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- Date unknownFounding of the Jedi OrderThe Jedi Order existed long before the events described here; the available primary sources do not say exactly when it was founded.
- c. 32 BBYBlockade of NabooThe Trade Federation cut off access to Naboo, forcing the Republic to seek a political solution.
- c. 32 BBYAnakin is discovered on TatooineOn Tatooine, a boy named Anakin Skywalker is discovered and his abilities draw attention.
- c. 32 BBYBattle of NabooThe joint efforts of the planet's defenders break the blockade and end the crisis.
- c. 32 BBYTrade Federation landing on NabooFollowing the blockade, a droid army landed on the planet and occupied the capital.
- c. 32 BBYRace on TatooineVictory in a race won a slave boy his freedom and opened the way to training with the Jedi.
- c. 32 BBYPalpatine elected ChancellorA change of chancellor amid the crisis brought to the summit of power a senator who was secretly controlling both sides.
- c. 32 BBYAppearance of a Sith on NabooA fight with a dark side warrior was the first confirmation in centuries that the Sith had not vanished.
- c. 32 BBYLiberation of NabooThe queen fought her way back, uniting the townspeople and the Gungans against the occupying droid army.
- c. 32 BBYDeath of Qui-Gon JinnDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- Fall of the JediMission of Dooku and Qui-GonJedi Dooku and his Padawan Qui-Gon set out on a mission involving the kidnapping of a senator's son.
- 32 BBYSidious kills his master Darth PlagueisOn Coruscant, in a residential complex belonging to the Muun Hego Damask, the apprentice strikes at his master. Darth Sidious kills Darth Plagueis in his sleep, completing years of training under the Rule of Two and remaining the sole full Lord of the Sith on the eve of a decisive year for the Republic.
- c. Between 68 and 58 BBYDooku and Qui-Gon arrive at the villageJedi Master Dooku and his Padawan Qui-Gon Jinn arrive by shuttle on the planet where Senator Dagonet's son has been kidnapped. The residents of the dilapidated village greet the strangers with hostility, locking their doors and windows. In the local cantina, an elderly resident admits that the kidnapping was the work of the villagers themselves, driven to despair because the senator's long service in the Republic had enriched only himself.
- c. Between 68 and 58 BBYStandoff at the barn and Dooku's summary justiceDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. Between 68 and 58 BBYQui-Gon's mercy and the senator's son's promiseDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- 29 BBYObi-Wan and Anakin set out for Zonama SekotObi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker arrive on the living planet Zonama Sekot to learn about the mysterious organic ships considered among the fastest in the galaxy and to find the missing Jedi Vergere. The planet's seed-partners grow a ship for them, which Anakin names Jabitha.
- 29 BBYSienar and Tarkin's fleet attacks Zonama SekotA force under the command of Raith Sienar and Wilhuff Tarkin attacks Zonama Sekot. During the battle, Anakin Skywalker defeats the Blood Carver assassin Ke Daiv, after which the Jedi leave the system and head for the planet Selin.
- 29 BBYRaith Sienar develops the battle planetoid designThe designer Raith Sienar prepares plans for an expeditionary battle planetoid, a huge mobile station. This design will become the starting point for the project from which the Death Star later grows.
- c. 24 BBYSeparatist CrisisThe mass secession of systems from the Republic brought it to the brink of collapse even before open war began.
- c. 22 BBYAssassination attempt on Senator AmidalaAn attempt on the senator's life on Coruscant leads to an investigation that uncovers preparations for war.
- c. 22 BBYBattle of GeonosisThe first open clash between the Republic and the Confederacy, which marks the start of the Clone Wars.
- c. 22 BBYDiscovery of the clone armyAn investigation led a Jedi to an ocean world where an army for the Republic was already being grown on an unknown party's order.
- c. 22 BBYEmergency powers granted to the ChancellorThe Senate granted the chancellor special powers that allowed him to command the army single-handedly.
- c. 22 BBYBeginning of the Clone WarsThe first open clash between the Republic's army and the forces of the Confederacy set the galaxy on course for full-scale war.
- c. 22 BBYBattle of ChristophsisThe Republic retook a crystalline world from the Separatists in the first weeks of the war.
- c. 22 BBYBlockade of RylothThe Separatist siege of the planet condemned its population to starvation and forced the Republic to launch a relief effort.
- c. 22 BBYLiberation of RylothRepublic forces, together with the local resistance, lifted the blockade and drove the Separatist troops off the planet.
- c. 22 BBYSecret marriage of Anakin and PadméA Jedi and a senator married in defiance of the Order's code, keeping it hidden from everyone.
- 22 BBYDeath of Governor Ghez Hokan on QiiluraPadawan Etain Tur-Mukan, who lost her master Kast Fulier, finishes off Ghez Hokan, the commander of the local militia, and takes her fallen master's lightsaber from him. After Omega Squad is evacuated, she remains on the planet with Master Arligan Zey.
- 22 BBYMace Windu ends the Summertime War on Haruun KalThe cyclical war between the Korunnai and the Balawai, which had become a proxy front of the Clone Wars, comes to an end. The Korunnai, led by Windu and Billaba, take the Pelek Baw spaceport, Windu overcomes Depa Billaba and Kar Vastor, and the sides then agree, with him as mediator, to form a joint democratic government.
- 22 BBYSabotage by Omega Squad on QiiluraFour clone commandos, Niner, Darman, Fi, and Atin, operate as Omega Squad for the first time. Their mission on Separatist-held Qiilura is to destroy the laboratory where a nanovirus lethal to clones was being developed and to capture the project's leader, Dr. Ovolot Qail Uthan.
- 22 BBYDepa Billaba's fall to the dark sideJedi Master Depa Billaba, sent to raise a resistance on Haruun Kal, loses contact with the Order. A recovered recording of her voice reveals madness and cruelty, and Mace Windu, arriving on his home planet, becomes convinced that his former Padawan has turned to the dark side and is guilty of war crimes.
- c. 21 BBYSecond Battle of GeonosisThe Republic returned to the planet to destroy the factories supplying the Separatist armies with droids.
- c. 20 BBYFormation of the Shadow CollectiveA surviving Sith brought crime syndicates together into a single force and used them to seize Mandalore.
- Fall of the JediExtermination of the Nightsisters on DathomirAfter the Nightsisters' schemes against Count Dooku failed, he sent General Grievous to Dathomir. The witches fought back with ancient spells but were defeated, and the order's rule over the planet came to an end.
- c. 20 BBYAhsoka Tano leaves the Jedi OrderThe falsely accused Padawan was exonerated but refused to return to an Order that had lost her trust.
- c. 19 BBYBattle of CoruscantAn attack on the Republic's capital and the rescue of the Supreme Chancellor from captivity.
- c. 19 BBYOrder 66Description hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYOuter Rim SiegesProlonged fighting on the fringes scattered the leading Jedi across the fronts and left the capital without their protection.
- c. 19 BBYDeath of Count DookuDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYCouncil denies Anakin the rank of MasterPlaced on the Council at the chancellor's behest but not granted the rank of master, the Jedi grew fully estranged from the Order.
- c. 19 BBYSiege of MandaloreRepublic forces, together with the Mandalorian resistance, took Mandalore's capital and captured Maul.
- c. 19 BBYBattle of KashyyykThe Republic and the Wookiees defended a forest world in the final weeks of the war.
- c. 19 BBYBattle of UtapauThe Republic tracked down and destroyed the Separatist military leader, depriving the Confederacy of its command.
- c. 19 BBYCouncil's attempt to remove the ChancellorDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYAssault on the Jedi TempleDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYDestruction of the Separatist CouncilDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYDuel on MustafarDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYSaving the clones from the orderDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
- c. 19 BBYMeeting of Yoda and Count Dooku on VjunDooku invites his former master to truce negotiations, but the meeting at Château Malreaux turns out to be a trap. Yoda tries to bring his apprentice back from the dark side, but the conversation breaks down with the arrival of Kenobi and Skywalker and turns into a duel, and Dooku escapes together with Ventress.
- c. 19 BBYAsajj Ventress kills Masters Jai Maruk and Maks LeemDiscovering the ruse with Yoda's double, the dark Jedi Asajj Ventress intercepts the real Grand Master at the Phindar spaceport. Masters Jai Maruk and Maks Leem, who were escorting Yoda, are killed in the fight with her and the battle droids, and their Padawans continue on with Yoda.
- 19 BBYGrievous destroys refugee ships at BelderoneHaving cracked the Separatist code through a captured transmitter, Republic intelligence thwarts the invasion of Belderone. Realizing that the battle is lost, General Grievous fires on the evacuation ships before withdrawing: more than ten thousand people are killed, including twenty-seven Jedi.
- 19 BBYJedi seize Nute Gunray's mechno-chair on Cato NeimoidiaAn operation to capture the Viceroy of the Trade Federation fails: Gunray slips away but abandons his mechno-chair with its built-in transceiver. Anakin Skywalker disables the chair's self-destruct, and the Republic obtains a recording of the Viceroy's communications with Darth Sidious.
- 19 BBYJedi hunt for Darth Sidious in Coruscant's industrial districtThe trail from the captured transmitter leads Mace Windu and Shaak Ti to an abandoned industrial district of the capital. A search party of troopers and Padawans makes its way through the tunnels from Sidious's lair to the Senate District and emerges at the 500 Republica skyscraper, but the operation is cut short by the start of the attack on Coruscant.