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40 BBY — 9 ABY

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c. 32 BBYBlockade of NabooThe Trade Federation cut off access to Naboo, forcing the Republic to seek a political solution.
c. 32 BBYBattle of NabooThe joint efforts of the planet's defenders break the blockade and end the crisis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
c. 21 BBYSecond Battle of GeonosisThe Republic returned to the planet to destroy the factories supplying the Separatist armies with droids.
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 BBYProclamation of the Galactic EmpireDescription 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 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 BBYSaving the clones from the orderDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
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.
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.