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40 BBY9 ABY

c. 18 BBYHunt for the surviving Jedic. 5 ABYTraining of a new generation of Jedi

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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 BBYAnakin is discovered on TatooineOn Tatooine, a boy named Anakin Skywalker is discovered and his abilities draw attention.
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 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.
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.
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.
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. 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 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 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 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 BBYDuel on MustafarDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
c. 19 BBYYoda goes into exileDescription 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 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 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.
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.
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.
c. 3 BBYDiscovery of an ancient Sith temple on MalachorDescription hidden: this entry reveals the plot.
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.
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.
c. 0 ABYSkirmish on Shelkonwa and the execution of Governor ChoardShelsha sector governor Barshnis Choard and his administrator Vilim Disra were preparing to take the sector out of the Empire with the help of pirates. Leia Organa, who had come for negotiations, was betrayed by Disra, and the Executor arrived at the capital, Makrin City, with the 501st Legion. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo got Leia out, and Mara Jade and the Hand of Judgment squad eliminated the traitor Choard.
c. 2 ABYSearch for the Kaiburr crystal on MimbanLuke Skywalker and Leia Organa crash-landed on the swampy planet Mimban, also known as Circarpous V. There, the old seeker Halla showed them a shard of the Kaiburr crystal and a map to the Temple of Pomojema. The crystal, which amplified the abilities of a Force-sensitive near the temple, became the goal of a joint expedition.
c. 3 ABYTraining on DagobahA surviving master took on a student on the swamp world where he had been hiding since the destruction of the Order.
c. 5 ABYTraining of a new generation of JediThe only surviving knight began passing on the teachings, starting the rebuilding of the Order.