32 BBY

"Incident at Horn Station"
(Star Wars Tales #2 - Dark Horse Comics - Jan 2000)
Shortly before Episode I. Brian Crewe's Ultimate Star Wars Timeline.
 
 
Cloak of Deception
(Del Rey Books - June 2001)
 
 
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
(Del Rey Books - Feb 2001)
 
 
Episode I Adventures
-----
The Ghostling Children
-----The Hunt for Anakin Skywalker
-----Capture Arawynne
-----Trouble on Tatooine
(Scholastic Books - Jan-Apr 2000)
Shortly before Episode I, but after Ki-Adi-Mundi joins the Council.
 
 
Obi-Wan
(LucasArts video game - Dec 2001)
 
 
The Queen's Amulet
(Chronicle Books - May 1999)
 
 
"Shadows of Coruscant"
(Star Wars: Roleplaying Game - Wizards of the Coast - Nov 2000)
 
 
Anakin's Fate
(Random House "Young Reader" Book - May 1999)
 
 
3:3
"Single Cell"
(Star Wars Tales #7 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2001)
Six weeks before Episode I.
 
 
The Trade Federation, goaded by Sith Lord Darth Sidious, initiates a blockade of Naboo to protest the taxation of trade routes.
1 month before Episode I. Star Wars Insider's "Holonet News"; Episode I Visual Dictionary.
 
 
"Signal Interruption"
(Roleplaying game adventure - Wizards of the Coast - Aug 2001)
 
 
3:4
Episode I: Anakin Skywalker
(Dark Horse Comics "one-shot" - May 1999)
Shortly before Episode I, and partially during the novelization.
 
 
3:4:14
STAR WARS - EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE
(20th Century Fox - May 1999)
 
-----The Battle of Naboo
-----Qui-Gon Jinn is killed by Darth Maul
-----Palpatine is elected Chancellor of the Republic Senate
 
 
Starfighter - Before and during Episode I
(LucasArts video game - Feb 2001)
 
Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi - During Episode I
Episode I: Qui-Gon Jinn
Episode I: Queen Amidala
(Dark Horse Comics "one-shots" - May 1999)
 
Episode I Adventures - During Episode I
-----
Danger on Naboo
-----Podrace to Freedom
(Scholastic Books - Sept-Oct 2000)
 
"End Game" - During Episode I
(Short story in new Episode I noveization - Del Rey Books - Jan 2012)
 
OOM-9 and the Subjugation of Naboo - During Episode I
(Galactic Battlegrounds - LucasArts computer game - Nov 2001)
Some time shortly before Episode I.
 
Podracing Tales - Parts 1-8 - During Episode I
(Dark Horse Comics / StarWars.com - Dec 2000-Feb 2001)
 
Anakin to the Rescue - During Episode I
(Random House "Young Reader" Book - May 1999)
 
Battle for Naboo - During Episode I
(LucasArts video game - 2001)
 
Invasion of Theed - During Episode I
(RPG adventure - Wizards of the Coast - Nov 2000)
 
Battle in the Streets - During Episode I
(RPG supplement - Wizards.com - Nov 2000)
 
Peril on Naboo - During Episode I 
(RPG adventure - Wizards of the Coast - Feb 2001) 
 
Boss Nass and the Battle for Independence on Naboo - During Episode I
(Galactic Battlegrounds - LucasArts computer game - Nov 2001)
 
Darth Maul's Revenge - During Episode I
(Random House "Jedi Readers" Book - Nov 2000)
-
Episode I Adventures - During Episode I
-----The Final Battle
(Scholastic Books - Nov 2000)
 
Episode I Journal - During Episode I
-----Anakin Skywalker
-----Queen Amidala
-----Darth Maul
(Scholastic Books - June 1999, Mar 2000)
 
 
3:5
 
The Gungan Frontier
(LucasArts computer game - 1999)
Shortly after Episode I.
 
 
Jedi Master Count Dooku leaves the Jedi order and disappears for several years.
HolonetNews.com article. Ten years before Episode II.
 
 
"Force Fiction"
(Star Wars Tales #7 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2001)
 
 
"The Outlander"
(Star Wars #7-12 - Dark Horse Comics - June-November 1999)
 
 
Akanah Pell is born to the Fallanassi.
Before the Storm, via Chris McElroy's Time Tales.
 
 
Prince Denid is born to the royal family of Velmor.
Velmor: Royalty and Rebellion at Wizards.com.
 
 
A group of aliens known only as the "Far Outsiders" arrive at the planet Zonama Sekot and attempt to learn everything about the living technology of the people there, which is similar to their own technology.
Rogue Planet. These aliens are later revealed to be the Yuuzhan Vong from The New Jedi Order novels.
 
 
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
(LucasArts video game - 2002)
 
 
Jango Fett: Open Seasons - Frame story
(#1-4 - Dark Horse Comics - May-Aug 2002)
 
 
The Sullustan Council amends the planet's constitution to give shareholders of the SoroSuub corporation the same voting rights as Sullust's citizens.
HolonetNews.com article, "Sullustans Elect President".
 
 
"Peril in the Ionosphere"
(Star Wars Gamer #1 - Wizards of the Coast - Dec 2000)
 
 
3:10
"Nomad"
(Star Wars Tales #21-24 - Dark Horse Comics - Jan-June 2005)
Six months after Episode I.
 
 
Atresh Pikil is born. She will later become a Jedi apprentice.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.
 
 
 

31 BBY

Boba Fett is born, cloned from the DNA of his "father", Jango Fett. The cloned child is given to Jango by the Kaminoans as payment for using him as the template for their clone army.
Episode I Visual Dictionary; Leland Chee's Starwars.com blog.
 
 
"Emissaries to Malastare"
(Star Wars #13-18 - Dark Horse Comics - Dec 1999-May 2000)
 
 
"Deal With a Demon"
(Star Wars Tales #3 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar 2000)
 
 
"Twilight"
(Star Wars #19-22 - Dark Horse Comics - June-Aug 2000)
 
 
Bounty Hunters: Aurra Sing
(Dark Horse Comics - July 1999)
 
 
"Infinity's End"
(Star Wars #23-26 - Dark Horse Comics - Sep-Dec 2000)
 
 
With the taxation laws that led to the Battle of Naboo repealed, and the badly needed income lost, the Galactic Republic slips into economic depression.
Rogue Planet, via Time Tales.
 
 
Commander Wilhuf Tarkin is hired by an unknown person to carefully watch over the Jedi on Coruscant – and “discourage” any increase in their numbers or power.
Rogue Planet, via Time Tales.
 
 
The people of Zonama Sekot realize the Far Outsiders have come to take control of their planet, and begin building up their defenses. Their refusal to comply angers the Far Outsiders.
Rogue Planet.
 
 
"Star Crash"
(Star Wars #27 - Dark Horse Comics - Feb 2001)
 
 
Silya Shessaun is elected to the Galactic Senate, representing her home planet of Thesme. 
At age twenty. Starwars.com Databank.
 
 
Lando Calrissian is born.
From the suggestion that he is "a couple of years" older than Han Solo in The Hutt Gambit; confirmed by The New Essential Guide to Characters.
 
 
Pax Chizzik is born. He will later become a Jedi apprentice.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous.
 
 
 

30 BBY

"The Hunt for Aurra Sing"
(Star Wars #28-31 - Dark Horse Comics - March-June 2001)
 
 
A Republic exploratory expedition to the planet Dagobah is lost. The records of the expedition are eventually recovered after the New Republic is established.
The Illustrated Star Wars Universe; Rich Handley's newsgroup-posted chronology.
 
 
5:3:13
Chancellor Palpatine's political text, Paths to Power, tops the bestseller lists.
"Holonet News", Star Wars Insider.
 
 
"Heart of Fire"
(Dark Horse Extra #35-37 - Dark Horse Comics - May-July 2001)
 
 
Mace Windu sends the Jedi Knight Vergere on a scouting mission to the planet Zonama Sekot.

After her arrival, Vergere attempts to help the Sekotans negotiate peace with the Far Outsiders. The Outsiders refuse and, in an ensuing battle, gouge scars into the very surface of the planet. The Sekotans defend themselves, repelling the Outsiders. Vergere leaves with them
.
Rogue Planet.
 
 
"Darkness"
(Star Wars #32-35 - Dark Horse Comics - July-Oct 2001)
 
 
Syal Antilles is born, daughter of Jagged and Zena.
X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Masquerade #4. Ten years older than Wedge.
 
 
The philosophy of the Tyia -- another way of knowing the Force -- is brought to the planet Revyia.
Galaxy Guide 12, via The Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia.
 
 
"The Stark Hyperspace War" - Frame story
(Star Wars #36-39 - Dark Horse Comics - Nov 2001-Feb 2002)
 
 
 

29 BBY

Han Solo is born on Corellia.
A Guide to the Star Wars Universe.
 
 
"The Devaronian Version"
(Star Wars #40-41 - Dark Horse Comics - Mar-Apr 2002)
 
 
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, after three years of legal wrangling in the Senate, finally forces the disarmament of the Trade Federation. Over the next few months, the Federation’s weapons, droid starfighters, and battleships are turned over to Republic security forces.
Rogue Planet, via Time Tales.
 
 
Jedi Apprentice: Special Edition - Deceptions - Obi-Wan and Anakin scenes
(Scholastic Books - July 2001)

 
Rogue Planet
(Del Rey Books - May 2000)
 
 
Jedi Apprentice: Special Edition - The Followers  - Obi-Wan and Anakin scenes
(Scholastic - Mar 2002)
 
 
"Rite of Passage"
(Star Wars #42-45 - Dark Horse Comics - May-Aug 2002)
 
 
Bria Tharen is born.
Rebel Dawn.
 
 
Covell (future Imperial captain) is born on Corulag.

Future smuggler, Par'tah is born on Moltok.
The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook, via Time Tales.
 
 
Putten Beatus is born. She will later become the Customs Inspector of Mos Eisley.
Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley, via Time Tales.