusan ends when Kaan, influenced by Darth Bane, uses the thought bomb to eradicate his enemies—but the thought bomb kills all of the Sith as well.[112]
The Great Peace of the Republic (1000 BBY-21.5 BBY)

- c. 1000 BBY
- Zorba Desilijic Tiure is born on Nal Hutta. (Approximate date)
- Aruk Besadii Aora is born on Nal Hutta. (Approximate date)
- Darth Bane founds the Order of the Sith Lords, a new Sith Order with only one master and one apprentice at a time, also known as the Rule of Two. Each subsequent Sith would bear the title Darth.
- Chancellor Tarsus Valorum presides over the Ruusan Reformation, which dismantles the Republic's central authority, abolishing the Republic's standing armed forces and reorganizing its millions of sectors into 1,024 regional sectors, each represented by a single Senator.[1]
- The Gran settle on Malastare and establish the Gran Protectorate. (Approximate date)
- The Chiss Ascendancy reaches its largest extent of twenty-eight colony worlds.
- The Republic Dark Age comes to an end.
- The last of the Rakata die out.
- 990 BBY
- Darth Bane goes to Tython and finds the holocron of Belia Darzu.
- The Khommites reach the pinnacle of their civilization.
- 980 BBY
- Darth Bane finds the holocron of Darth Andeddu.
- The Massacre on Doan occurs.
- Darth Zannah kills Darth Bane on Ambria and becomes the new Dark Lord of the Sith, taking on Darth Cognus as her apprentice.
- 965 BBY
- The Chiss Ascendancy passes the Non-Aggression Law.
- c. 915 BBY
- Sise Fromm is born.
- c. 902 BBY
- The Barabel War finally ends after many millennia.
- 899 BBY
- The Pact of Almera is signed, signifying Thyrsus' independence from the Echani Command.
- 896 BBY
- Yoda is born on an unknown planet, and later begins his training with Hysalrian Jedi Master N'Kata Del Gormo on an unknown swamp planet.
- Fae Coven, Grand Master of the Jedi Order, dies. (Approximate date)
- 881 BBY
- Popara Anjiliac Diresto is born on Nar Shaddaa.
- 873 BBY
- Industrial Automaton is founded.
- c. 867 BBY
- Naboo joins the Galactic Republic.[113]
- c. 850 BBY
- A box containing a 10,000 year old lightsaber is discovered on Ossus.
- c. 832 BBY
- The Theed Royal Palace is constructed.
- 796 BBY
- Yoda is granted the title of Jedi Master.
- c. 750 BBY
- Nam Chorios is established as a prison colony.
- 738 BBY
- The Mandalorian Excision occurs after Mandalore refuses to join the Republic in the wake of the Ruusan Reformation.
- c. 719 BBY
- The Aldera Royal Palace is constructed.
- 704 BBY
- The Outer Expansion Zone is established.
- 700 BBY
- B'omarr monks arrive on Tatooine.[1]
- An Alderaan Biotics operation is established on Borleias.
- Gardula Besadii the Elder is born on Nal Hutta.
- 690s BBY
- The Battles of the Black Delve are fought.
- c. 620 BBY
- The Antarian Rangers are established.
- 610 BBY
- Dewlannamapia is born on Kashyyyk.
- 600 BBY
- Zorba Desilijic Tiure takes control of the Desilijic kajidic. (Approximate date)
- The Jedi Knight Allya is exiled to Dathomir and would eventually found the Witches of Dathomir there.
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure is born on Nal Hutta.[114]
- A family of Tepasi nobles establish a profitable mining operation in the Christoph system. (Approximate date)
- c. 592 BBY
- Gandle Ott is colonized by Humans.
- 550 BBY
- The Bandit Alkhara moves into what would eventually become Jabba's Palace. His slaughter of a tribe of Sand people begins the centuries-long Tusken/Human blood feud.
- c. 533 BBY
- Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Gravid is slain by his apprentice, Darth Gean, during a duel on Jaguada.[115]
- 532 BBY
- Many Quarren and Mon Calamari are taken as laborers to Lamaredd.
- 520 BBY
- The Ark of Baron Auletphant is collected by the Baobab Archives on Manda.[1]
- c. 519 BBY
- The species later known as the Polis Massans begin to investigate the remains of the Eellayin civilization on Polis Massa.
- 516 BBY
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure forces the bandit Alkhara out of his own palace.
- c. 500 BBY
- The Jedi training vessel Chu'unthor, is built in orbit around the planet Abhean by Republic Fleet Systems.
- 500 BBY
- The Federation of the Double Worlds is founded.
- Plagen is discovered.
- 490 BBY
- The Corporate Sector Authority, a free-enterprise fiefdom of the galaxy, is founded to free the Galactic Senate and corporate moneymakers from each other.
- 470 BBY
- Corellia unsuccessfully attempts to withdraw from the Galactic Republic, going so far as to utilize the Contemplanys Hermi clause for the first time in history.
- Corellia, Selonia and Drall ally in a failed attempt to takeover the Federation of the Double Worlds.
- Yinchorr is first charted by the Galactic Republic. (Approximate date)
- 439 BBY
- Spore is created by scientists on Ithor.
- 400 BBY
- The elitist Nomad's Retreat in the Nomad Mountains on Corellia expands its membership to become a public resort.
- Susevfi is settled by Corporate Sector expatriates.
- 392 BBY
- Kal'Shebbol is first settled by Twi'lek refugees.
- 380 BBY
- Keiran Halcyon defeats the Afarathu cult.
- 378 BBY
- Ikrit discovers the Golden Globe within the Palace of the Woolamander on Yavin 4.
- 350 BBY
- The Trade Federation is created to regulate commerce in the Outer Rim.[1]
- The Great Cleansing occurs on Fyodos, devastating the planet.
- Attichitcuk is born on Kashyyyk.
- 340 BBY
- The Jedi training vessel Chu'unthor crashes on the surface of Dathomir.
- 322 BBY
- The Annoo-dat conquer Annoo (Gelefil).
- 321 BBY
- Ord Cestus becomes a prison planet.
- 319 BBY
- An embezzlement scandal results in twelve Cybot Galactica executives being imprisoned on Ord Cestus.
- 312 BBY
- Berethron e Solo establishes a democratic constitutional monarchy on Corellia, replacing the previous absolute monarchy.
- c. 300 BBY
- The Techno Union claims Mustafar, recognizing an opportunity to collect rare ores in liquid form.[1]
- The Bothan Spynet is established.
- Myrkr is discovered and settled.
- The Ho'Din begin to industrialize and move down from the trees.
- The Nozho–Weogar War between the Bith city-states of Nozho and Weogar devastates Clak'dor VII.
- 282 BBY
- The Houks colonize Sriluur.
- Beginning of the Houk–Weequay conflicts.
- c. 275 BBY
- The Janguine language goes extinct, along with its users.
- 247 BBY
- Bosbit Matarcher is born.
- 232 BBY
- The Cularin system is rediscovered by Reidi Artom.
- Worxer is destroyed when its sun goes supernova.
- 229 BBY
- The Gardaji Rift is surveyed by the Galactic Republic.
- 222 BBY
- A freighter from Geonosis crashes on Tatooine, leading to the domestication of the Massiffs by the Sand people.
- c. 221 BBY
- Trench is born on Secundus Ando.
- c. 220 BBY
- The Academy of Carida is founded.
- The mining city of Tayana on Duro reaches its height.
- Drongar is discovered by Nikto scouts.
- 219 BBY
- Gowix Computers is founded.
- 212 BBY
- Starting from his homeworld of Delemede, Bosbit Matarcher unintentionally time travels 190 years into the future, due to faulty relativistic shielding on his ship.
- 206 BBY
- Oppo Rancisis is born on Thisspias.
- Quagga is born on Kashyyyk.
- c. 200 BBY
- Chewbacca is born on Kashyyyk.
- The Jedi Order feels that the dark side of the Force is growing strong again.
- The star Carosi destroys the innermost five planets in the Carosus system.
- Yperio Baobab creates Bab-Prime, precursor to Bab-Neo and modern-day droidspeak.
- Memory wipes become common droid maintenance following a personality virus unleashed by a member of the Baobab Merchant Fleet.
- TaggeCo is founded by Tarzen Tagge.
- Competing scouts dispatched by Tor-Ro-Bo Industries and Eeook Mining and Reclamation simultaneously discover 244Core. The rival companies both claim the planet as their own.[118]
- 190 BBY
- The natives of Fere are wiped out by a plague. (Approximate date)
- Vima-Da-Boda is born.
- 189 BBY
- Vortex joins the Galactic Republic.
- 188 BBY
- Kibh Jeen falls to the dark side of the Force, beginning the Dark Jedi Conflict.
- Almas Academy is founded on Almas by the Jedi.
- Qornah dies on Almas.
- 181 BBY
- The Dark Jedi Conflict ends following the death of Kibh Jeen.
- 161 BBY
- The Tarasin Revolt begins on Cularin.
- 160 BBY
- Orn Belden, future Bakuran senator, is born.
- 154 BBY
- The Tarasin Revolt on Cularin ends with the Cularin Compact.
- c. 150 BBY
- The Bakur Mining Corporation under Arden colonizes Bakura.
- A coalition of corporations on Corellia overthrows its ruling constitutional monarchy, installing the office of Diktat to better steward business interests in the sector.
- 147 BBY
- Incom Corporation and Subpro Corporation enter into a partnership.
- 145 BBY
- Brath Qella is discovered by the Galactic Republic's Third General Survey.
- 140 BBY
- Brath Qella enters a deep ice age.
- 132 BBY
- The Republic first makes contact with the Elomin.
- An unnamed Mandalore is assassinated by the bounty hunter Durge and a group of rogue Jedi Knights.
- c. 130 BBY
- The Potentium first appears amongst younger members of the Jedi Order.
- 128 BBY
- Eppie Belden is born on Bakura.
- 124 BBY
- The Senate approves two significant and related pieces of legislation. One declares the Outer Rim Territories a free-trade zone exempt from taxation, and the other extends the definition of functional constituencies entitled to representation in the Senate to guilds and corporations.[1]
- The Treaty of Trammis is orchestrated by Jedi Master Omo Bouri.
- 120 BBY
- Ugloste is born on Gentes.
- Damask Holdings is founded. (Approximate date)
- 119 BBY
- The Galactic Republic discovers the planet Orax.
- 112 BBY
- The 3PO-series protocol droid line begins production by Cybot Galactica.
- 110 BBY
- Batorine joins the Galactic Republic.
- 105 BBY
- Durga Besadii Tai is born on Nal Hutta.
- 102 BBY
- Count Dooku is born to an aristocratic family on Serenno. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
- Lorian Nod is born.
- The Aqualish colonize Andosha II and the other Andoan Free Colonies.
- c. 100 BBY
- The Dowager Queen crashes on Tatooine, which is subsequently colonized by miners and farmers.
- Fort Tusken is founded on Tatooine.
- The corporate wing of the Bakur Memorial Building is built on Bakura.
- Eixes Valorum is Supreme Chancellor.
- Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers vessels are first deployed.
- The Prophets of the Dark Side colonize Kalakar Six from Dromund Kaas.
- 99 BBY
- Survivors of the crash of the Dowager Queen found Bestine Settlement.
- 98 BBY
- The first attacks by Tatooine's Sand people occur at Fort Tusken, lasting three years.
- 97 BBY
- Ranulph Tarkin is born on Eriadu.
- Droid Uprising occurs on Bakura.
- Droid Uprising occurs on Tatooine.
- Orn Belden and Eppie Antruse are married.
- 96 BBY
- On Lwhekk, the Shreeftut seizes power over the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium after years of internal fighting between his political allies and the factions that supported the previous ruler.[119]
- Danoor is colonized by scientists studying in the Kathol Rift.
- 95 BBY
- Fort Tusken on Tatooine is abandoned after three years of Sand people attacks.
- 94 BBY
- Famine on Telos IV.
- The Twenty-First Battle of Zehava on Melida/Daan.
- 93 BBY
- A second group of colonists found Motesta and re-establish Anchorhead on Tatooine.
- 92 BBY
- Qui-Gon Jinn is born on an unknown planet. He is discovered by the Jedi, and begins his training in infancy.
- 91 BBY
- Finis Valorum was born on a planet in the Lytton sector.
- 89 BBY
- Dooku is apprenticed to Jedi Master Thame Cerulian.
- Followers of the discredited Jedi Potentium sect settle on Zonama Sekot.[1]
- Entrepeneurs intending to use ramjet mining ships to gather valuable gases from the Cauldron Nebula establish a settlement on Eol Sha, the only inhabitable world close enough to support the venture.[120]
- Lorian Nod is expelled from the Jedi Order.
- 88 BBY
- The Dark Woman takes Ki-Adi-Mundi to Coruscant for Jedi training.
- Plett builds Plett's Well on Belsavis.
- 87 BBY
- Civil war breaks out between Garos IV and Sundari over the destruction of a Garosian grain-processing factory.
- Tem Chesko is born.
- 86 BBY
- Locus Geen, future General in the Army of the Republic, is born.
- 85 BBY
- Mos Eisley is founded around the wreck of the Dowager Queen.
- 83 BBY
- Mos Espa is founded on Tatooine.
- The Galactic Games are instituted.
- 82 BBY
- Dooku passes the trials and is made a Jedi Knight.
- Darth Sidious (Palpatine) is born on Naboo.
- Yoda takes Ki-Adi-Mundi as his Padawan learner.
- Cliegg Lars is born on Tatooine.
- 81 BBY
- Kal Skirata is born on Kuat. (Approximate date)
- 78 BBY
- Rostek Horn is born on Corellia.
- Scerra is born on Corellia.
- 77 BBY
- The Second Galactic Games are held.
- Dooku, along with his apprentice Qui-Gon Jinn, is reunited with Lorian Nod, who is now the leader of a band of space pirates.
- Ruwee Naberrie is born on Naboo.
- Senator Blix Annon dies of a heart attack.
- 76 BBY
- Ronhar Kim is born.
- Alexi Garyn takes control of the Black Sun.
- 75 BBY
- Longwind is colonized by criminals released from Galactic Republic prisons.
- Drewwa, the third moon of Almania, is colonized.
- 74 BBY
- Last civil war in Masterhome ends, being replaced by a harmless tradition.[121] (Approximate date)
- The planet Kegan begins a period of isolation.[122]
- 73 BBY
- Kassar Kosciusko. (Approximate date)[123]
- 72 BBY
- Mace Windu is born on Haruun Kal.[124]
- Shmi Skywalker is born on Tatooine.[125]
- 71 BBY
- The Grand ChikatLik—the first prison built on the planet Ord Cestus—is converted into a hotel.[10]
- 70 BBY
- The Kira Run is founded, connecting the Lazerian system to the Ropagi system.[126]
- The space station Tatoo III is destroyed over Tatooine shortly after completition.[127]
- Jorus C'baoth is born on Bortras.[128]
- Seti Ashgad is born.
- 69 BBY
- The ruins of Wiyentaah are discovered on Polis Massa.
- The Third Galactic Games are held.
- Clat'Ha is born. (Approximate date)
- 68 BBY
- Nejaa Halcyon is taken as a Padawan learner.
- 67 BBY
- Bail Organa of Alderaan is born.[129]
- Cerea establishes contact with the Galactic Republic.
- Ki-Adi-Mundi completes his Jedi training.
- Essara Till is born.[130]
- Darth Plagueis kills his master Darth Tenebrous and becomes the sole Dark Lord of the Sith.[131]
- 66 BBY
- Jango Fett is born on Concord Dawn.
- Radiant VII is built and launched over Corellia.
- Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn embark on their last mission as Master and Padawan.
- Shmi Skywalker is sold into slavery.
- Dorja is born on Coruscant. (Approximate date)[132]
- 65 BBY
- Jan Dodonna is born on Commenor.[31]
- Bon Tapalo is elected Monarch of Naboo, thanks in large part to backing from the InterGalactic Banking Clan and Damask Holdings.[131]
- The Hutts take control of Tatooine, seeing it as a useful point for transferring smuggled goods between the Corellian Run and the Triellus Trade Route.[1]
- The Dark Jedi Maw is born.[133]
- Palpatine becomes Plagueis's apprentice, becoming Darth Sidious.[131]
- 64 BBY
- Qui-Gon Jinn passes the Trials and becomes a Jedi Knight.
- Tahl passes the Trials and becomes a Jedi Knight.
- The H'kig arrive on Rishi.
- 62 BBY
- Quarsh Panaka is born on Naboo.[134] (Approximate date)[135]
- Komari Vosa is born. (Approximate date)[136]
- The Flash speeder is developed on Naboo.
- The Fourth Galactic Games are held.
- The R3 series astromech droid is developed around this time.
- Jocasta Nu joins the Jedi Council.[137]
- 60 BBY
- Thoris Darus is elected Supreme Chancellor.
- A massive wave of religious refugees from Galand arrived on Rishi. These settlers, who were members of the strict H'kig sect, took up residence in the planet's lowlands and ignored the native Rishii.[1]
- The ship that would later be known as the Millennium Falcon is constructed over Corellia.
- The Corellian Security Force, or CorSec, is formed on Corellia.
- Nejaa Halcyon becomes a Jedi Knight.
- The Mandalorian Civil War begins.
- Jaster Mereel becomes Mandalore.
- Tosche Station is constructed on Tatooine.
- Raith Sienar is born. (Approximate date)
- 59 BBY
- Nejaa Halcyon and Scerra have a secret wedding on Corellia.
- Qui-Gon Jinn's first apprentice passes the Trials and becomes a Jedi Knight. Qui-Gon becomes a Jedi Master and takes Xanatos as his second Padawan learner.
- 58 BBY
- Jango Fett is orphaned when his family of simple farmers is murdered by the Mandalorian Death Watch. He is picked up by former Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel.[138]
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure is sent to Tatooine to represent the Desilijic Clan.
- Mace Windu is sent to Hurikane to negotiate with the insectoid-rock humanoids. He makes peace with them and receives purple Hurrikaine crystals that he uses to build his lightsaber.
- The Yinchorri gain representation in the Galactic Senate.
- Garen Muln is born on an unknown planet.
- 57 BBY
- The Andoan Wars begin.
- The Yinchorri join the Galactic Republic.
- Bruck Chun is born on Telos IV.
- Garen Muln begins training in the Jedi Temple under Master Yoda.
- Cerasi is born on Melida/Daan. (Approximate date)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi is born on Stewjon.
- Quinlan Vos is born on Kiffu.
- 56 BBY
- Obi-Wan Kenobi begins training in the Jedi Temple under Master Yoda.
- Nerra Ziveri turns control of the Jedi academy on Cularin to Lanius Qel-Bertuk and disappears.
- 55 BBY
- The Fifth Galactic Games are held.
- The Neimoidians become the leaders of the Trade Federation.
- Siri Tachi is born on an unknown planet.
- Bant Eerin is born on Dac.
- 54 BBY
- Darth Maul is born on Dathomir, and given to Darth Sidious by his mother to escape the fate of becoming a Nightbrother.
- Ranulph Tarkin is elected Senator of the Seswenna sector.
- 53 BBY
- Xanatos leaves the Jedi Order after Qui-Gon Jinn is forced to kill the boy's father, Crion, on Telos IV.
- The opera, The Brief Reign of Future Wraiths, leaves Coruscant to tour the galaxy.
- Padawan Jorus C'baoth attends Mirnic University.
- Bossk is born on Trandosha.
- Aurra Sing is born on Nar Shaddaa.
- 52 BBY
- The Summertime War begins. (Approximate date)
- Palpatine's predecessor as senator of Naboo, Vidar Kim, is assassinated on Coruscant.[139]
- Palpatine is elected to the Galactic Senate as Senator of Naboo and the Chommell sector.[139]
- Oppo Rancisis begins teaching at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
- The Galactic Correctional Authority is formed, and establishes prisons on several worlds including Oovo IV.
- Damask Holdings ceases operations.
- Jaster Mereel is killed at the Battle of Korda Six.[138]
- Jango Fett becomes leader of the Mandalorians.[138]
- Jedi Master Dooku mediates an end to the Sevarcos Dispute.
- Jocasta Nu steps down from the Jedi Council.
- Jar Jar Binks is born on Naboo.
- Bolabo Hujaan is born on Sullust.
- Owen Lars is born on Ator.
- 51 BBY
- Jorus C'baoth begins his service as the personal advisor to Senator Palpatine of Naboo.
- The Dark Woman brings Aurra Sing to Coruscant for Jedi training.
- Silya Shessaun is born on Thesme.
- Gilad Pellaeon is born on Corellia.
- 50 BBY
- The Moddell sector is admitted to the Republic as a freestanding subsector.[1]
- Galladinium founds Galladinium's Galactic Imports on Lenthalis.
- Salt is introduced to the Arcona.
- Annaj joins the Galactic Republic and becomes the Moddell sector capital.
- Young Anomids develop a nonconformist subculture.
- Galactic Republic scouts discover Bosph and the Bosph species.
- The Galactic Republic makes first contact with the Eloms.
- Quarg and his pirates are exiled from the Korteen Belt to Drexel.
- The Arkanian Revolution is fought over the re-engineering of the Yaka.
- Dooku takes Komari Vosa as his second Padawan.
- Jorj Car'das is born on Corellia.
- Gorm the Dissolver is born.
- Schennt is born on Corulag. (Approximate date)
- Sayer Mon Neela is born.
- 49 BBY
- Lorana Jinzler is born on Coruscant.
- Rorworr is born on Kashyyyk.
- Deel Surool is born on Ryloth.
- Sylvn is born on Cerea.
- Pter Thanas is born.
- 48 BBY
- Aayla Secura is born on Ryloth.
- Arani Korden is born on Naboo.
- Mon Mothma is born on Chandrila.[134]
- Toba is born on Naboo.
- Gaen Drommel is born on Oplovis.[140]
- Sola Naberrie is born on Naboo.[129]
- 47 BBY
- Sharad Hett leaves the Jedi Temple.
- A'Sharad Hett is born on Tatooine.
- Sia-Lan Wezz is born.
- Beru Whitesun is born on Tatooine.
- Carlist Rieekan is born on Alderaan.
- 46 BBY
- Ars Veruna succeeds Bon Tapalo as King of Naboo.
- Padmé Amidala (Padmé Naberrie) is born to Ruwee and Jobal Naberrie on Naboo.
- Airen Cracken is born on Contruum.
- Quinlan Vos rescues a two-year old Aayla Secura from a Hutt crime lord on Ryloth and convinces the Jedi Order to begin training Secura as a Jedi.
- 45 BBY
- The Katana fleet is lost.
- A pair of comets struck and poisoned Toong'L.[1]
- Qui-Gon Jinn chooses a young Obi-Wan Kenobi as his Padawan.
- Byss is first charted by the Galactic Republic.
- Raymus Antilles is born on Alderaan.
- Brandei is born on Mantooine.
- 44 BBY
- Greedo is born on Rodia.
- Xanatos commits suicide on Telos IV by jumping into a pool of acid, rather than be captured by his former master, Qui-Gon Jinn.
- Adi Gallia takes Siri Tachi as her Padawan.
- The Stark Hyperspace War is fought.
- Tyvokka is killed by Trade Federation droids.
- Plo Koon joins the Jedi Council.
- Kol Huro Unrest.
- Tap-Nar-Pal is born on Cerea.
- The Great Clan Wars erupt on Mandalore.
- The Mandalorians are destroyed by a Jedi task force led by Count Dooku in the Battle of Galidraan. Jango Fett is the only survivor.[138]
- 43 BBY
- Jenna Zan Arbor begins kidnapping Jedi and other Force-sensitives to experiment on as a means of studying the Force. She operates primarily in a hidden laboratory on Simpla-12.
- The planet of Kegan ends its thirty year isolation.
- Dean Jinzler is born on Coruscant.
- Ferus Olin is born.
- 41 BBY
- Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One who will bring balance to the Force, is born to a slave named Shmi Skywalker on an unknown world.[114]
- Jedi Master Tahl dies on New Apsolon.
- Kit Fisto takes on Tahl's apprentice, Bant Eerin, as his own apprentice.
- Shea Sadashassa is born on Herdessa.
- Darra Thel-Tanis is born.
- Kitster Chanchani Banai is born on Tatooine.
- 40 BBY
- Finis Valorum is elected Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.
- Aurra Sing is kidnapped by Sennex pirates on Ord Namurt.
- Barriss Offee is born aboard a starliner.[141]
- Sien Sovv is born on Sullust.
- 39 BBY
- Jax Pavan is born on Coruscant.
- Shmi and Anakin Skywalker come to live on Tatooine when they are purchased by Gardulla the Hutt. However, the Hutt ultimately loses her prize to a Toydarian junk dealer named Watto.
- The Galactic Republic makes its first known survey of the swamp world, Dagobah.
- The Andoan Wars come to an end following the Battle of Raquish.
- 38 BBY
- Quinlan Vos takes Aayla Secura as his Padawan.
- A Galactic Republic survey team crash-lands on Dagobah and begins a one-way battle to survive.
- Professor Murk Lundi takes a sabbatical to scour Kodai for a lost Sith Holocron.
- W. Wald is born on Tatooine.
- Diric Wessiri is born.
- Narro Sienar dies when his starship is destroyed near Dantooine.
- 37 BBY
- The Yam'rii are enslaved.
- Liberal revolution on Pergitor.
- Bene is born.
- Orman Tagge is born on Tepasi.
- Hiram Drayson is born on Chandrila.
- 36 BBY
- Finis Valorum is re-elected Supreme Chancellor.[134]
- Gilad Pellaeon is accepted into the Raithal Academy at age fifteen.[31]
- The Yam'rii uprising.
- Nenevanth Tion is born on Lianna.[142]
- Ahsoka Tano is born on Shili.[143]
- Horton Salm is born.
- 35 BBY
- The Great Resynchronization occurs, in an attempt to harmonize different Galactic calendars.
- Garm Bel Iblis is elected to represent Corellia in the Galactic Senate.
- The Techno Union takes control of Saleucami.
- Padmé Naberrie is made an Apprentice Legislator.
- Thrackan Sal-Solo is born on Corellia.
- Jedgar is born.
- 34 BBY
- Tyber Zann is born on Anaxes.
- Sintas Vel is born on Kiffu.
- Mandalorian Myles dies on Galidraan.[138]
- Anakin Skywalker begins to build C-3PO out of the pieces of several broken protocol droids.
- 33 BBY
- The Yinchorri Uprising begins.[144]
- Wilhuff Tarkin becomes Lieutenant Governor of Eriadu.
- Ki-Adi-Mundi joins the Jedi Council.
- In response to a wave of Nebula Front attacks, the Galactic Senate grants the Trade Federation the right to arm its ships, in return for trade route taxation.
- Nute Gunray assumes full control over the Trade Federation in the aftermath of the disastrous Eriadu Trade Summit.
- Padmé Amidala becomes Princess of Theed.
- Republic exploration ship Pathfinder III rediscovers Yashuvhu.
- R2-D2 is created.
- 32 BBY
- Padmé Amidala, former Princess of Theed, is elected Queen of Naboo.[145]
- The creation of a secret clone army begins on Kamino, under the order placed by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. Jango Fett a bounty hunter whose DNA is the specimen for replication, requests an unaltered clone be made for him; he names him Boba Fett.[146]
- Count Dooku murders Sifo-Dyas and becomes Darth Tyranus, the second Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious.[147]
- The Red Guard is formed.
- Bail Antilles retires as Senator of Alderaan, and is succeeded by Bail Organa.[148]
- Rotta is born to Jabba Desilijic Tiure on Tatooine.[143]
- The Yuuzhan Vong reach the galaxy.[149]
- 31 BBY
- Lando Calrissian is born on Socorro.[150]
- Crix Madine is born on Corellia.[128]
- Borsk Fey'lya is born on Kothlis. (Approximate date)
- Silya Shessaun is elected Senator of Thesme.
- Quinlan Vos is captured by the Witches of Dathomir and taken as a slave.
- The Nightsisters succeed in capturing a Star Temple and slaughter many Kwi.
- Poggle the Lesser leads a revolt against Archduke Hadiss on Geonosis. The revolt is successful and Poggle succeeds Hadiss as Archduke.
- 30 BBY
- Adi Gallia, Ki-Adi-Mundi and A'Sharad Hett begin the hunt for Aurra Sing.
- The Jedi Knight Vergere traveled to Zonama Sekot and encountered an advance scouting force of Yuuzhan Vong, which she then left with to prevent any conflict from harming the world.[1]
- Ysanne Isard is born on Coruscant. (Approximate date)[151]
- Kh'aris Fenn attempts a coup on the Twi'lek Clan Council.
- Professor Rynalla attempts to excavate the Bracers of Najus on Leritor.
- Anzati released from stasis by Aayla Secura overrun Kiffex.
- 29 BBY
- Raith Sienar presents the original concept for the Death Star to Wilhuff Tarkin.
- Han Solo is born on Corellia.
- Thracia Cho Leem leaves the Jedi Order.
- Preparations begin for the Outbound Flight Project.
- Dash Rendar is born on Corellia. (Approximate date)
- The Jamaane Coup occurs within the Yuuzhan Vong; Quoreal is deposed as Supreme Overlord, and Shimrra Jamaane takes his place.
- 28 BBY
- Bria Tharen is born on Corellia. (Approximate date)
- Soontir Fel is born on Corellia.
- The Vagaari are defeated by the Chiss Ascendancy.
- Chancery election; Palpatine is re-elected Supreme Chancellor.
- Luminara Unduli takes Barriss Offee as her Padawan. (Approximate date)
- The Colicoids take over spice processing on Nar Shaddaa.
- Aayla Secura is knighted on Coruscant.
- Quinlan Vos is promoted to Jedi Master on Coruscant.
- 27 BBY
- Cliegg Lars marries Shmi Skywalker.
- Radnor is struck by a bioplague; the nearby Avoni attempt to conquer it.
- Mon Mothma is elected Senator of Chandrila.
- The Outbound Flight Project departs from Yaga Minor, but is destroyed shortly after by Mitth'raw'nuruodo.[152]
- The Sepan Civil War begins.
- Reija Momen becomes administrator of the Intergalactic Communications Center.
- Master Yarael Poof is slain by Ashaar Khorda while protecting Coruscant from the Infant of Shaa.
- Firmus Piett is born on Axxila.
- 26 BBY
- Yeorg Captison is elected to the Bakuran Senate.
- Maxo Vista wins the Galactic Games.
- 25 BBY
- Omwat is rediscovered by Wilhuff Tarkin.
- Stevan Makintay is born on Hargeeva.
- The Yuuzhan Vong establish an advance base on the planet Bimmiel.
- The Jedi begin a campaign against the Pirates of Iridium.
- Alderaanian scouts find the planet Isis, but keep it a secret.
- Yaddle sacrifices herself to save the people of Mawan by using the Force to absorb a deadly chemical weapon.
- Shaak Ti joins the Jedi Council, replacing Yaddle.
- 24 BBY
- The Confederacy of Independent Systems is officially formed by Count Dooku on Raxus Prime. Shortly afterwards, thousands of planets leave the Republic and align themselves with the CIS, thus beginning the Separatist Crisis.
- Granta Omega plots two assassination attempts on Palpatine and though they are averted by the Jedi, 21 Senators are killed.
- Ferus Olin resigns from the Jedi Order. He eventually ends up living on the world of Bellassa where he starts a good friendship with Roan Lands.
- Palpatine reaches the end of his second term as Supreme Chancellor; the passage of the Emergency Powers Act allows him to stay in office until the Separatist Crisis is dealt with.
- Amidala, after serving two terms as Queen, is appointed by her successor Jamillia to be Naboo's Senator.
- In response to the growing threat of the CIS, the Military Creation Act, a bill proposing the reformation of the Republc's armed forces, is brought to the Galactic Senate floor for the first time.
- Biggs Darklighter is born on Tatooine. (Approximate date)
- Jan Ors is born on Alderaan.(Approximate date)
- Start of the Virgillian Civil War.
- The Commerce Guild takes control of Korriban.
- Ister Paddie assumes Lanus Wrede's former seat in the Galactic Senate.
- 23 BBY
- Ludi Billane is born on Ord Thoden.
- Kyle Katarn is born on Sulon.
- Judder Page is born on Corulag.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Bultar Swan foil a plot by Groodo the Hutt to destroy the Fondor Shipyards.
- 22.5 BBY
- Senator Aks Moe is assassinated on Aargau.
- Corellia closes its borders in protest of the Military Creation Act.
- Zorba Desilijic Tiure is tried and convicted for illegal gemstone mining and is sentenced to prison on Kip. His brother, Jiliac Desilijic Tiron, takes control of the Desilijic kajidic.
- The Battle of Antar 4 takes place.
- Ando, Sy Myrth, and Yag'Dhul secede from the Republic.
- The Summertime War ends.
- 22 BBY
- Roganda Ismaren is born. (Approximate date)
- The Ansion Border Dispute takes place. The Commerce Guild attempts to convince Ansion to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems. However, the dispute is settled by a Jedi delegation consisting of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Luminara Unduli, and Barriss Offee.
- Two years after it was first introduced, the Senate convenes to vote on the Military Creation Act. However, the vote on the bill is delayed after two failed assassination attempts on Senator Padmé Amidala.
- For her own protection, Senator Amidala is sent back to Naboo along with Anakin Skywalker. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi begins investigating the assassination attempts, with his search eventually leading him to Kamino, where he discovers Sifo-Dyas' clone army for the first time; he subsequently comes to the conclusion that the army's prime clone, Jango Fett, carried out the assassination attempts on Senator Amidala.
- Anakin returns to his homeworld of Tatooine and meets his stepfather Cliegg Lars, Cliegg's son Owen and Owen's girlfriend Beru for the first time. He also encounters his protocol droid C-3PO for the first time since he departed from Tatooine.
- Anakin learns from Cliegg that his mother, Shmi, had been kidnapped by a band of Tusken Raiders a month previously. Anakin desperately goes looking for her and eventually finds her in a small Tusken encampment. Unfortunately, Shmi's wounds are too severe, and only moments after Anakin rescues her, she dies in her son's arms. Anakin is overcome with grief and anger and, in a blind fury, massacres the entire encampment.
- Kenobi follows Fett from Kamino to Geonosis, where he learns that the leaders of the Trade Federation, the Commerce Guild, the Techno Union, and the InterGalactic Banking Clan, as well as Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser, have pledged their droid armies to Count Dooku, and that Nute Gunray had ordered the assassination attempts on Senator Amidala as revenge for the Battle of Naboo. Shortly afterwards, he is captured by Dooku.
- After receiving a message from Kenobi revealing that the CIS was marshaling a droid army, the Senate convenes in a special session where Chancellor Palpatine is granted emergency powers, allowing him to pass the Military Creation Act without approval from the Senate. Palpatine uses his newfound powers to formally create the Grand Army of the Republic.
- Anakin and Padmé, being accompanied by C-3PO and R2-D2, travel to Geonosis in a bid to rescue Obi-Wan, but ultimately end up being captured themselves. The three are slated to be executed in Geonosis' Pentranaki Arena.
- The First Battle of Geonosis begins when Mace Windu leads a task force of Jedi to rescue Obi-Wan, Anakin and Padmé. In the ensuing clash between the Jedi and the Separatists' battle droids, many Jedi, including High Council member Coleman Trebor, are killed, and Jango Fett is killed as well. When it appears that the Jedi are going to lose the battle, Master Yoda arrives with reinforcements: the clone troopers from Kamino. With the timely arrival of the clones, the battle is won by the Republic, but Dooku escapes.
- The battle on Geonosis marks the official beginning of the Clone Wars.
- Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala marry in secret on Naboo.[146]
- Neeyutnee is elected Queen of Naboo.
- Kit Fisto is elevated to the Jedi High Council, replacing Coleman Trebor.
The Clone Wars (21.5 BBY-19.5 BBY)
- 21.5 BBY
- The 501st Legion is formed.
- Onderon secedes from the Republic.
- The Republic begins work on the Decimator, employing Wookiees to construct the machines. However, the finished vehicles are stolen by Sev'rance Tann, a Separatist general who uses them to take over Sarapin.
- Echuu Shen-Jon, the Padawan learner of Mace Windu, is dispatched to Sarapin to end the threat of the Decimators. Eventually pursing Tann to Krant, Shen-Jon is successful in destroying the Decimator factories and killing Tann.
- The Dark Reaper Crisis occurs.
- Count Dooku takes on former Nightsister Asajj Ventress as his personal assassin and informal apprentice.
- Republic forces under command of Obi-Wan Kenobi are dispatched to Muunilist to disable the InterGalactic Banking Clan's droid factories. They also encounter the Gen'Dai bounty hunter Durge, who commands the droid forces. Kenobi eventually defeats Durge in single combat.
- Asajj Ventress lures Anakin Skywalker to Yavin 4, where the two engage in a grueling lightsaber duel. Skywalker seemingly emerges victorious after casting Ventress into a ravine, but she would survive.
- The Battle of Muunilist ends with a Republic victory, as well as the capture of Banking Clan Chairman and Separatist Council member San Hill.
- The Republic suffers a crushing defeat at the Battle of Hypori, with the Jedi Ki-Adi-Mundi, Shaak Ti, Aayla Secura, and K'Kruhk being the only survivors. It is during this battle that the Kaleesh cyborg General Grievous is revealed as the Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies.
- Anakin Skywalker undergoes his knighting ceremony and becomes a full Jedi Knight.
- 21 BBY
- Lumiya is born on Coruscant. (Approximate date)
- The Reflex Amendment is passed.
- Wedge Antilles is born on Corellia.
- Tycho Celchu is born on Alderaan.
- The Commission for the Protection of the Republic, or COMPOR, is formed.
- Seti Ashgad disappears.
- Owen Lars marries Beru Whitesun.
- The Battle of Christophsis is fought.
- Ahsoka Tano is apprenticed to Anakin Skywalker.
- Count Dooku conspires to turn Jabba Desilijic Tiure against the Galactic Republic by implicating the Jedi in the kidnapping of his son Rotta.
- Anakin and Ahsoka rescue Rotta and bring him back to his father. It is also revealed by Senator Padmé Amidala that Jabba's uncle, Ziro Desilijic Tiure, orchestrated the plot and conspired with Dooku as a means of taking over the Hutt clans. As thanks for returning his son to him, Jabba allows the Republic safe travel through Hutt Space.
- Ryloth is invaded and subjugated by the Techno Union.
- Even Piell is killed.
- 20.5 BBY
- Ryloth is liberated.
- Sullust defects to the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
- The Council of Neutral Systems is formed by Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore.
- The Death Watch, under their leader Pre Vizsla, revolt against Kryze in order to destabilize her New Mandalorian government.
- Senator Viento is assassinated.
- 20 BBY
- Exile of Mith'raw'nuruodo.
- Orman Tagge becomes Baron of the House of Tagge.
- Darth Maul returns.
- The Shadow Collective is formed by Maul.
- Mandalore is taken over by the Shadow Collective.
- Adi Gallia is killed by Savage Opress. Her seat on the Jedi High Council is filled by her cousin, Stass Allie.
- Cliegg Lars dies.
- Boz Pity is captured by the Republic.
- 19.5 BBY
- Baris Offee falls to the dark side of the Force and bombs the Jedi Temple. Ahsoka Tano is framed for this crime and is expelled from the Jedi Order. Offee later confesses and Tano is pardoned, but she does not return to the Order, parting on her own way.[153]
- Beginning of the Outer Rim Sieges.
- The Sector Governance Decree is passed.[154]
- Making use of a secret hyperlane through the Deep Core, the CIS fleet launches an attack on Coruscant and captures Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi lead the Republic's defense of Coruscant from space and navigate to the CIS flagship to rescue the Chancellor.[155]
- Kenobi and Skywalker board the Invisible Hand and rescue the Chancellor. They also encounter Count Dooku, who is killed by Skywalker. General Grievous escapes, and becomes the de facto leader of the CIS.
- Padmé Amidala learns that she is pregnant with her and Anakin's child.[156]
- The Security Act is passed by the Galactic Senate, giving the Supreme Chancellor ultimate authority over the Jedi Order and the Republic Armed Forces.[156]
- Palpatine appoints Anakin Skywalker as his personal representative on the Jedi High Council, making him the youngest ever member of the High Council at that point. The Council does not grant him the rank of Jedi Master, however.[156]
- Clone Intelligence learns that General Grievous and the Separatist Council are hiding out on Utapau.[156]
- Grievous sends the members of the Separatist Council to Mustafar while he remains on Utapau.[156]
- The Battle of Utapau is fought, and Grievous is killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi.[156]
- The Jedi Council learns that Chancellor Palpatine is, in fact, Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith. Mace Windu, along with fellow Council members Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin, attempt to relieve Palpatine of his duties, but Palpatine resists and engages the four Jedi in a lightsaber duel, successfully slaying all of them but Windu.[156]
- Anakin intervenes as Windu attempts to strike Palpatine down, preventing him from doing so by slicing off Windu's hand. This allows Palpatine to finish Windu off by throwing him out of his window.[156]
- Anakin falls to the dark side of the Force and swears himself as Palpatine's Sith apprentice. Palpatine rechristens him "Darth Vader" and instructs him to lead an assault on the Jedi Temple.[156]
- Palpatine issues Order 66: the clone troopers across the galaxy turn on their Jedi commanders and kill them, effectively wiping out most of the Jedi Order. This marks the start of the Great Jedi Purge.[156]
- The Declaration of a New Order: Palpatine formally reorganizes the Republic into the Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor.[156]
- Darth Vader travels to Mustafar, where he wipes out the entire Separatist Council, officially ending the Clone Wars.[156]
- Obi-Wan tracks down Vader and duels him. The duel ends when Obi-Wan severs both of Vader's legs and left arm and leaves him for dead. Despite suffering horrendous burns that leaves him physically and emotionally scarred and disfigured, Vader survives, and is retrieved by Palpatine and brought back to Coruscant. Despite his survival, Vader's injuries are so severe that he is forced to wear a respirator and a full body suit to stay alive.[156]
- Padmé is taken to a medical facility on Polis Massa, where she gives birth to twins, whom she names Luke and Leia. She dies shortly afterwards, having lost the will to live after Anakin's fall to the dark side.[156]
- In order to protect them from the Empire, Luke and Leia are split up; Luke is placed in the care of Anakin's stepbrother and stepsister-in law, Owen and Beru Lars, while Senator Bail Organa and his wife, Breha, agree to raise Leia as their daughter.[156]
- Both Obi-Wan and Yoda enter into exile, with Obi-Wan going to Tatooine and Yoda to Dagobah.[156]
- R2-D2 and C-3PO are entrusted to Captain Raymus Antilles. C-3PO's memory is subsequently wiped.[156]
Imperial Period (19 BBY-0 BBY)
- 19 BBY
- The newly-formed Galactic Empire begins the process of imperializing the galaxy.[156]
- Construction begins on the first Death Star.[156]
- The Book of Sith is published.[157]
- Mon Mothma and Bail Organa along with other senators loyal to the Galactic Republic, discuss in secret plans for a Rebellion. This eventually leads to the Galactic Civil War.[154]
- The Cleansing of New Plympto takes place.
- Caamas is devastated by the Empire.
- Juno Eclipse is born on Corulag.
- Mitth'raw'nuruodo, better known by his core name Thrawn, is recruited into the newly-formed Imperial Navy by Emperor Palpatine.
- Mirax Terrik is born on Corellia.
- Korto Vos, the son of Quinlan Vos and his wife, Khaleen Hentz, is born in secret on Kashyyyk.
- Rivoche Tarkin is born on Eriadu. (Approximate date)
- 18 BBY
- Emperor Palpatine begins work on the Dark Side Compendium.
- The Ghorman Massacre occurs.
- Corran Horn is born on Corellia.
- Stavin Thaal is born on Carida.
- Cassio Tagge enlists in the Imperial Military.
- Jedi Master Plett turns his fortress in Plawal on Belsavis into a sanctuary for fugitives from the Emperor's Jedi purge.
- Emperor Palpatine constructs the Eye of Palpatine.
- Callista Ming transfers her spirit to the Eye of Palpatine's computer system.
- Han Solo meets his cousin Thrackan Sal-Solo, who sells him back to Garris Shrike.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi finds Ferus Olin, (a former Jedi apprentice of Siri Tachi), on Bellassa and foils an Imperial plot to mass murder the residents of Bellassa's capital city, Ussa.
- Ferus Olin finds Jedi Master Garen Muln in the Crystal Caves of Ilum.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi stops Inquisitor Sancor from finding information about Padmé Amidala's death on the asteroid Polis Massa.
- Ferus Olin and Trever Flume find Jedi Master Fy-Tor-Ana, now going by the name of "Solace", in the underlevels of Coruscant, with the help of Dexter Jettster.
- Ferus Olin is captured by Imperial stormtroopers in the Jedi Temple, and then interrogated by Inquisitor Malorum.
- Ferus Olin, with the help of Queen Apailana and Boss Rugor Nass, defeats Malorum and temporarily rids Naboo of its Imperial presence.
- In the aftermath of the Battle of Naboo, in which Apailana is assassinated, the Empire installs Kylantha as the new Queen of her people.
- Darth Vader tracks down Jedi survivor Kento Marek on Kashyyyk and subsequently kills him. Vader discovers Kento's very young son, Galen, and decides to take the boy as his secret apprentice.
- Darth Vader begins searching for the holocron of Darth Ramage.
- 17 BBY
- The Reconquest of the Rim comes to an end, with the Outer Rim Territories fully brought under the rule of the Galactic Empire.
- Dak Ralter is born on Kalist VI.
- Mara Jade is born.
- Darth Vader defeats all of the Sa Cuis clones and defeats the rebellious Dark Jedi Sheyvan in a lightsaber duel.
- Rodia experienced an internal coup when Navik the Red of the Chattza Clan conquered his rivals. Under its new leadership, the planet would become a free trading port and an emerging economic power.[1]
- A'Sharad Hett, a Jedi survivor of Order 66, becomes a warlord of the Tusken Raiders and encounters Obi-Wan Kenobi during a raid. After losing a lightsaber duel to Kenobi, Hett is regarded as a disgrace among the Tusken Raiders and is eventually forced to leave Tatooine and become a bounty hunter.
- Hett encounters the spirit of the ancient Sith Lord XoXaan on Korriban and agrees to learn the ways of the Sith, spending decades training in the ancient Sith tombs on Korriban.
- 16 BBY
- Boba Fett marries Sintas Vel.
- Skee and his family flee to an unknown jungle planet during the Rodian Clan Wars.
- Havet Storm is born.
- 15 BBY
- Ailyn Vel, daughter of Boba Fett and Sintas Vel, is born.
- The Talz are enslaved by the Galactic Empire.
- The Justice Action Network is founded.
- The Rego Mineral Company contacts Altor 14.
- The Fromm Tower Droid is created.
- Peace City is founded on Ylesia by Aruk Besadii Aora and Zavval.
- 14 BBY
- Cray Mingla is born.
- Barab I joins the Galactic Empire.
- Syal Antilles runs away from home and changes her name to Wynssa Starflare.
- The Sartran Corporation is disbanded by the Galactic Empire.
- 13 BBY
- The Renatasia system is re-discovered.
- Han Solo wins the junior swoop racing championship of Corellia.
- 12 BBY
- Teneniel Djo is born on Dathomir. (Approximate date)
- A joint Imperial/Centrality invasion force conquers the Renatasia system after a brutal conflict.
- The 501st Legion is dispatched to Kamino to eliminate an army of clone troopers created in opposition of the Galactic Empire.
- Han Solo wins the junior swoop racing championship for a second time.
- 11 BBY
- Maridun is discovered by the Galactic Empire; slaving and mining operations are quickly established.
- Soontir Fel is blackmailed from Corellia and enlists in the Academy of Carida.
- Ruusan is rediscovered by the smuggler Jerg.
- Han Solo wins the swoop racing championship for the entire Corellian system.
- 10 BBY
- The Second Great Droid Revolution occurs.
- Gavin Darklighter is born on Tatooine.
- Han Solo escapes from Trader's Luck and begins life on his own, apart from Garris Shrike's band of space gypsies.
- Beginning of the Reslian Purge.
- 9 BBY
- Following the fallout from the Battle of Kamino, the Empire begins to employ clones from different templates and non-clones into the Stormtrooper ranks.
- Dash Rendar enters the Imperial Academy.
- A groundquake crumbles Chadra-Fan civilization, converting those that survived into spacefaring nomads.
- The HWK-290 light freighter that would become Moldy Crow is manufactured.
- Sienar Fleet Systems purchases the patents and production rights to the Eta-2 Actis-interceptor and Alpha-3 Nimbus V-wing from Kuat Systems Engineering.
- Luke Skywalker contracts a case of Tatooine dust fever.
- An entire village of settlers on Coveway is killed by the new Imperial garrison's commander.
- 8 BBY
- The Contruum Rebellion begins.
- Han Solo earns the nickname "Slick" from Lieutenant Badure when he safely lands a malfunctioning U-33 orbital loadlifter.
- Emperor Palpatine discovers a method of transferring his consciousness into a new body in a Holocron retrieved from Jedi Master Ashka Boda.
- The Mount Tantiss storehouse on Wayland completes construction. Its architects, the V'Droz brothers, are killed to keep it a secret.
- Venthan Chassu's Selonian nudes are displayed in the Coronet City Museum of Fine Art on Corellia.
- Huegu Eib sells Gryseium Incorporated to Rigis Corazon.
- The Mecetti Province's government nationalizes its key industries.
- 7 BBY
- Hargeeva is annexed by the Galactic Empire.
- On Falleen, two hundred thousand Falleen perish in a controlled Imperial bombardment of a city ruled by Xizor's father to quarantine the spread of a biological weapon.
- Soontir Fel is assigned the 6th Squadron of the 37th Imperial Fighter Wing.
- Fliry Vorru is sent to Kessel after being framed by Prince Xizor.
- Ken is born on Kessel. Shortly after his birth he is spirited away to the Lost City of the Jedi on Yavin 4.
- Kyp Durron is born on Deyer.
- 6 BBY
- The Reslian Purge ends.
- Pooja Naberrie becomes Senator of Naboo at age 20.
- The civil war on Garos IV comes to an end.
- Loka Hask is expelled from the Imperial Academy. Han Solo graduates from the same institution.
- Xizor seizes control of Black Sun.
- Lando Calrissian visits Trammis III.
- Captain Hoffner and Talon Karrde discovers the Katana Fleet.
- 5 BBY
- Han Solo, now in a military academy, saves Chewbacca, now a slave, and is subsequently drummed out of the Imperial Navy. Chewbacca pledges a life-debt to Han Solo and remains his partner for the next three decades.
- Gial Ackbar is assigned to be Wilhuff Tarkin's personal valet.
- Lando Calrissian wins the Millennium Falcon in a game of sabacc.
- Kyle Katarn enters the Imperial Academy of Carida.
- All life on the planet Tund is eradicated by Rokur Gepta, the last of the Sorcerers of Tund.
- 4 BBY
- Lando Calrissian discovers the Mindharp; its accidental activation causes massive changes in the Rafa system.
- Jorj Car'das's starship is commandeered by a Bpfasshi Dark Jedi. The vessel crashes on Dagobah, where Yoda kills the Dark Jedi and heals Car'das.
- The Service Special blaster pistol is developed.
- Slyder moves onboard the Star of Empire.
- Navik the Red attempts to slaughter Greedo's family, forcing them to flee to Nar Shaddaa.
- On Zelos II, an attack on the capital city of Kryndyn by a horde of nocturnal predators resulted in the death of the planet's leaders. In response, general Galleros Nul declared a state of emergency and launched a successful counterattack. However, Nul, who had no intention giving up his power, did not lift the state of emergency.[158][159]
- 3 BBY
- Juno Eclipse participates in the Bombing of Callos.
- Gallofree Yards, Inc. goes bankrupt.
- Imperial Research Station 61 is built on Wayland.
- Canna Omonda becomes senator of Chandrila, replacing Mon Mothma.
- Lando Calrissian saves the Oswaft people and kills Rokur Gepta.
- Tavell Geen becomes Scrivinir of the Centrality.
- The Rebel spy post, Ghost Base, is discovered and captured by the Galactic Empire.
- The first recorded encounter with a Yarkora.
- Narg is taken over by the Galactic Empire.
- The Tsoss Beacon is constructed.
- 2 BBY
- The Alliance Starfighter Corps is created.
- Meant to eventually overthrow the Emperor, Darth Vader sends a secret apprentice, Galen Marek (primarily known by his code name, Starkiller), to hunt down and eradicate the last of the Jedi, including Rahm Kota (though he would survive his encounter with Starkiller) and Kazdan Paratus.
- Shaak Ti, one of the last surviving members of the Jedi High Council at the time of Order 66, is killed on Felucia by Galen Marek.
- Marek, under orders from Vader, seeks out the secret enemies of the Empire and convinces them to organize to actively fight the Emperor.
- Marek ultimately turns against both Vader and Palpatine and is killed by Palpatine during a confrontation on the first Death Star.
- Inspired by the death of Galen Marek, the Corellian Treaty is signed, giving birth to the Alliance to Restore the Republic.
- The Galactic Civil War begins.
- Jabba Desilijic Tiure takes formal control of the Desilijic kajidic after killing the offspring of Jiliac Desilijic Tiron.
- The Rebel Alliance begins Operation Skyhook, a series of campaigns to gain information about the Death Star.
- Emperor Palpatine creates the position of Grand Admiral.
- Large phrikite deposits are located on Gromas 16.
- The Cult of Varn is developed on Kamar.
- Han Solo wins the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian during a sabacc tournament on Cloud City.
- Hart-and-Parn Gorra-Fiolla, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Odumin disrupted the Bonadan slave trade.
- Greedo befriends Anky Fremp on Nar Shaddaa.
- Demetrius Zaarin becomes Grand Admiral at New Year Fete Week.
- Corellian Diktat Dupas Thomree dies.
- Han Solo and Chewbacca attempt a clotheslegging scheme in the Cron Drift.
- Lumiya enrolls at the Coruscani Pilot Institute.
- 1 BBY
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- Lumpawaroo, son of Chewbacca and Mallatobuck, is born on Kashyyyk.
- A group of Moffs led by Trachta, plot to overthrow Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. The plot fails and almost all of the conspirators are met with unspeakable deaths.
- Darth Vader attempts to create a stable clone of Galen Marek on Kamino. One clone of Marek, known simply as "Starkiller" (like Galen Marek originally was), escapes and rescues General Rahm Kota on Cato Neimoidia. Though reluctant at first, Starkiller joins the Rebel Alliance.
- Thanks to Starkiller's efforts, the Rebel Alliance win one of their first victories against the Empire at the Assault on Kamino. Darth Vader is captured by the Rebels, but escapes shortly afterwards.
The Rebellion era

- 0 BBY
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- The last of the Houk–Weequay conflicts takes place when the Galactic Empire subjugates Sriluur.[22]
- The Imperial Senate is formally disbanded, giving Emperor Palpatine absolute power.[160]
- The first Death Star finishes construction.[160]
- Despayre is destroyed by the Death Star in the first official test of the Death Star's superlaser.[160]
- The Rebel Alliance claim what they consider to be their first major victory against the Galactic Empire at the Battle of Toprawa, obtaining a full set of plans for the Death Star, which are then transmitted to Princess Leia Organa onboard her personal starship, the Tantive IV.[160]
- Princess Leia attempts to deliver the Death Star plans to her adoptive father, Bail Organa, on Alderaan, and also attempts to recruit the exiled Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi into the Alliance, but is captured by Darth Vader in orbit above Tatooine before she can.[160]
- Leia places the plans into the memory systems of the astromech droid R2-D2. R2-D2, along with the protocol droid C-3PO, escape to the surface of Tatooine, where they are recovered by a band of Jawas and subsequently sold to moisture farmer Owen Lars and his nephew Luke Skywalker.[160]
- In an attempt to locate Obi-Wan Kenobi, R2-D2 flees into the Jundland Wastes, but is recaptured by Luke and C-3PO. The three are attacked by a band of Tusken Raiders, but are subsequently rescued by Kenobi.[160]
- The Desert Sands are dispatched to the surface of Tatooine to recover the Death Star plans. Though they are unable to find the plans, they track their last known location to the Lars homestead, where they kill both Owen and Beru Lars. After this, Luke agrees to help Kenobi return the plans to the Rebel Alliance and announces his intent to become a Jedi.[160]
- Leia Organa is incarcerated onboard the Death Star. When she fails to yield the location of the Rebel Alliance's hidden base, her home planet, Alderaan, is ordered destroyed by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. Bail Organa is killed in the planet's destruction.[160]
- Admiral Natasi Daala is sent to oversee the Maw Installation by Grand Moff Tarkin.[161]
- Luke and Obi-Wan acquire the services of Han Solo and Chewbacca, who agree to take them to Alderaan onboard his ship, the Millennium Falcon. However, they are captured by the Death Star upon entering the system.[160]
- Leia Organa is rescued by Luke, Han and Chewbacca. Kenobi confronts Darth Vader for the first time since their duel on Mustafar nineteen years previously. He allows himself to be struck down by Vader to buy time for Luke and his friends to escape the Death Star onboard the Millennium Falcon, but lives on as a Force ghost.[160]
- Luke, Leia, and the droids arrive at the Rebel Alliance's hidden base on Yavin 4, where they subsequently analyze the Death Star plans to discover a potential weakness in the station; they find one in the form of a thermal exhaust port.[160]
- The Battle of Yavin begins when the Death Star arrives in the Yavin system with intent to destroy Yavin 4. A force of X-Wing starfighters is sent to destroy the Death Star following the successful analysis of the Death Star plans; though many Rebel fighters are destroyed, Luke Skywalker is successful in destroying the station thanks to the timely intervention of Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon. Grand Moff Tarkin, who is onboard the Death Star at the time of the station's destruction, is killed. The Alliance's victory at the Battle of Yavin marks a major turning point in the Galactic Civil War.[160]
- Following the Battle of Yavin, Luke, Han, and Chewbacca all formally join the Rebel Alliance.[160]
After the Battle of Yavin (ABY)
Rebellion era (continued) (0 ABY-4 ABY)
- 0 ABY
- Mon Calamari joins the Rebel Alliance.
- Beginning of the Krantian Civil War.
- Lumiya infiltrates the Rebel Alliance.
- The Super Star Destroyer Executor is launched under the command of Captain Kendal Ozzel. It is dispatched to destroy the Rebel base on Yavin. However, a miscalculation from Admiral Griff allows the Rebels to escape.
- The Bounty Hunter Wars begin with the collapse of the Bounty Hunters' Guild. The guild is split into two separate groups, the True Guild and the Guild Reform Committee.
- Construction begins on the second Death Star.
- Tycho Celchu defects to the Rebel Alliance.
- Sarkli defects to the Empire.
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- 1 ABY
- Imperial forces seize Bakura.
- The Codex of Tython is discovered on Dantooine.
- Han Solo and a small Alliance fleet are hired by an unknown party to assault an Imperial space station to rescue an unidentified imprisoned spacer. They manage to escape aboard the Millennium Falcon to Tansarii Point Station.
- Crix Madine defects from the Empire to the Alliance.
- Zef Ando, a Rodian squatter, claims the abandoned Lars homestead as his own.
- Jaden Korr is born. (Approximate date)
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- 2 ABY
- Corran Horn becomes an officer in the Corellian Security Force.
- An Imperial force led by Darth Vader catches up to some of the Rebels on Ord Mantell. It is here that Emperor Palpatine learns the name of the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star, Luke Skywalker, but withholds this information from Darth Vader until the time is right. While on Ord Mantell, Skorr, a bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt, nearly captures Han Solo.
- Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa discover the Kaiburr crystal on Mimban.
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- Rogue Squadron is formed by Luke Skywalker.
- Echo Base is constructed on Hoth to serve as the Rebel Alliance's primary command center.
- 3 ABY
- The Battle of Hoth occurs when the Empire discovers Echo Base, successfully destroying the base.[162]
- Admiral Kendal Ozzel is killed by Darth Vader for incompetence and Captain Firmus Piett assumes command of Vader's fleet.[162]
- Luke Skywalker discovers Jedi Master Yoda on Dagobah, and trains under him. When he receives disturbing visions of the future he halts his training but promises to return.[162]
- Emperor Palpatine contacts Darth Vader aboard the Super Star Destroyer Executor and reveals Luke Skywalker's parentage to Vader. Vader suggests a plan to capture and convert Luke rather than kill him as originally suggested. Seeing the potential a more powerful apprentice would have, Palpatine agrees.[162]
- Bespin is subjugated by the Galactic Empire.[162]
- Boba Fett captures Han Solo to take him to Jabba Desilijic Tiure after Solo is frozen in carbonite on Cloud City. Lando Calrissian joins the Rebel Alliance.[162]
- Darth Vader duels Luke Skywalker in Cloud City and reveals that he is Luke's father.[162]
- After being driven off Hoth, the Alliance establishes Haven Base on Arbra.[163]
- Prince Xizor is killed by Darth Vader and Black Sun collapses.[164]
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- 4 ABY
- Lumiya is made an Emperor's Hand and travels to Ziost to learn the ways of the Sith.
- Han Solo is rescued from Jabba Desilijic Tiure and Jabba is killed by Leia Organa. Boba Fett manages to escape the sarlacc, killing it.[165]
- Yoda dies. Luke Skywalker learns that Leia Organa is his long-lost twin sister and eventually reveals this information to her.[165]
- The Battle of Endor begins. Luke Skywalker surrenders to Darth Vader and the Rebel Alliance successfully destroys the shield generator with the help of the Ewoks. Luke duels with Vader. Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker is redeemed to the light side of the Force by the efforts of Luke Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker kills Palpatine, saving his son's life, and dies on the light side. The prophecy of the Chosen One is fulfilled[165] as he brings balance to the Force.
- Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles and Nien Nunb destroy the second Death Star, bringing about the defining turning point in the Galactic Civil War. No longer under the sway of its dark Sith rulers, the Empire begins to tear itself apart through warlordism. Admiral Piett dies when the Executor crashes into the Death Star.[165]
- A celebration across the galaxy begins at the fall of the Empire and the death of Palpatine. Still on Endor, Luke catches a glimpse of the ghosts of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and his father, Anakin Skywalker off away from the Ewok party.[165]
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- A small Rebel task force responds to a distress call at Bakura. Converting into the Alliance of Free Planets, the Imperial and Alliance forces sign the Truce at Bakura, a ceasefire to work together to repel the invading Ssi-ruuk.
The New Republic era (4 ABY-25 ABY)

- 4 ABY
- Beginning of the Imperial Civil War.
- The New Republic is established.
- Lowbacca is born on Kashyyyk.
- Danni Quee is born on Commenor.
- A'Sharad Hett emerges from the Sith tombs on Korriban and departs into the Unknown Regions.
- Silya Shessaun dies.
- The Nagai–Tof War is fought.
- 5 ABY
- Luke Skywalker attains the rank of General. Six months later, after Imperial forces under the command of Lord Shadowspawn fought to the last man against his army, he retires from the military.
- Sate Pestage dies.
- Ysanne Isard engages in a series of political maneuvers to damage the New Republic and seize control of the Empire.
- Zorba Desilijic Tiure's imprisonment on Kip finally ends after Kip is overrun by space pirates.
- Trioculus takes control of the remnants of the Empire in opposition to Ysanne Isard. He is killed that same year and his position taken over by the imposter posing as Kadann who is killed later.
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- 6 ABY
- Rogue Squadron reforms under Wedge Antilles.
- New Republic forces switch from the guerrilla tactics of the Alliance to a campaign of claiming important Core Worlds as the Empire's grip crumbles.
- Zsinj begins his campaign against the New Republic.
- Imperial Grand Admiral Octavian Grant defects to the New Republic.
- End of the Krantian Civil War.
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- 7 ABY
- The New Republic captures Coruscant from the Empire as it continues to deteriorate.
- Jagged Fel is born on Nirauan.
- Ysanne Isard leaves an artificial virus called the Krytos virus that infects all non-Humans, behind on Coruscant to drain the New Republic's already strained resources and create an enmity between Humans and non-Humans. Together these are designed to tear the New Republic apart.
- Corran Horn learns about his Jedi heritage.
- Wedge Antilles and the rest of Rogue Squadron leave the New Republic military and begin the Bacta War against Ysanne Isard.
- Wedge Antilles and the former Rogue Squadron members attack Thyferra to get bacta for the New Republic.
- The New Republic receives the needed bacta from Wedge Antilles and the former Rogue Squadron to eliminate the plague. Isard fakes her death and disappears.
- Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik are married.
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- 8 ABY
- Leia Organa marries Han Solo.
- Prince Isolder allies the Hapes Consortium with the New Republic.
- Zsinj dies during the Battle of Dathomir.
- Anaxes joins the New Republic.
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- 9 ABY
- Jacen and Jaina Solo are born to Leia Organa and Han Solo.
- Beginning of the Thrawn Crisis: Grand Admiral Thrawn returns from the Unknown Regions and seizes control of the Imperial fleet, managing to recruit Captain Gilad Pellaeon and the insane Dark Jedi clone Joruus C'baoth to his cause.[101][166][167]
- Thrawn gains custody of a large portion of the lost Katana fleet.
- The Smugglers' Alliance is founded by Talon Karrde in order to assist the New Republic against Thrawn's forces.
- The Battle of Bilbringi is fought: Thrawn is assassinated by his bodyguard, Rukh. His death marks the end of the Thrawn Crisis.
- Joruus C'baoth is killed at Mount Tantiss by Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade.
- Bestine IV joins the New Republic.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi's spirit moves on.[101]
- The Noghri defect to the New Republic when they discover that the Empire has been manipulating them and polluting their world.[167]
- Ysanne Isard returns, and helps Rogue Squadron defeat her clone, who is using a warlord to do her dirty work. Isard is killed by Iella Wessiri on the Lusankya, while Wedge Antilles kills the clone and warlord.
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- 10 ABY
- Luke Skywalker meets Kam Solusar.
- Alema Rar is born on Ryloth. (Approximate date)
- The Galactic Empire recaptures Coruscant, but splinters into factions, and fights with each other. The New Republic is forced to hide at Pinnacle Base.[168]
- Operation Shadow Hand: the Empire is revitalized as the "Dark Empire" under the rule of the reborn Emperor Palpatine, who seduces Luke Skywalker to the dark side of the Force and makes him his second-in-command. However, Luke turns against him and kills Palpatine with Leia and destroys his flagship Eclipse.[168]
- The New Republic wins the Battle of Calamari.[168]
- Anakin Solo is born to Leia Organa and Han Solo.[169]
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- 11 ABY
- Ponc Gavrisom is elected to the New Republic Senate.
- Palpatine returns again, but Empatajayos Brand destroys his life-force. Brand dies and Palpatine is ultimately dead, freeing the Empire from Sith rule once again.
- R2-D2 destroys Eclipse II and the Galaxy Gun, causing the destruction of the Imperial Fleet, and the planet Byss, where Palpatine's cloning machines were located.[169][170]
- Carnor Jax briefly reorganizes Palpatine's Dark Empire into the Crimson Empire, but he is killed on Yinchorr before the movement gains any significant traction.
- The New Republic reoccupies Coruscant.
- Luke Skywalker establishes the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4, and his sister Leia becomes Chief of State of the New Republic.
- The Battle of Ord Cantrell is fought. The last Galactic Emperor, Xandel Carivus is executed by Kir Kanos.[171]
- The planet Anoth is rediscovered by Luke Skywalker and Admiral Gial Ackbar.
- Admiral Natasi Daala and her fleet of Star Destroyers emerge from the Maw after 11 years in isolation.
- Kyp Durron, under the influence of Exar Kun, uses the Sun Crusher to destroy Carida.
- Corran Horn trains at the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4. He rescues his wife from Leonia Tavira, and destroys the Invids from the inside-out.
- Exar Kun's spirit is destroyed.
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- 12 ABY
- The term "Imperial Remnant" is used for the first time referring to the shattered remains of the Empire, now unified under Gilad Pellaeon. After her defeat in the Assault on Yavin 4, Admiral Daala turns control of the United Warlord Fleets over to Pellaeon, who forms the Remnant. The Council of Moffs is formed to serve as the Remnant's governing body. This marks the end of the Imperial Civil War.
- Darksaber is constructed.
- Crix Madine is killed.
- The lost superweapon Eye of Palpatine is found by former Emperor's Hand Roganda Ismaren, who uses it in a plot to restore the Galactic Empire. This plot is foiled by Luke Skywalker, Nichos Marr, and Cray Mingla, who destroy the Eye.
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- 13 ABY
- Seti Ashgad resurfaces for the first time in nearly three decades and unleashes the Death Seed plague to try and conquer the galaxy.
- Nien Nunb becomes the Administrator of Kessel.
- Tahiri Veila is born to Cassa and Tryst Veila.[172]
- Adumar joins the New Republic as a planetary government.
- Valin Horn is born on Coruscant.
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- 14 ABY
- Lord Hethrir captures Han and Leia's children, but is defeated.
- Rise and fall of the Disciples of Ragnos.[173]
- Following the collapse of the Empire Reborn movement, and destruction of Disciples of Ragnos cult, major armed conflict between the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant drops off, turning into almost a cold war.
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- 15 ABY
- Tahiri Veila is orphaned.
- Luke Skywalker confronts Brakiss for his dark side leanings. Brakiss flees Yavin 4.
- Ailyn Vel concludes that her father, Boba Fett, is dead.
- Sliven is injured badly during a battle between his tribe of Tusken Raiders and a group of smugglers.
- Lord Cronal is killed for the final time on Andooweel. (Approximate date)
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- 16 ABY
- Jysella Horn is born. (Approximate date)
- The Black Fleet Crisis.
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- 18 ABY
- The Corellian Insurrection.
- Kam Solusar marries Tionne.
- Admiral Gilad Pellaeon resurfaces to launch a major offensive against the New Republic, the last gasp of the once-powerful Empire. NR forces under Admiral Gial Ackbar defeat Pellaeon in the Battle of Anx Minor. The Imperial Remnant is reduced to a mere eight backwater sectors in the Outer Rim Territories, now posing no threat whatsoever to the New Republic and/or the Galaxy at large.
- Ponc Gavrisom is elected Chief of State of the New Republic, succeeding Leia Organa Solo.
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- 19 ABY
- Viqi Shesh is elected to the New Republic Senate, representing Kuat.
- The Caamas Document Crisis.
- The New Republic and the last fragment of the Empire sign the Pellaeon–Gavrisom Treaty, ending the 21-year-long Galactic Civil War.[174]
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- 21 ABY
- GemDiver Station completes construction.
- Leia Organa Solo is reinstated as Chief of State of the New Republic.
- 22 ABY
- Danni Quee joins the Extragalactic Society.
- Jacen and Jaina Solo join the Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4.
- Their younger brother Anakin Solo joins the Junior Jedi Class of the Academy months later and befriends a young Human girl named Tahiri Veila. The two young trainees have several adventures, including discovering the Golden Globe and the ancient Jedi Master Ikrit and accompanying their Melodie friend Lyric to her homeworld of Yavin 8 to undergo an important ceremony. Anakin later returns to Coruscant where he attended school, developed his piloting skills, and studied under the careful tutelage of C-3PO.
- Lando Calrissian's memoir, How to Succeed in Everything, is published.
- 23 ABY
- Jacen and Jaina Solo fight against the Second Imperium which attempts to disrupt the peace between the New Republic and Imperial Remnant, as it has become known, and restart the Galactic Civil War.
- Following the defeat of the Shadow Academy, the Jedi Academy is rebuilt. Anakin Solo also came to aid in the reconstruction efforts.
- Leia Organa Solo resigns her post as Chief of State and the Bothan Borsk Fey'lya replaces her.
- Sien Sovv becomes Supreme Commander of the New Republic Defense Force.
- Boba Fett retires from bounty hunting and claims the title of Mandalore.
- The Diversity Alliance, an extremist anti-Human organization, is formed.
- 24 ABY
- The Diversity Alliance is defeated by the Solo twins.
- An attempt by Czethros to return Black Sun to its former glory is thwarted by the Solo twins and their Jedi companions.
- Lando Calrissian establishes a mining operation in the Dubrillion system.
- The lightsaber of Obi-Wan Kenobi is found at Bast Castle on Vjun.
- Luke Skywalker finds the lost Book of Sith in the ruins of Mount Tantiss.[157]
- Yomin Carr infiltrates the Extragalactic Society.
- Jan Dodonna dies.[134]
- The Cooperative Council of Independent Planetary Governments is formed.[175]