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  1. c. 19 BBYBattle of CoruscantAn attack on the Republic's capital and the rescue of the Supreme Chancellor from captivity.
  2. c. 19 BBYOrder 66Description hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  3. c. 19 BBYProclamation of the Galactic EmpireDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  4. c. 19 BBYBirth of the Skywalker twinsDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  5. 19 BBY–0 ABYConstruction of the Imperial battle stationThe Empire builds an enormous battle station; the work spans nearly the entire period between the fall of the Republic and the station's first use.
  6. Reign of the EmpireFormation of the Rebel AllianceScattered resistance to Imperial rule coalesces into a single Alliance; the moment of its formation cannot be determined from the available primary sources.
  7. c. 19 BBYOuter Rim SiegesProlonged fighting on the fringes scattered the leading Jedi across the fronts and left the capital without their protection.
  8. c. 19 BBYDeath of Count DookuDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  9. 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.
  10. c. 19 BBYSiege of MandaloreRepublic forces, together with the Mandalorian resistance, took Mandalore's capital and captured Maul.
  11. c. 19 BBYBattle of KashyyykThe Republic and the Wookiees defended a forest world in the final weeks of the war.
  12. c. 19 BBYBattle of UtapauThe Republic tracked down and destroyed the Separatist military leader, depriving the Confederacy of its command.
  13. c. 19 BBYCouncil's attempt to remove the ChancellorDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  14. c. 19 BBYAssault on the Jedi TempleDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  15. c. 19 BBYDestruction of the Separatist CouncilDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  16. c. 19 BBYDuel on MustafarDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  17. c. 19 BBYSaving the clones from the orderDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  18. c. 19 BBYYoda goes into exileDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  19. c. 19 BBYDeath of Padmé AmidalaDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  20. c. 19 BBYLuke Skywalker hidden on TatooineDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  21. c. 19 BBYDestruction of the cloning facilities on KaminoThe Empire destroyed the facilities where the army had been grown, abandoning clones in favor of recruited soldiers.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 19 BBYDeath of Senator Fang Zar on AlderaanThe Emperor orders Vader to capture Fang Zar, the troublesome senator from Sern Prime. The Dark Lord catches up with the fugitives on Alderaan just as they are preparing to leave and kills the senator with his lightsaber; his companions manage to save the badly wounded Jula, Roan Shryne's mother.
  28. 19 BBYFall of Kashyyyk and death of Roan ShryneImperial assault forces land on Kashyyyk, where the surviving Jedi fight side by side with the Wookiees. Roan Shryne takes on Vader to let Olee Starstone escape and is killed; Chewbacca gets the remaining Jedi away, and the planet falls under the Empire's control.
  29. 19 BBYVader investigates the unexecuted order on MurkhanaA few weeks after the fall of the Jedi Order, the Emperor sends his apprentice to Murkhana: some of the clones failed to finish exterminating the Jedi. There the Dark Lord duels Master Bol Chatak and kills her, but Roan Shryne and the Padawan Olee Starstone manage to escape the planet.
  30. 19 BBYNosaurian resistance crushed on New PlymptoImperial forces wipe out the Nosaurian resistance on its home planet. The only survivors are the former Jedi General Dass Jennir and the scout Bomo Greenbark, who make their way to the spaceport and, unable to find their fellow Nosaurians' families, arrange help with the crew of a passing ship.
  31. Reign of the EmpireAhsoka's return to the fightDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  32. c. 18 BBYCreation of the Inquisitor serviceThe Empire trained former Force-sensitives to hunt their own kind, turning the search for Jedi into a systematic operation.
  33. c. 18 BBYHunt for the surviving JediThe Empire created the Inquisitorius, which spent years hunting down those who had survived the destruction of the Order.
  34. c. 18 BBYDeployment of the Imperial fleetThe Empire shifted military production to large warships, ensuring a presence of its forces in every sector.
  35. c. 18 BBYEmpire abandons the clone armyClones were replaced by recruited soldiers: conscription was cheaper and did not depend on a single planet.
  36. c. 18 BBYAssault on Mount Tantiss and the end of Project NecromancerA clone squad fought its way into the secret base, the prisoners broke free, and the project's research was destroyed along with its leader.
  37. c. 18 BBYDeath of Kento Marek and the emergence of the secret apprenticeVader arrives on Kashyyyk on the trail of a Jedi protecting the Wookiees and kills Kento Marek. Discovering that the dead man's young son is unusually strong, the Dark Lord kills his own subordinates, takes the boy, and secretly raises him behind the Emperor's back as an apprentice under the name Starkiller.
  38. 13 BBYHan and Qi'ra's escape from CorelliaOn the shipbuilding world of Corellia, young Han and his friend Qi'ra break free of Lady Proxima's White Worms crime syndicate, stealing a vial of coaxium hyperfuel. In a stolen speeder they shake off their pursuers and reach Coronet spaceport, where they bribe an Imperial official with the coaxium. Han gets through the checkpoint, but Qi'ra is caught by the syndicate's henchmen, and he vows to come back for her.
  39. c. 10 BBYHan Solo escapes from Garris ShrikeA young man raised on a pirate ship under the rule of Garris Shrike decides to run away and hire on as a pilot on Ylesia. The escape is discovered; in the fight, the Wookiee cook Dewlanna mortally wounds Shrike but is killed herself, and her pupil leaves the ship on a cargo run, taking with him a knowledge of the Wookiee language.
  40. 10 BBYHan's Imperial Army service on MimbanWith no money for a ticket, Han enlists in the Imperial Navy, and the recruiter gives him the surname Solo. Three years later he is expelled from the flight academy for insubordination and fights as a mudtrooper on the planet Mimban against the Mimban Liberation Army. In the trenches he meets “Captain” Tobias Beckett and his accomplices, who are posing as Imperial soldiers.
  41. 10 BBYHan meets ChewbaccaFor attempting to desert, Han is thrown into a pit with the “beast,” which turns out to be Chewbacca, a Wookiee enslaved by the Empire. Speaking Shyriiwook, Han convinces the Wookiee to team up, and together they bring down a support of the grate and climb out. Beckett's gang picks up the fugitives, and together they leave Mimban aboard a stolen hauler.
  42. 10 BBYConveyex heist on VandorOn snowy Vandor, Beckett's gang tries to lift a car of refined coaxium off a rail conveyex. The raid is disrupted by the Cloud-Riders led by Enfys Nest: Rio Durant is mortally wounded, and Val blows up the bridge along with herself. To avoid getting Beckett and Chewbacca killed, Han uncouples the car, and the cargo falls into the gorge and explodes.
  43. 10 BBYRaid on the Kessel minesTo pay off Dryden Vos, the crew aboard Lando Calrissian's Millennium Falcon infiltrates the Pyke syndicate's mines posing as slavers and slaves. The droid L3-37 removes the restraining bolts from the local droids and starts a slave uprising, while Han carries twelve canisters of unrefined coaxium out of the thermal vault. During the escape, L3-37 is destroyed by enemy fire and Lando is wounded.
  44. 10 BBYKessel Run in twelve parsecsBecause of the instability of the unrefined coaxium, Han flies the Millennium Falcon straight through the Akkadese Maelstrom, evading Imperial fighters and the summa-verminoth monster. The navigational data of the destroyed L3-37 is transferred into the ship's systems, which helps find a way out of the Maw's gravity well. After landing on Savareen, Han declares that he made the Kessel Run in just twelve parsecs, rounding in his own favor.
  45. 10 BBYShowdown on SavareenDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  46. c. 9 BBYKenobi and Vader meet a decade laterDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  47. c. 5 BBYLuthen Rael's underground networkFor years the antiquities dealer wove scattered cells into a single network, paying for it with other people's lives and his own.
  48. c. 5 BBYRaid on the Imperial garrison on AldhaniA small crew made off with an entire sector's payroll, and the Empire responded by tightening its laws across the galaxy.
  49. c. 5 BBYGreat Purge of MandaloreThe Empire scorched the Mandalorians' homeworld, destroying its cities and scattering the clans across the galaxy.
  50. c. 5 BBYEmergence of the cell on LothalA small crew began disrupting Imperial supply lines, sparking noticeable resistance on the planet.
  51. c. 5 BBYThe Inquisitorius picks up the trail of the Lothal cellThe Empire sent a Jedi hunter against the local resistance, and the conflict grew beyond sabotage.
  52. c. 5 BBYRaid on the Imperial garrison at AldhaniA small group made off with an entire sector's Imperial payroll, and the regime responded by tightening its laws.
  53. c. 5 BBYUprising on FerrixDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  54. c. 5 BBYChewbacca's life debt to Han SoloA smuggler discharged from Imperial service runs into a Wookiee whom he saved from slavers and who now considers himself bound by a life debt. On Nar Shaddaa, the partners find work with a smuggler pilot and then enter the service of the Hutts Jabba and Jiliac.
  55. c. 4 BBYDeath of the Grand InquisitorDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  56. c. 4 BBYDuel between Ahsoka and Vader on MalachorDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  57. c. 4 BBYUnification of the cells above MustafarA joint rescue of a captured Jedi brought scattered resistance groups together into a single network.
  58. c. 4 BBYEscape from an Imperial prisonDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  59. c. 2 BBYMassacre on GhormanDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  60. c. 2 BBYMon Mothma's speech in the SenateFrom the floor of the Senate, the senator called the massacre a massacre, and after that she could never return to her former life.
  61. c. 2 BBYThrawn assigned to fight the rebelsThe Empire assigned the suppression of the rebellion to a fleet commander who studied his enemies through their own art.
  62. c. 2 BBYDeath of Maul on TatooineDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  63. c. 2 BBYUnification of the cells into the AllianceScattered resistance groups were brought together into a single alliance under a common command.
  64. c. 2 BBYCivil war on MandaloreClans that served the Empire clashed with those who chose resistance.
  65. c. 3 BBYDiscovery of an ancient Sith temple on MalachorDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  66. 3 BBYDeath of Shaak Ti on FeluciaVader's secret apprentice tracks down on Felucia a Togruta master who survived the extermination of the Jedi and was training local Force-sensitives. She sends her Padawan into hiding and gives battle near a sarlacc's nest, but loses, and before dying warns the victor that the Sith always betray one another.
  67. c. 3 BBYSearch for the Mindharp in the Rafa systemHaving won the droid Vuffi Raa at sabacc, the gambling entrepreneur sets out to claim a prize in the Rafa system, where he is arrested on a trumped-up charge. The governor and a sorcerer of Tund force him to search for the Mindharp, an ancient artifact of the vanished Sharu race, giving him a miniaturized Key.
  68. c. 1 BBYLiberation of LothalDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  69. c. 2 BBYGhorman MassacreImperial forces gunned down a peaceful demonstration, pushing senators toward an open break with the regime.
  70. c. 2 BBYDeclaration of RebellionA public indictment of the Emperor united scattered cells into the Alliance to Restore the Republic.
  71. 2 BBYCorellian Treaty and the Imperial trapOn Corellia, scattered groups opposed to the Empire sign a treaty establishing a unified military coalition. As soon as the document is declared ratified, Imperial troops seize the building: the meeting was a staged trap, and the “Jedi” accompanying the conspirators reveals himself as Vader's apprentice.
  72. c. 2 BBYHan Solo wins the Millennium FalconAt a sabacc tournament in Cloud City, the smuggler beats the former owner of a YT-1300 light freighter in the final game and wins the ship. He then begins modifying the vessel for smuggling and, with his partner, stops at Kashyyyk, where the partner is getting married.
  73. c. 1 BBYDestruction of AlderaanDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  74. c. 1 BBYLiberation of LothalDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  75. c. 1 BBYOperation on JedhaRebel intelligence obtained confirmation that the Empire was completing a planet-scale weapon.
  76. 1 BBYVirus outbreak on the prison barge PurgeBecause of an engine failure, an Imperial prison barge docks with an abandoned Star Destroyer, and a boarding party brings an unknown contagion aboard. Almost the entire crew and the prisoners die and turn into aggressive undead; only a handful of people survive, including two smuggler prisoners.
  77. c. 1 BBYDestruction of the holy city on JedhaDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  78. c. 1 BBYBattle of ScarifDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  79. c. 1 BBYDelivery of the plans to the AllianceDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
  80. c. 1 BBYInterception of the diplomatic shipThe Empire boarded a senator's ship in search of the plans transmitted to the rebels.
  81. c. 1 BBYRescue of Princess LeiaThe prisoner was taken off the battle station along with the data that made it possible to find its weakness.