Timeline

A chronological timeline of events leading up to the present day in our setting.

Legend

• RE: Republic Era - Current calendar used by the Galactic Republic. 1 RE = 1032 BBY
• PRE: Pre-Republic Era - denotes events which occurred before the current epoch of the Galactic Republic calendar

The Old Republic (c. 25 millennia – c. 1000 BBY)

Ancient beginnings (c. 25000 BBY) (PRE)

• c. 25,000 BBY
  • The Galactic Republic is formed.The Dai Bendu, the religious group that would be attributed with the first holocrons, exists as the would-be precursor to the Jedi Order.
  • In pursuit of the preservation of peace and justice, an individual who came to be known as the Prime Jedi founds the Jedi Order on Ahch-To.
  • Shortly after the founding of the Jedi Order, the world Ilum is discovered by a Jedi scout through Force-assisted hyperspace navigation.

c. 25000 – c. 5000 BBY (PRE)

• c. 12,000 BBY
  • As credited by the Jedi, the planet Ossus comes to be their cultural center, and is made a near-mandatory pilgrimage site.

• The Temple of the Kyber is constructed on the cold, desert moon of Jedha.
• A rogue Jedi leads a group of Force users to seek greater power through embracing the dark side of the Force. They split from the Jedi Order during the schism known as the Hundred-Year Darkness, becoming the rivalling Sith. Defeated, they are exiled by the Jedi Order and flee from known space to Moraband.
• Unbeknownst to others, the Sith on Moraband rebuild and await their revenge. Meanwhile, massive Sith temples and tombs are built in a location known as the Valley of the Dark Lords.
• Over time, the Sith Empire, with the use of slaves, vies for control of the galaxy.

Fall of the Old Republic (c. 5000 – c. 1000 BBY) (PRE)

Battles with the Jedi (c. 5000 BBY)

• c. 5000 BBY
  • Soon after Empress Teta's Unification Wars, the Great Hyperspace War is waged according to the Qel-Droma Epics.
  • The Sith wages a war against the Jedi and the Galactic Republic,[13] which sees the fall of the Republic capital Coruscant. This allows the Sith to build a shrine on the planet, then exuding the force of the dark side.

• c. 5000 – c. 1000 BBY

During the fall of the Old Republic (chronology undefined)

• The Mandalorian-Jedi War occurs.
  • The Mandalorian crusades occur as part of the Mandalorian-Jedi War.
  • Mandalore is reduced to a barren wasteland in the final stages o the Mandalorian-Jedi War.
• c. 1000 BBY (chronology undefined)
  • Pre-Dark Age
    • The Mandalorian Jedi Tarre Vizsla creates the Darksaber
    • Collapse of the Galactic Republic; beginning of the Dark Age.

Dark Age (c. 1000 BBY)

• 1000 - 1032 BBY
  • Mandalorians of House Vizsla liberate the Darksaber from the Jedi Temple.
• ~1000 BBY
  • The Jedi-Sith War ends with the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic victorious.
    • Coruscant is liberated from Sith control by the Jedi and remnants of the Galactic Republic.
    • The Brotherhood of Darkness is defeated by the Jedi's Army of Light as a result of infighting amongst themselves. The Sith, who once numbered thousands, are driven into hiding and are eventually thought extinct.
  • The sole Sith survivor, Darth Bane, creates the Great Plan—a plot to destroy the Jedi and the Republic from within for the coming of Sith rule over the galaxy—and establishes the Rule of Two, a lineage of Sith who would operate in the shadows, preserving the Sith's vendetta against the Jedi whilst preparing for their own return. The Rule of Two is revealed to the Jedi Order, though still they presume the Sith's eradication and believe that Bane's plan is ruined with his defeat allegedly at the hands of his apprentice, Darth Zannah

Republic Era (c. 1000–19 BBY) (RE)

Rise of the Republic (c. 1000 BBY)

• c. 1032 BBY (continued)
  • Founding of the modern Galactic Republic; with the Republic's definitive victory, its capital resettles on Coruscant, and the time before this rebirth is forgotten as a dark age, the "Old Republic." Official calendars begin anew, and the Old Republic military is disbanded. The Galactic Senate, newly-founded by several star systems, elects Tarsus Valorum as the first Supreme Chancellor.
  • The Jedi Temple on Coruscant begins serving as the Jedi Order's operational and spiritual headquarters.
• c. 1014 BBY
  • The Jedi Temple on Ilum was built.
• c. 1000 – c. 300 BBY
  • c. 867 BBY
    • Naboo joins the Galactic Republic.
    • c. 832 BBY
      • Theed is founded, and the Theed Royal Palace is constructed in the same year under the direction of King Jafan. Uniter and ruler of all the Naboo, Jafan becomes the first ruler of the Great Time of Peace.
    • c. 797 BBY
      • Yoda begins to train Jedi in the ways of the Force
    • c. 620 BBY
      • The Antarian Rangers are founded to assist the Jedi Order as a security force on Antar IV.
    • c. 522 BBY
      • The Citadel is built on Lola Sayu to imprison rogue Jedi.

High Republic Era (c. ~300 BBY) (Current RE)

• 383 BBY - The Great Hyperspace Rush
  • There is a rush to map and claim the existing yet unknown hyperspace routes as the Galactic Republic expanded into the outer regions of the galaxy.
• 382 BBY
  • Night of Sorrow/Battle of Dalna - A devastating battle in which the Jedi Order and Galactic Republic fought the Path of the Open Hand cult and its newly organized Path of the Closed Fist subgroup, on the Outer Rim Territories planet Dalna in 382 BBY when the planet was newly settled.
  • Battle of Jedha - This battle was fought on the Mid Rim moon of Jedha in 382 BBY between the warring factions of the planets Eiram and E'ronoh, several Force-worshipping sects present in the Holy City of Jedha, the Jedi Order and forces of the Galactic Republic.
  • Eiram and E'ronoh enter a cold war - After years of sporadic conflicts, the two adjacent planets, entrenched in a history of on-and-off disputes, finally glimpse a semblance of peace as the respective royalties unite in matrimony, a sincere endeavor to foster peace. However, instead of conclusively ending the conflict, their wedlock triggers a cold war between the two planets.
• c. 332 BBY
  • The Galactic Republic undertakes a hyperspace mapping project, making hyperspace travel safer
• c. 300 BBY - The era Pax Republica is set in.