Moff Wilhuff Tarkin marries a wealthy woman of the Motti family on Phelarion. The marriage is only for the sake of Tarkin's political career.

The New Essential Guide to Characters.



Droids - The Kalarba Adventures
(Droids #1-6 - Dark Horse Comics - Apr.-Sept. 1994)

Droids - Rebellion
----------Season of Revolt
(Droids #1-8 - Dark Horse Comics - Apr.-Dec. 1995)

The Essential Guide to Characters. Note the Droids cartoon series is now set 15 BBY.



"Nerf Herder"
(Star Wars Tales #7 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2001)

The Ultimate Star Wars Timeline, based on a "Droids" reference in the story.



Luke Skywalker suffers from a case of  Tatooine dust fever.

Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice, via Time Tales.



The Imperial fleet finally stops the Lortan, the race responsible for the death of millions, an atrocity now known as the Reslian Purge.

The Empire discovers the planet Maridun, home of the Amanin.

Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens – Enemies and Allies, via Time Tales.
   


Gavin Darklighter is born on Tatooine.

X-Wing: Rogue Squadron.



The Empire builds a swoop racing arena to entertain the populace on Travnin. Corrupt officials use substandard materials, causing it to collapse during its opening ceremonies.

Galaxy Guide 6: Tramp Freighters, via Time Tales.



Daala, a woman angry with the Empire's oppressive attitudes toward women, creates a computer network alias, using it to transmit her tactical ideas to the Imperial Fleet. She attracts the attention of Moff Tarkin, who assigns her to his personal staff.

Jedi Academy Sourcebook, via Time Tales.



The Han Solo Trilogy - The Paradise Snare
(Bantam Spectra Books - July 1997)

Bantam Books timeline.



25:9

Han Solo enters the Imperial Academy.

The Paradise Snare. Academy years starting in month nine established in "Planet Hoppers: Carida" at Wizards of the Coast web site.


On Corellia, Soontir Fel gets into a fight with the son of one of the managers from the company that Fel's family works for. Fel is forced by the company to drop the charges and enter the Imperial Academy, or his family will be ruined.

X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Making of Baron Fel and Masquerade. Assuming Fel was in Han's class, since they knew each other at the Academy.
 

Battlefront II (LucasArts video game - 2005)
-----Kamino - Changing of the Guard



Droids: The Protocol Offensive
(Dark Horse Comics - Sept. 1997)




"The Princess Leia Diaries" - Pages 1-3
(Star Wars Tales #11 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2002)



"Sandstorm"
(Star Wars Tales #15 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2003)

Dash Rendar enters the Imperial Academy.

Star Wars Encyclopedia. One year behind Han Solo.


  
The Corellian Engineering Corporation manufactures its Hawk series of transports which includes Kyle Katarn's future ship, The Moldy Crow.

Wizards.com. Ten years after Episode III.



A huge earthquake destroys much of the Chadra-Fan civilization.

Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races.
 

"The Princess Leia Diaries" - Pages 4-7
(Star Wars Tales #11 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2002)



Kyp Durron is born on the Deyer Colony in the Anoat System.

The Essential Guide to Characters and Jedi Search.



Wrenga Jixton (aka "Jix") is court-martialed and sent to the spice mines of Kessel. He later escapes to Aridus.

Shadow Stalker, via Time Tales.



Belindi Kalenda is born.

The Corellian Trilogy (Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia, Showdown at Centerpoint).



Starship manufacturer Gallofree Yards, Inc. goes bankrupt.

The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, via Time Tales.



A city on the planet Falleen is totally wiped out by the Empire after a biological weapon escapes quarantine from a laboratory established by Darth Vader. Two hundred thousand Falleen are killed in the "sterilization," which saves the rest of the planet's populace.

Shadows of the Empire.



Loka Hask is expelled from the Imperial Military Academy on Carida. He returns to his homeworld in time to witness the public execution of his estranged father, a well-known criminal.

Star Wars Handbook: X-Wing Rogue Squadron. 3 years before the death of Wedge's parents.

Luke Skywalker's Walkabout (Dark Horse Comics Presents, Jr. - Aug. 1999)

When Luke was 13. Only "Walkabout" gives a specific date, but both stories are variations on the same plot. That plot was actually suggested by Brian Daley's Star Wars NPR radio drama. Oddly, Luke's friend Windy is a boy in one story and a girl in the other.



"The Princess Leia Diaries" - Page 8
(Star Wars Tales #11 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2002)



Han Solo graduates from the Imperial Military Academy on Carida.

Four years after his entrance.
 

A smuggling ship under the command of Captain Hoffner stumbles upon the lost Katana fleet of dreadnaught starships. Talon Karrde is a member of the ship's crew.

Dark Force Rising, via Time Tales.
 
 

Human replica droid Guri is constructed by Simonelle the Ingoian.

Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook, via Time Tales.



Loka Hask -- now a pirate captain -- acquires the Buzzzer, a picket ship once owned by the infamous pirate Crimson Jack.

Star Wars Handbook: X-Wing Rogue Squadron.

"Breaking a Custom"

(Chewbacca #2 - Dark Horse Comics - Feb 2000)

After Han's graduation, but before he saves Chewbacca.



Imperial officer Han Solo saves the Wookiee slave Chewbacca from death at the hands of Imperial Commander Nyklas on Coruscant. Soon afterward Solo is discharged from the Imperial Navy.

Months before The Hutt Gambit.



The Han Solo Trilogy - The Hutt Gambit- Chapter 1 to page 99
(Bantam Spectra Books - Oct. 1997)

Routine
(Star Wars Tales #2 - Dark Horse Comics - Jan. 2000)

The Han Solo Trilogy - The Hutt Gambit - Page 99 to page 116
(Bantam Spectra Books - Oct. 1997)

Bantam books timeline and The Ultimate Star Wars Timeline.



A Mon Calamari slave named Ackbar becomes Moff Tarkin's personal aide.

The New Essential Guide to Characters.



Gideon Tarkin dies in the Erhynradd Mutiny. His daughter Rivoche is taken in by his brother, Moff Wilhuff Tarkin.

The New Essential Guide to Characters.



Rayf Ysanna is born on Ossus.

Dark Empire II.



Stanton Rendar is killed when his freighter crashes into the Emperor's private wing of the Imperial Museum. His family's holdings are taken by the Emperor and Stanton's brother, Dash, is expelled from the Imperial Academy on Carida.

Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook, via Time Tales.



A rebel uprising on the Devaronian system results in a massacre in the holy city of Montellian Serat.

The Hutt Gambit.



Prince Kalen, the brother of Prince Isolder of Hapes is killed by the pirate Harravan. Isolder goes undercover and searches for the pirate.

The Courtship of Princess Leia, via Time Tales.



Tinian I'att buys the Wookiee, Wrrl, to stop his death at the hands of his slavers.

"To Fight Another Day", via Time Tales.

The Han Solo Trilogy - The Hutt Gambit - Chapter 5 to page 167
(Bantam Spectra Books - Oct. 1997)

Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
(Del Rey Books - July 1983)

The Han Solo Trilogy - The Hutt Gambit - Page 168 to page 209
(Bantam Spectra Books - Oct. 1997)

The Hutt Gambit, a top secret source and Dan Wallace.



"The Princess Leia Diaries" - Page 9
(Star Wars Tales #11 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2002)



"Weapons Master" - Flashback scenes only
(Star Wars - Marvel UK Illustrated Book #1 - Nov. 1981)



"Passages"
(Star Wars Adventure Journal #7 - West End Games - Aug 1995)

Rich Handley's newsgroup-posted chronology.



"The Last Hand"
(Star Wars Adventure Journal #13 - West End Games- May 1997)

The Ultimate Star Wars Timeline.



Han Solo and Chewbacca free slaves from a Zygerrian slave ship near Janodral Mizar. Solo gives the ship and its cargo to the newly-freed slaves.

Heir to the Empire; Heir to the Empire Sourcebook.



Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Bantam Spectra Books - Aug. 1995)
-----A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale - Page 19 to 27



General Zakar is put in charge of Imperial military operations on Garos IV.

Star Wars Adventure Journal, via Time Tales.



The planet Mon Calamari is placed under martial law by the Empire, its’ people conscripted into slave labor.

Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races, via Time Tales.

31:9

Shira Brie becomes an Imperial cadet, studying to become a TIE fighter pilot.

"Planet Hoppers: Carida" at the Wizards of the Coast web site. Four years after enrollment. Establishes Academy years starting in month nine.


Kyle Katarn enters the Imperial Academy on Carida.

Four years before his graduation, seen in Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire.



In outer Gus Treta in the Corellian Sector, Jagged and Zena Antilles are killed at their fueling depot on the Corellian Inner-System Market Station after pirate captain Loka Hask ignites part of the station in an attempt to escape from the Corellian Security Force. Jagged and Zena are survived by their son, Wedge, and daughter, Syal.

Just after the incident, Wedge tracks down Hask's ship, the Buzzzer and destroys it. Captain Hask escapes.

X-Wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair #2; Star Wars Handbook: X-Wing Rogue Squadron. Wedge was 17 years old.

"Falling Star"
(Star Wars Tales #15 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2003)



The planet Narg in the Rayter sector is discovered by the Empire.

The Abduction of Crying Dawn Singer, via The Completely Unofficial SW Encyclopedia.



The Maw Installation is built.

Jedi Search.



Prince Isolder finds and catches Harravan.  The pirate is murdered in a Hapan prison before he can name his accomplices in the murder of Isolder's brother.

The Courtship of Princess Leia,via Time Tales.



The Han Solo Trilogy - The Hutt Gambit -Page 210 to end
(Bantam Spectra Books - Oct. 1997)

Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon
(Del Rey Books - Sept. 1983)

Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka
(Del Rey Books - Dec. 1983)

The Hutt Gambit, a top secret source and Dan Wallace.

  

The Han Solo Trilogy - Rebel Dawn - Chapter 1 to Chapter 6
(Bantam Spectra Books - Mar. 1998)
-----Han Solo wins the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian

Six months before Han Solo at Star's End, according to Dan Wallace.



Han Solo leaves Imperial space for the Corporate Sector.

Rebel Dawn.

 

Saelt-Marae joins Jabba the Hutt’s entourage.

Special Edition Sourcebook, via Time Tales.



Shada D’ukal joins the Mistryl Shadow Guards of Emberlene.

Specter of the Past.



The Ssi-ruuk reach the edge of known space.

Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, via Time Tales.

The Corellian Treaty is signed by resistance groups from planets Corellia, Chandrila and Alderaan. The treaty soldifies the Rebel Alliance, making Mon Mothma the Alliance's strategic commander.

Rebel Dawn.

X-Wing (LucasArts computer game - 1992)

-----Tour of Duty I: A New Ally

After the Corellian Treaty, before Han Solo at Stars' End.

Han Solo at Stars' End
(Del Rey Books - Oct. 1979)

The Han Solo Trilogy - Rebel Dawn - Chapter 7
(Bantam Spectra Books - Mar. 1998)

"Way of the Wookiee"
(Star Wars - Marvel UK Illustrated Book #1 - Nov. 1981)

"This Crumb for Hire"
(A Decade of Dark Horse #2 - Aug. 1996)

Jabba's Rancor:
- Part 1: Grizzid's Last Flight
- Part 2: The Birthday Present
(Miniatures game scenario - Wizards.com - Mar 2006)

Han Solo's Revenge
(Del Rey Books - Dec. 1979)

The Han Solo Trilogy - Rebel Dawn - Chapter 8
(Bantam Spectra Books - Mar. 1998)

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
(Del Rey Books - Sept. 1980)

The Hutt Gambit, Dark Horse comics timeline, a top secret source and Dan Wallace.



Lumpawarrump is born to Mallatobuck, wife of Chewbacca, on the Wookiee homeworld, Kashyyyk.

Rebel Dawn. Around the time of Han Solo and the Lost Legacy.



X-Wing (LucasArts computer game - 1992)
-----Tour of Duty II: The Great Search - missions 1-3



"Lucky" - Without frame story
(Star Wars Tales #23 - Dark Horse Comics - Apr 2005)



"No Disintegrations, Please" - Without frame story
(Star Wars Adventure Journal #14 - West End Games - Aug 1997)

The Ultimate Star Wars Timeline.



Boba Fett: Salvage
(Boba Fett #1/2 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar. 1998)

Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire
(Dark Horse Comics - Jan.-Apr. 1999)

Dark Horse Comics' timeline places Enemy... at 3-0 BBY. It fits well here, after Fett's appearances in The Hutt Gambit and Rebel Dawn.



Corellian smuggler Booster Terrik is arrested by Corellian Security Force officer Hal Horn. Terrik is sentenced to five years imprisonment on Kessel.

X-Wing: The Bacta War. Booster Terrik spent five years on Kessel before The Empire Strikes Back. He was arrested after Wedge's parents were killed, since he appears in the flashback scenes of The Phantom Affair.



"Rebel Bass"
(Star Wars Gamer #6 - Wizards of the Coast)



"First Impressions"
(Star Wars Tales #15 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2003)



Irek Ismaren is born to Roganda Ismaren and Sarcev Quest.

The Essential Guide to Characters. Sarcev Quest implied in "The Emperor's Pawns" from Star Wars Gamer #5.



Anja Gallandro is born on Anobis.

Young Jedi Knights: Return to Ord Mantell, via Time Tales.



Gabby, future New Republic pilot, is born.

Before the Storm, via Time Tales.



Ederlatth Pallopides, a remote grandniece of Emperor Palpatine, is born.

Dark Empire Sourcebook, via Chris McElroy's Time Tales.



Corran Horn enters the Corellian Security Force Academy.

X-Wing: Rogue Squadron.



"A Death Star Is Born"
(Star Wars Tales #4 - Dark Horse Comics - July 2000)



Luke Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter witness the death of a bantha that has lost its Tusken rider.

The Essential Guide to Alien Species.



"The Lost City of Tatooine"
(Dig Archaeology - July 1999)

The Ultimate Star Wars Timeline.



"Darklighter" - Part 1, Pages 1-7
(Star Wars: Empire #8 - Apr 2003)



"Crucible" - without frame story
(Marvel Comics Series #17 - Nov 1978)

Rich Handley's Exhaustive Guide to Star Wars Comics website.



Biggs Darklighter enrolls in the Academy.

Just after "Crucible".



"Darklighter" - Part 1, Pages 8-9
(Star Wars: Empire #8 - Apr 2003)

 

"The Princess Leia Diaries" - Pages 10-12
(Star Wars Tales #11 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2002)

X-Wing (LucasArts computer game - 1992)
-----Tour of Duty II: The Great Search - mission 4



Jorj Car'das leaves for parts unknown in his ship, and is not heard from for twenty years. Car'das' departure leaves his smuggling organization in chaos. This allows Talon Karrde to take over and stabilize the organization.

Vision of the Future.



Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand #0
(Dark Horse Comics / StarWars.com - July 1998)

Shortly before A New Hope.



Ackbar is rescued from Imperial slavery by Rebel agents.

Darksaber. After the Death Star was completed.



Iella Wessiri joins the Corellian Security Force.

X-Wing: The Krytos Trap.



Gaeriel Captison is elected a senator on Bakura.

Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, via Time Tales.



Ssi-Ruuvi invaders attack G'rho. They kidnap and brainwash young Dev Sibwarra.

Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, via Time Tales.



The Adventures of Dannen Lifehold
-----"Breaking Free"
-------(Star Wars Adventure Journal #1 - West End Games - Feb 1994)
-----"Changing the Odds"
-------(Star Wars Adventure Journal #3 - West End Games - Aug 1994)

"Ringers"
(Star Wars Adventure Journal #6 - West End Games - May 1994)

Rich Handley's newsgroup-posted chronology.



Dark Forces: Rebel Agent - Chapter 1
(Dark Horse Comics / Boulevard Books - 1998)

A few months before Morgan Katarn's murder in Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire.



Lando Calrissian and Niles Ferrier are involved in a smuggling run to the planet Phraetiss that goes terribly wrong.

Dark Force Rising, via Time Tales.
   


Mako Spince has a confrontation with NaQoit bandits in the Ottega system. Spince is left crippled and returns to Nar Shaddaa to recover.

Rebel Dawn.



The Han Solo Trilogy - Rebel Dawn - Chapter 9 to Chapter 11
(Bantam Spectra Books - Mar. 1998)

Rebel Dawn and Daniel Wallace.
   


Darth Vader: Extinction
(Star Wars Tales #1-2 - Dark Horse Comics - Nov. 1999-Jan. 2000)

Some time after Vader meets Mara Jade. Probably before he learns Obi-Wan survived the death of the Jedi.
   


34:9

Korriban: Planet of Lost Souls
(RPG supplement - Wizards.com - Apr 2003)

Six months before A New Hope.



"Darklighter" - Part 1, Pages 10-16
(Star Wars: Empire #8 - Apr 2003)



Battlefront II (LucasArts video game - 2005)
-----Death Star - Prison Break