3,000 BBY
(2543 BrS)
|
Freia
Kallea maps a new hyperspace route,
the Hydian Way, opening up the galaxy to allow for wider colonization.
This makes her famous and fundamentally changes the scale of galactic
civilization.
The
Essential Chronology.
The Jedi end what will be the last of the Alsakan Conflicts.
The New
Essential Chronology; Star
Wars
Encyclopedia.
After failing his
Jedi training, Saalo Morn turns to the dark side and flees to an
isolated primitive world where he conquers its native tribes. He hopes
to establish a new Sith Empire, but in the following decades he will
find no suitable apprentice before he dies and is entombed in a crypt.
The
Crypt of Saalo Morn,
Wizards.com.
Tapani sector trade lanes are
connected with the
Bith route known as the Monedes'mai Hypercanal, forming the modern
Rimma
Trade Route.
The
New Essential
Guide to Characters.
The Corellia StarDrive company is
bought by the
Corellian Engineering Corporation.
The
Essential
Guide
to Vehicles and
Vessels.
|
ca 2,992 BBY
(2935 BrS)
|
The
Paecian Empire begins to collapse.
The Courtship of
Princess Leia.
|
ca 2,000 BBY
(1943 BrS)
|
The
Republic's Draggulch period
begins, lasting for one thousand years. The era is marked by a drastic
decline in the Republic's political and economic power, which leads to
lawlessness around the galaxy. During the crisis, several Jedi serve as
Supreme Chancellor.
The New Essential
Chronology.
A rogue
Jedi called Darth Ruin
founds a new Sith Order, a cult of the Dark Side of the Force.
The Phantom Menace novel; Vader: The
Definitive Guide.
The New Sith Wars
begin. The
devastating wars are a series of conflicts that happen over the next
thousand years, pitting the Jedi against the new Sith.
Star Wars
Insider #80: "The History
of the
Mandalorians".
The Gen'Dai who will come to
be known as the bounty hunter Durge is born.
Starwars.com Databank.
Incom Industries, a major starship and
vehicle manufacturer, is founded on the planet Fresia.
The Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia.
The Cha'wen'he race is first
encountered by the
Republic.
Galaxy Guide 12:
Aliens – Enemies
and Allies, via Time Tales.
Settlers arrive on the planet
Hargeeva, located
in the Pelonat system.
Star Wars Adventure
Journal #8,
via Time Tales.
A humanoid race adopts the Bimm
culture and is
integrated into Bimm society.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
|
1,989 BBY
(1932 BrS)
|
Construction
begins on Foamwander City
on Mon Calamari.
Dark Apprentice,
via Time Tales.
|
1,466 BBY
(1409
BrS) |
The Battle of
Mizra. The Sith score a
major victory against the Jedi, ushering in a new dark age for the
Republic.
The New Essential
Chronology.
|
1,300 BBY
(1243 BrS)
|
The
mining conglomerate, Gammine Group
Inc, takes control of the Lan system to exploit its ore-rich planets.
Star Wars Adventure
Journal, via
Time Tales.
|
1,196 BBY
(1139 BrS)
|
During a
civil war on Hathrox III, a
biological weapon is unleashed, eventually wiping out the planet's
entire
population.
Planet of Twilight,
via Time Tales.
|
1,010 BBY
(953 BrS)
|
Dannik
Jerriko is born.
Star Wars
Encyclopedia.
|
ca 1,000 BBY
(943 BrS)
|
"Darkness
Shared"
(Star Wars Gamer #5 - Wizards
of the Coast - July 2001)
Six months before
The Battle of
Ruusan.
Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
(Del Rey Books -
Oct 2006)
Jedi vs. Sith
(#1-6 - Dark Horse Comics - April
2001)
The Sith turn against one another and nearly all are destroyed.
One of the few survivors include Sith Lord Kaan, who gathers his army
for a final conflict with the Jedi.
The Battle of Ruusan. Thousands of Jedi
die in a great battle on the planet Ruusan between two Jedi armies --
Lord
Hoth's Army of Light and Sith Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness. Kaan
refuses to surrender and creates a weapon using the spirits of the Dark
Jedi. The weapon kills the Jedi and Sith, but traps their spirits
within
the caverns later known as The Valley of the Jedi. They will remain
trapped
for over a thousand years before they are freed by Kyle Katarn. The
battle signals the end of the
millenium-long New Sith Wars.
Jedi Knight: Dark
Forces; The Essential Chronology; Star Wars Insider #80: "The
History of the Mandalorians".
Darth Bane: Rule of
Two (Opening
scenes only)
(Del Rey Books -
Dec 2007)
"Bane of the Sith"
(Star Wars Gamer #3
- Wizards
of the Coast - Apr 2001)
Darth
Bane, the single Sith survivor of the battle
at Ruusan reinvents the Sith order. He decides that there can be only
two
Sith at one time: a master and an apprentice. The Jedi Knights believe
the Sith are destroyed, but this new order secretly survives for the
next
millenium.
The Essential
Chronology; The
Phantom Menace novel.
The bounty hunter Durge,
who had worked for the Sith, goes into hiding, fearing Jedi reprisal.
Starwars.com
Databank.
The military tactic known as the Erasmus gambit
is first used.
Rebel Alliance
Sourcebook,
via Time Tales.
The GenoHaradan assassins'
guild establish the Tac-Spec Corporation to ease the sale of its
Footman droids.
The New Essential
Guide to Droids.
In the aftermath of
the New Sith Wars, Supreme Chancellor Tarsus Valorum inacts the Ruusan Reforms, giving more power to the Senate
and formalizing the Jedi Order's ties to the Republic government.
The New Essential
Chronology.
|
996 BBY
(939 BrS)
|
"All
For You"
(Star Wars Tales
#17 - Dark
Horse Comics - Sep 2003)
|
990 BBY
(933 BrS)
|
Darth Bane: Rule of Two (Ten years after opening scenes)
(Del Rey Books -
Dec 2007)
The
inhabitants of the planet Khomm begin
their long tradition of cloning.
Dark
Apprentice; The Essential Guide to Alien Species.
|
920 BBY
(863 BrS)
|
Aruk the
Hutt is born.
The Hutt Gambit,
via Time Tales.
|
ca 900 BBY
(843 BrS)
|
The
Quintad, an alliance of five powerful families, migrates from Corulag
to Eriadu. They help change the planet into a major industrial power.
Geonosis
and the Outer Rim Worlds.
|
896 BBY
(839 BrS)
|
Yoda,
future Jedi Master, is born.
A
Guide to the
Star Wars Universe.
|
800 BBY
(743 BrS)
|
Radell
Mining Corporation is founded
on Elrood.
Planets of the
Galaxy Vol. III,
via Time Tales.
|
796 BBY
(739 BrS)
|
Yoda is
granted the rank of Jedi Master.
The
New Essential
Guide to Characters.
|
750 BBY
(693 BrS)
|
The
species known as the Grissmaths establish
a prison colony on the planet Nam Chorios.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
|
ca 722 BBY
(665 BrS)
|
Coruscant's
worst industrial accident
occurs when a chemical explosion releases neuritic carbide gas into the
factory of Dacho, killing 300,000 trapped workers. Records of the
incident
were classified and sealed, though rumors will persist that the factory
was processing immigrant workers into chemical nutrients. The immense
factory
will remain a Dead Sector of Coruscant for centuries until Sith Lord
Darth
Sidious uses it as a secret rendezvous point.
Star
Wars
Insider #65: "Dark
Rendezvous".
|
700 BBY
(643 BrS)
|
"Heart
of Darkness"
(Star Wars Tales #16 - Dark
Horse Comics - June 2003)
Various military orders of the
Iotran nations
combine to form the Iotran Police Force (IPF).
Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens -- Enemies and Allies,
via The Completely Unofficial SW Encyclopedia.
|
687 BBY
(640 BrS)
|
The
"Death Seed" plague causes the deaths
of millions.
Planet
of
Twilight.
|
610 BBY
(563 BrS)
|
Dewlanna
is born on Kashyyyk.
The Paradise Snare,
via Time Tales.
|
605 BBY
(558 BrS)
|
The Dulok
oracle, Murgoob, is born on
the forest moon of Endor.
600 years before Ewoks.
|
600 BBY
(553 BrS)
|
A fallen
Jedi named Allya is exiled to
Dathomir, a world used as a Republic prison colony. She soon uses the
Force
to take control of the prisoners and tame the wild rancors. After
giving
birth to many daughters, Allya will teach them to use the Force, and a
female-dominated society eventually takes shape led by Force-using
"witches".
The
Essential Chronology.
Jabba
the Hutt is born on Nal Hutta.
The Essential Guide
to Characters.
The Kathol Sector is settled by the
Old Republic.
Star Wars
Encyclopedia.
|
509 BBY
(462 BrS)
|
Yaddle,
future Jedi Council member, is
born.
Episode I -
Insider's Guide.
|
500 BBY
(453 BrS)
|
Starship
building corporations Alderaan
Royal Engineers, Core Galaxy Systems and Rendili StarDrive are bought
out
by Kuat Drive Yards.
The
Essential Guide
to Vehicles and
Vessels.
The scientific vessel, the Prana
Lexander,
is lost along with it's owner, a respected philosopher.
Star Wars: The
Roleplaying Game,
via Time Tales.
The great Old Corellian tragedy "Uhl
Eharl
Khoehng" ("The Trickster King"), generally regarded as one
of
the greatest in all the galaxy is first written and performed.
Star Wars Adventure
Journal #8.
Archaeologists begin
an expedition on the ruined world Polis Massa, searching for signs of
the extinct Eellayin people, whom the archaeologists believe they are
descended from. The researchers' race study the world for so long, they
become known as Polis Massans.
StarWars.com
Databank.
|
496 BBY
(449 BrS)
|
The city
of Sodonna on the planet Teyr,
contructs its own spaceport.
Shield
of Lies.
|
495 BBY
(448 BrS)
|
Future
Jedi Master Ikrit is born on the
planet Kushiba.
Junior Jedi
Knights: Anakin's
Quest, via Time Tales.
|
490 BBY
(443 BrS)
|
The
Arkanians perform brain-enhancement
surgery on their simple-minded Yaka neighbors, increasing their
intelligence.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
The Corporate
Sector is formed,
encompassing dozens
of unexplored worlds.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
|
482 BBY
(435 BrS)
|
Ikrit
begins Jedi training as Yoda's
apprentice.
Junior Jedi
Knights: Anakin's
Quest, via Time Tales.
|
481 BBY
(434 BrS)
|
Ikrit
returns home to Kushiba, where
he saves his people from a xinkra.
Junior Jedi
Knights: Vader's
Fortress, via Time Tales.
|
470 BBY
(423 BrS) |
The
Corellian sector temporarily
withdraws from the Republic.
The New Essential
Chronology.
|
450 BBY
(403 BrS)
|
Ikrit
nearly kills a fellow Jedi with
his lightsaber over an argument. Guilty about what he has done, he
buries
his lightsaber and never uses it again.
Junior Jedi
Knights: Vader's
Fortress, via Time Tales.
|
437 BBY
(390 BrS)
|
390 BrS:3:18
An
Ithorian genetic experiment creates a parasitic
monster known as "Spore".
Galaxy of Fear:
Spore; Holonet News #52.
|
400 BBY
(353 BrS)
|
A
Hutt Jedi hopeful, Beldorion the Splendid travels to Nam Chorios and
discovers the planet's crystal energy enhances his Force powers. The
Hutt sets himself up as a local dictator.
The New Essential
Chronology; Planet
of Twilight.
An Ithorian genetic experiment
creates a parasitic
monster known as "Spore".
Galaxy of Fear:
Spore, via
Time Tales.
The
Barabel race begin their written history.
Geonosis
and the Outer Rim Worlds.
A vermigio mining colony is established on the
planet Karra. When none of the material is found, the colonists are
abandoned
there.
Star
Wars Adventure
Journal, via
Time Tales.
|
385 BBY
(348 BrS)
|
Jedi
Master Ikrit travels to Yavin 4
to research the Massassi people and discovers the Golden Globe, in
which
the spirits of Massassi children were trapped millennia ago by Exar
Kun.
He realizes he cannot break the curse and places himself in a Jedi
trance
to await someone who can free the spirits.
Junior Jedi
Knights: The Golden
Globe, via The Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia.
|
380 BBY
(343 BrS) |
Corellian
Jedi Keiran Halcyon stops the
Selonian sect known as the Afarathu.
I, Jedi, via
Time Tales.
|
350 BBY
(313 BrS)
|
The Trade
Federation is established.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
|
340 BBY
(303 BrS) |
Jedi ship Ch'unthor
crashes on
Dathomir.
Yoda and several Jedi are repelled
by the Witches
of Dathomir while attempting to recover the Ch'unthor.
The Courtship of
Princess Leia.
|
ca 300 BBY
(263 BrS)
|
The Tofs
visit the Nagai homeworld of
Nagi, at the height of its civilization. The Tofs conquer and enslave
the
Nagai, forcing many to flee into the galaxy. They will spend the next
three
centuries searching for a new homeworld.
Star Wars Gamer
#1; Marvel Star Wars.
Karia
Ver Seryan, a "life witch", is
born on Kerlsil.
Ambush on Corellia; Star
Wars Encyclopedia.
Shistavanen explorers discover the
planet Shaum
Hii and the race known as the Kian'thar.
Galaxy Guide 12:
Aliens – Enemies
and Allies, via Time Tales.
The Ho'Din exploit their homeworld,
Moltok, for
industrial purposes and nearly destroy themselves.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
The Bith destroy their planetary
environment in
a civil war. They later change their culture, repressing emotions to
prevent
further wars.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
The starship Lumrunner is
constructed.
Star Wars Adventure
Journal #9,
via Time Tales.
|
292 BBY
(255 BrS)
|
Mother
Rell is born on Dathomir.
The Courtship of
Princess Leia,
via Time Tales.
Myrkr is discovered by the Republic.
Heir to the Empire.
|
282 BBY
(245 BrS)
|
Tens
of thousands of Houk colonists from Lijuter settle in the Lesser Cueva
region of the planet Ryloth.
Geonosis and the Outer Rim
Worlds.
|
281 BBY
(244 BrS)
|
The Grand
Rim Promenade is constructed
on the planet Cejansij.
Spectre of the
Past, via
Time Tales.
|
280 BBY
(243 BrS)
|
Berethron
e Solo introduces democracy
to the Corellian Empire.
The
Courtship of
Princess Leia.
The Ho'Din develop organic medicines
to cure themselves
of the parasitic organisms plagueing their species.
The
Essential Guide
to Alien Species.
|
269 BBY
(234 BrS)
|
Merumeru,
the Wookiee, is born on Kashyyyk.
Starwars.com Databank.
|
250 BBY
(215 BrS)
|
Adarlon
is the first planet settled in
the Minos Cluster.
Galaxy Guide 6:
Tramp Freighters,
via Time Tales.
|
245 BBY
(210 BrS)
|
Yaddle's
Tale: The One Below
- Flashback scenes
(Star Wars Tales #5 - Dark
Horse Comics - Sept 2000)
200 years before
Yaddle joins the
Jedi Council.
|
241 BBY
(206 BrS)
|
Future
Republic Senator Ralrracheen is
born on Kashyyyk.
The Thrawn
Trilogy Sourcebook,
via Time Tales.
|
207 BBY
(172 BrS)
|
Quagga,
the Wookiee, is born on Kashyyyk.
Star Wars:
Demolition website.
|
206 BBY
(171 BrS)
|
Future
Jedi Master Oppo Rancisis is born
on Thisspias.
The
New Essential
Guide to Characters.
|
201 BBY
(166 BrS)
|
The
Wookiee Salporin is born on Kashyyyk.
The Thrawn
Trilogy Sourcebook,
via Time Tales.
|
