
			   MAJOR EVENTS IN THE HISTORY
			     OF  THE STAR WARS SAGA
		      By Robert C. Knight,  Star Wars Historian

BSD:  years before the Imperial Senate is dissolved (Star Wars IV: A New Hope)
ASD:  years after the Imperial Senate is dissolved, before the Battle of Endor
ABE:  years after the Battle of Endor (Star Wars VI: Return Of The Jedi)

IMPORTANT NOTE:  These are the events as of Star Wars: Champions of the Force,
book III of Kevin J. Anderson's trilogy (Bantam Spectra, September 1994)

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25,000 + BSD
	Pre-hyperdrive era.  First attempts to establish trade and diplomacy 
	between the various cultures of the galaxy.  Earliest records of 
	Alderaan's explorations.

c. 25,000 BSD
	Beginnings of Old Republic.  Order of Jedi Knights begins (presumably 
	on Ossus, in the Adega system).

25,000-4,000 BSD
	Expansion under Old Republic.  Somewhere in this period Xim the Despot
	conquers much territory before being defeated by Old Republic forces.  
	The Sith will also appear before either being destroyed or vanishing.

c. 4,000 BSD
	Ulic Qel-Droma becomes a Jedi under Master Arca.  Nomi Sunrider begins
	the Jedi training meant for her murdered husband.  Exar Kun becomes a 
	Jedi under Master Vodo-Siosk Baas on Dantooine.  Qel-Droma turns to 
	the Dark Side after confronting the Krath.  Exar Kun discovers the 
	Sith records on Yavin Four.  Kun becomes the first Dark Lord of the 
	Sith.  The Great Sith War begins.  Qel-Droma allies with Kun, then 
	betrays him.  Nomi Sunrider also plays a pivotal  role in the  war.  
	Kun enslaves the Massassi natives of Yavin Four.  The Great Temple is 
	built (later used by the Rebels in the Battle of Yavin) is built.  
	The Old Republic attacks Yavin Four.  Exar Kun absorbs the life force 
	of the Massassi and traps his essence within the temples.  End of the 
	Great Sith War.  Kun lies in wait for the next four thousand years.

c. 900 BSD
	Yoda is born, location unknown.

c. 400 BSD
	Jedi Academy ship Ch'unthor crashes on Dathomir.  Yoda leads several 
	Jedi to recover the downed school, but is repulsed by the Witches of 
	Dathomir.

200 BSD
	Chewbacca is born on Kashyyyk.

132 BSD
	Jorus C'Baoth is born on Bortras.

112 BSD
	C-3PO is activated at Cybot Galactica Corporation.

c. 80-70 BSD
	Palpatine is born, location unknown.

60 BSD
	Obi-Wan Kenobi is born, location unknown (possibly Alderaan).

c. 60-30 BSD
	Somewhere in this period, Palpatine begins studying the Dark Side of 
	the Force.

55 BSD
	Anakin Skywalker is born.

48 BSD
	Mon Mothma is born.

c. 35 BSD
	Jorus C'Baoth wins sanctioning of the Outbound Flight Project.  He 
	and five other Jedi Masters launch from Yaga Minor.  They are 
	destroyed by Thrawn's task force under orders from Palpatine.  Clone 
	of C'Baoth created either before the launch or after  the attack.  The
	Clone Wars begin.  Obi-Wan Kenobi serves under Bail Organa of 
	Alderaan.  Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker become friends.  Dark Jedi 
	insurrection in Bpfassh system.  One of the Dark Jedi flees to 
	Dagobah.  He is pursued and stopped by Yoda.  Clonemasters defeated 
	by Old Republic and Jedi Knights.  Somewhere during the Clone Wars 
	will be the battle above Honoghr, home of the Noghri.  End of Clone 
	Wars.  

29 BSD
	Han Solo born (either on Corellia or elsewhere in the Corellian 
	system).

35-18 BSD
	Fall of the Republic.  Corruption, prejudice, and abuse of power 
	throughout the galaxy.  Palpatine, long an unassuming senator, begins 
	his rise to power through a combination of promises and alliances.  
	Senators Mon Mothma and Garm Bel-Iblis begin opposing Palpatine.  
	Bail Organa, Viceroy of Alderaan, bans all weapons from Alderaan.

c. 18 BSD
	The Ghorman Massacre.  Mon Mothma begins organizing resistance to 
	Palpatine's "New Order".  She goes into hiding.  Assassination 
	attempt on Senator Garm Bel-Iblis of Corellia.  He goes into hiding 
	and begins his own war.  Anakin Skywalker disobeys his Jedi teacher 
	and friend, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and studies the Sith teachings.  Anakin 
	Skywalker declares himself Darth Vader, the new Lord of the Sith.  
	His wife goes in hiding and gives birth to Luke and Leia.  Luke is 
	placed with Kenobi's brother on Tatooine, Owen Lars.  Leia and her 
	mother are placed into the custody of Bail Organa of Alderaan.  
	President Palpatine seizes control of the Republic's military and 
	declares emergency martial law.  Palpatine becomes Emperor.  Kenobi 
	and Vader have first battle as enemies.  Vader falls into a molten 
	pit and is left for dead.  Thereafter he relies on machinery to life.  
	Slaughter of Jedi begun throughout the galaxy.  Kenobi goes into 
	hiding on Tatooine.

c. 10 BSD
	Han Solo, an officer in the Imperial Navy, is court-martialed and 
	discharged for freeing a Wookiee slave.  The Wookiee, Chewbacca, 
	makes himself honor-bound to Solo, and the two set out on a life of 
	wheeling and dealing, including their adventures in the Corporate 
	Sector.  Also around this time the Emperor completes his Mount 
	Tantiss storehouse on Wayland, and will set the clone of Jorus 
	C'Baoth, known as Joruus C'Baoth, as it's Guardian.  Also, the Empire 
	makes contact with the planet Calamari.  Ackbar is captured and made 
	a servant of Moff Tarkin.  The Mon Calamari and Quarren rebel against 
	the Empire's hold on Calamari.  Empire repulsed.  It may have been 
	somewhere here that Darth Vader made contact with the Noghri.

3 BSD
	Moff Tarkin (who captained the Republic ship at Ghorman which landed 
	despite the presence of thousands of peaceful demonstrators protesting
	excessive taxes, killing or injuring hundreds) proposes the Death 
	Star in his Tarkin Doctrine of "rule by fear".  The Emperor makes 
	Tarkin the first Grand Moff and provides all resources Tarkin might 
	need for his battle station.  Tarkin secretly establishes the Maw 
	Installation and sets Admiral Daala (the Empire's only woman admiral) 
	as it's commander.  Bevel Lemelisk and his team design the Death Star.
	Construction begins in orbit above Despayre, a penal colony in the 
	remote Horuz system.

2 BSD
	Leia Organa becomes the youngest ever Senator in the Imperial Senate, 
	which still holds some power, although Palpatine's supporters hold a 
	strong majority.

1 BSD
	Han Solo drops a load of glitterstim spice coming from Kessel, in an 
	escape from Imperials.  His employer, Jabba the Hutt, allows Han time 
	to recoup the loss.

0 BSD
	Grand  Moff  Tarkin makes his final visit to Maw Installation.  He 
	tells the scientists there to create something worse than the Death 
	Star.  A Rebel assassination attempt on Tarkin fails, but frees 
	Ackbar.  Rebels intercept Death Star plans and will deliver them to 
	Princess Leia Organa.  The Death Star becomes operational, making it's 
	first target the penal colony of Despayre.  Leia sets off on the
	Tantive IV to find Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Darth Vader pursues her to 
	Tatooine.  Leia places the Death Star plans inside R2-D2.  Artoo and 
	his counterpart C-3PO escape to Tatooine after Vader captures Leia.  
	The droids are captures by Jawas, and then sold to Owen Lars.  Artoo 
	sets out to find Kenobi.  Luke Skywalker and Threepio find him, are 
	attacked by sandpeople, and are rescues by Kenobi.  The Imperial 
	Senate is dissolved, with total rule now under the Emperor through 
	the Moffs and regional governors.  Owen Lars and his wife Beru are 
	killed by stormtroopers hunting the two droids.  Luke takes Kenobi to 
	Mos Eisley.  They and the droids arrange passage to Alderaan with Han 
	Solo.  Solo kills Greedo, a henchman of Jabba.  Solo's ship, the 
	Millenium Falcon, flees Tatooine.  Tarkin destroys Alderaan before it 
	can join the Alliance and recall it's weaponry, and as a public 
	demonstration.  The Falcon is captured by the Death Star as it exit's 
	hyperspace at Alderaan's location.  Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca 
	free Leia.  Kenobi dies as  he battles Vader for the last time.  The 
	Falcon escapes to Yavin Four and the Rebel base hidden there (in the 
	same temple Exar Kun built four thousand years earlier).  Battle of 
	Yavin.  Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star.  Tarkin dies but 
	Vader escapes (his custom TIE fighter possibly possessing hyperdrive 
	capability).  The Rebels flee Yavin just before the Empire can lay 
	siege to the system.

1 ASD
	Fearing for his life, Bevel Lemelisk, architect of the Death Star, 
	flees the Empire.  He is found and the Emperor asks him to design 
	another, larger Death Star.  Lemelisk removes the flaw of the 
	previous battle station, improves the superlaser, and sanctions for a 
	place to begin construction.  Endor will be chosen as site of 
	construction.


2 ASD
	Rebel base established on Hoth.  Han Solo is nearly captured by Boba 
	Fett and Bossk on Ord Mantell.  Commander Ackbar recruits the 
	insectoid Verpines in developing the B-Wing starfighter.

3 ASD
	Darth Vader discovers the rebels  at Hoth.  In a manner still 
	unknown, he learns about Luke Skywalker.  The Battle of Hoth is won 
	by the Empire, but the Rebels are able to evacuate Echo Base.  Luke 
	goes to Dagobah and for several weeks learns the Jedi ways under 
	Yoda.  Han Solo, Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are pursued  by 
	Vader.  Luke has his vision in the Dark Jedi's cave.  Vader arrives 
	at Cloud City and  pressures Lando Calrissian into betraying his 
	friend Solo.  Solo's party is captured.  Solo is carbon-frozen and 
	given to Boba Fett.  Luke arrives at Cloud City to free his friends.  
	Luke has first duel with Vader.  Luke  loses his right hand in 
	battle, and Vader reveals he is Luke's father.  Luke throws himself 
	down an air shaft rather than give in to Vader.  Skywalker is  
	rescued by Leia, Lando, and Chewbacca.  Vader pursues the Falcon, 
	loses it, and  returns to Cloud City.  He recovers Luke's hand and 
	lightsaber.  They are taken to the Emperor's storehouse on Wayland.  
	Luke receives his artificial hand.  Lando and Chewbacca leave for 
	Tatooine.

3-4 ASD
	Somewhere during this year, the second Death Star is discovered by 
	Rebel Spies.  Admiral Ackbar, General Crix Madine, and others begin 
	plans for an assault while the station is being built.  Grand Admiral 
	Thrawn departs for the last time to the Unknown Regions.  He will not 
	return until four years after Endor.

4 ASD
	Luke returns to Tatooine.  He builds his lightsaber in Obi-Wan 
	Kenobi's former home.  Han Solo freed from carbonite by Leia.  Luke 
	arrives at Jabba's palace to free his friends and kills the Rancor.  
	He is seen by Mara Jade.  The battle at the Sarlaac.  Leia kills 
	Jabba.  Boba Fett falls into the Sarlaac; he will blast his way out 
	some time after the battle.  End of Jabba's organization.  Luke goes 
	to Dagobah.  Shortly  before he dies, Yoda confirms that Luke is 
	Vader's son.  Kenobi's spirit counsels Luke and tells him Leia is his 
	sister.  The Emperor arrives at the Death Star.  The Rebel fleet 
	assembles at Sullust.  Solo leads the assault on Endor's shield 
	generator.  The Rebels meet the Ewoks.  Luke gives himself up  to 
	Vader in an effort to save him.  Vader brings Luke before Palpatine.  
	Battle of Endor begins.  Rebels and Ewoks succeed in destroying the 
	shield.  Lando Calrissian leads the direct assault on the Death Star.  
	Vader and Luke have their second duel.  Luke stops short of killing 
	Vader and angers the Emperor.  Palpatine tries to kill Luke, but 
	Vader destroys the Emperor.  Vader shows his face to Luke before he 
	dies.  Calrissian destroys the Death Star's main reactor.  Imperial 
	fleet in disarray.  Star Destroyer Chimaera escapes under Captain 
	Pellaeon.  Vader's funeral pyre.  

0 ABE
	Immediately after the Battle of Endor, the Rebels aid the Imperials 
	at Bakura.  The Ssi-ruuk Imperium is defeated.  Coruscant, galactic 
	seat of power, falls to the Rebels.  Riots and insurrections 
	throughout the civilized portions of the Empire.  Declaration of a 
	New Republic is chartered.  

1-5 ABE
	New Republic adopts Coruscant as it's seat of  government.  
	Provisional council formed.  Imperials now splintered into several 
	factions.  They will be pushed back to a quarter of their former 
	territories.  Palpatine's life essence reforms in the clone labs on 
	Byss.  Palpatine begins planning his return.

3 ABE
	Han Solo competes with Prince Isolder of Hapes for Princess Leia's 
	hand in marriage.  Han wins the planet Dathomir in a game of sabacc.  
	He gives the planet to Leia for the survivors of Alderaan, then 
	kidnaps her and takes her to Dathomir. Luke and Isolder become allies 
	and go to Dathomir.  Han and Leia are captures by the Rancor-riding 
	Witches of Dathomir.  Luke discovers the lost Ch'unthor academy.  
	Warlord Zsinj is defeated by the New Republic and the Hapan fleet.  
	Witches free Han and Leia and give Luke the lost Jedi records.  
	Marriage of Han Solo and Princess Leia on Coruscant.

4 ABE
	Grand Admiral Thrawn returns from the Unknown Regions.  He discovers 
	the fleet under Captain Pellaeon and takes command.  Imperial fleet 
	begins reassembling.  Preparations begin on Byss for Palpatine's 
	return to power.

5 ABE
	Leia Organa Solo pregnant with twins.  Grand Admiral Thrawn begins 
	his offensive.  Obi-Wan Kenobi's final visit to Luke Skywalker.  Han 
	Solo tries to recruit smugglers as cargo haulers.  Joruus C'baoth 
	discovered by Thrawn.  Luke's return to the Dark Side cave on Dagobah.  
	Luke's capture by Mara Jade, who is working for smuggler Talon Karrde.  
	Luke, Han and Lando escape frm Myrkr.  The Battle of Sluis Van 
	Shipyards.  Admiral Ackbar is arrested.  Talon Karrde moves his 
	organization to Rishii.  There he reveals that he knows where the 
	Katana fleet lies.  Han Solo is captured, and taken to Senator Garm 
	Bel-Iblis.  Bel-Iblis wishes to join the New Republic, but mistrusts 
	Mon Mothma.  The Empire and New Republic races to find the Katana 
	fleet.  Leia goes among the Noghri and discovers the Empire has been 
	lying to them.  Battle for the Dark Force.  The return of Bel-Iblis.  
	It is discovered that Thrawn is cloning soldiers.  Ackbar released 
	and his accuser Borsk Feyl'ya is disgraced.  Thrawn begins attacking 
	planets loyal to the New Republic.  Leia gives birth to Jaina and 
	Jacen.  Kidnapping attempt on the twins made inside Imperial Palace.  
	Luke and his party set out to find and destroy the Spaarti cloning 
	lab at Mount Tantiss.  The Siege of Coruscant.  Luke and Mara 
	confront Joruus C'baoth inside Mount Tantiss.  Luuke Skywalker, the 
	clone of Luke made from his missing right hand, battles Luke.  
	C'Baoth loses his mind.  Deaths of C'baoth and Luuke.  Grand Admiral 
	Thrawn is slain by his Noghri bodyguard Rukh.  Pellaeon and the fleet 
	flees to the Unknown Regions.  The remants of the Empire rally and 
	make lightning raids on Republic-held space.  Coruscant falls within 
	weeks of Thrawn's defeat.  New Republic now on offensive again, and 
	sets up field headquarters at Da Soocha V.  The Imperial Civil War 
	between the Imperial Navy and the Emperor's Ruling Circle.  Emperor 
	Palpatine finds those in the military who are still loyal to him.

6 ABE
	New Republic Star Destroyer Liberator crashes on Coruscant, stranding 
	Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, Luke Skywalker and several Rebels.  
	Luke goes into the Imperial Palace and discovers clues that the Dark 
	Side is on the move again.  Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo rescue the 
	downed party from the mutinous Imperials.  Luke refuses to be rescued.  
	The Force storm on Coruscant sucks him and R2-D2 up into captivity.  
	The World Devastators first appear, making their first target the 
	planet Calamari.  Luke is brought to Byss and comes before the 
	Emperor.  Palpatine reveals how he is immortal through the Force and 
	cloning technology.  Luke joins the Dark Side in an effort to destoy 
	it from the inside.  The Battle of Calamari.  On Nar Shadda, Han and 
	Leia recruit the aid of Shug Ninx and Salla Zend, Han's old 
	girlfriend. Leia meets Vima Da-Boda, a former Jedi and descendant of 
	Nomi Sunrider. Han and Leia are ambushed by Boba Fett and Dengar.   
	Han and Leia, Chewbacca, Shug and Salla go to Byss.  Han and Leia 
	find Luke and Leia attacks the Emperor.  The Super Star Destroyer 
	Eclipse, Palpatine's flagship, is launched.  Leia wins Luke from the 
	Dark Side.  She, Luke, and Leia's unborn son negate Palpatine's Dark 
	Side influence.  The Jedi Holocron is recovered by Leia.  Palpatine 
	dies again in battle over Da Soocha V.  The Eclipse is destroyed.  
	Empire on run again.  Rebuilding begins on Coruscant and Calamari.  

7 ABE
	Anakin Solo, son of Leia and Han Solo, is born and put into hiding 
	with Winter, Leia's top aide.  Han and Chewbacca captured at Kessel.  
	Moruth Doole puts them deep in the spice mines where they meet Kyp 
	Durron.  Luke begins searching for Jedi candidates.  Han, Chewbacca, 
	and Durron escape Kessel and try to navigate through the Maw black 
	hole cluster.  They are captured by the Maw Installation instead.  
	Admiral Daala interrogates Han and discovers her commander and lover 
	Grand Moff Tarkin is dead.  Qwi Xux, who designed much of the Death 
	Star, asks Han about the Death Star and shows him the Sun Crusher, a 
	small vessel that can destroy whole solar systems.  Ambassador Furgan 
	of the Imperial training world Carida arrives at Coruscant.  At a 
	diplomatic function, he splashes Mon Mothma with a neuro-toxin.  Luke 
	and Lando Calrissian arrive at Kessel to search for Han and Chewie.  
	Han, Chewie, Durron, and Xux escape the Installation.  Daala sets out 
	in four Star Destroyers, losing one to the Sun Crusher.  Battle 
	between Doole's fleet, the Imperials, and Republic.  Luke establishes 
	his Jedi praxeum at the former Rebel base on Yavin Four.  Mon Mothma's 
	health begins to fail.  The disaster on Vortex: Admiral Ackbar places 
	himself in exile as a result.  Daala begins hit-and-run attacks on 
	several planets.  The spirit of Exar Kun is awakened.  Kun corrupts 
	several of Luke's students.  Mara Jade comes to the academy.  Daala 
	attacks Calamari and loses another Star Destroyer.  Kun show Durron 
	the ways of the Sith and Durron rebels against Luke.  Durron visits 
	the site of Darth Vader's pyre on Endor and declares himself the new 
	Lord of the Sith.  Durron destroys Xux's mind and steals the Sun 
	Crusher. The Jedi Holocron self-destructs.  Durron confronts Luke and 
	Kun disables Luke's mind.  Durron attempts to destroy Daala at the 
	Cauldron by detonating it's component stars.  Daala escapes but loses 
	her third Star Destroyer.  Durron arrives at Carida and demands the 
	return of his brother.  He destroys the system's sun and kills his 
	brother trying.  Leia and the twins arrive at Yavin 4.  Luke now 
	exists on an astral plane; he calls out to the twins for help.  The 
	New Republic leads an attack on Maw Installation.  Tol Sivron, the 
	director of the Installation, flees in the Death Star prototype.  
	Durron continues his rampage against the Empire.  Daala strikes the 
	Republic again.  Mon Mothma resigns her position and appoints Leia as 
	Chief of State.  Luke and Kun struggle in the spirit realm.  The Jedi 
	candidates defeat Kun and free Luke.  Durron surrenders to Solo and 
	is brought to Yavin 4.  He is forgiven by Luke.  The Death Star 
	prototype is destroyed in battle.  Daala flees.  Cilghal cures Mon 
	Mothma.  Kessel is attacked by the Republic and the smugglers 
	coalition.  Doole is killed.  Lando takes over on Kessel.  The 
	Cathedral of the Winds is rebuilt on Vortex.  Luke graduates his 
	first Jedi at the praxeum on Yavin 4.
  













