Timeline

**Sol Defense Initiative Timeline**

## Pre-History

**-Dawn of Time-**

* Formation of the universe.

**-13 billion BBY-**

* Formation of the Milky Way.

**-4.5 billion BBY-**

* Formation of the Sol System.

**-10 billion BBY-**

* Formation of the Andromeda Galaxy.

**-200 million BBY-**

* Sirius A is formed.

**-120 million BBY-**

* Sirius B is formed

**-70 million BBY-**

* Polaris, The North Star, Aka the Pole Star was formed, it is Alpha Ursae Minoris.

**-65 million BBY-**

* End of the Cretaceous Period on Earth and the extinction of the dinosaurs.

**-10 million BBY-**

* Betelgeuse, the red super-giant Star in the Orion constellation is formed.

## Ancients Era

**-200,000 BBY-**

* The Zhell, early ancestors of the humans of the wider galaxy, win control of their home planet, which will later become Coruscant.

**-100,000 BBY-**

* The Ones construct Center Point Station

**-36,453 BBY-**

* The Je'daii Order is formed on Tython.

**-35,000 BBY-**

* The Rakata establish the Infinite Empire and construct The Star Forge.

**-25,793 BBY-**

* The Force Wars begins.

**-25, 783 BBY-**

* The Force Wars end.

**-27,700 BBY-**

* The Rakata attack Korriban but are repelled.

**-25,200 BBY-**

* The Rakata are struck with a plague that cuts off their connection to the Force.

* The Infinite Empire begins to collapse.

## Republic Era

**-25,053 BBY-**

* The Galactic Republic is formed.

**-24,500 BBY-**

* The First Great Schism of the Jedi order occurs.

**-22,800 BBY-**

* The Jedi discover Ilum in the Unknown Regions.

**-11,933 BBY-**

* The Jedi Order establishes themselves on Ossus.

**-Post 10,000 BBY-**

* Temple of the Kyber built on Jedha.

**-7003 BBY-**

* The Second Great Schism of the Jedi Order begins.

**-7000 BBY-**

* The Hundred Year Darkness begins.

**-6900 BBY-**

* The Hundred Year Darkness ends.

* The defeated Dark Jedi conquer Korriban, forming the Sith Order.

**-5200 BBY/3200 BCE-**

* First writing systems are created on Earth.

**- Pre 5100 BBY-**

* Marka Ragnos becomes the Dark Lord of the Sith.

**-5100 BBY-**

* Vitiate is appointed as a Sith Lord by Marka Ragnos.

## Sith Wars Era

**-5000 BBY/3000 BCE-**

* First civilizations begin on Earth.

* Marka Ragnos dies.

* Naga Sadow and Ludo Kresh duel for title of Dark Lord of the Sith, Sadow wins.

* Great Hyperspace War begins.

* Sith Empire defeated, Naga Sadow crashes on Yavin 4.

**-4,999 BBY-**

* Vitiate conducts the ritual of Nathema, gaining great power and immortality, which made Nathema a wasteland.

* Vitiate becomes the Sith Emperor.

**-4980 BBY-**

* Vitiate re-establishes the Sith Empire on Dromuund Kaas.

**-4575 BBY/2560 BC-**

* Great Pyramid of Giza completed.

**-4400 BBY-**

* Freedon Nadd encounters the spirit of Naga Sadow and turns to the dark side. He establishes himself as the king of Onderon.

**-4086 BBY/2070 BCE-**

* The first dynasty of ancient China, the Xia dynasty, is founded.

**-3997 BBY-**

* Exar Kun turns to the dark side and becomes a Sith. Ulic Qel-Droma becomes his apprentice.

**-3996 BBY-**

* Ulic Qel-Droma returns to the light side.

* Exar Kun is defeated.

**-3976 BBY-**

* The Mandalorian Wars begin.

**-3962 BBY-**

* Revan and Malak join the Mandalorian Wars.

* Revan is appointed the Supreme Commander of the Republic Military.

**-3960 BBY-**

* The Mandalorian Wars end following the Scourge of Malachor V.

**-3959 BBY-**

* Revan and Malak turned to the dark side by the Sith Emperor. After taking control of the Star Forge, they form their own Sith Empire.

* The Jedi Civil War begins.

**-3957 BBY-**

* Revan loses his memory. Rehabilitated by the Jedi.

**-3956 BBY-**

* At the Battle of Rakata Prime, Revan kills Darth Malak, and the Star Forge is destroyed.

**-3955 BBY-**

* Sith Triumvirate is formed.

* First Jedi Purge begins.

**-3951 BBY-**

* The Sith Triumvirate are all killed.

* Jedi Purge and the Old Sith Wars end.

**-3950 BBY-**

* Revan, Meetra Surik, and Scourge attempt to assassinate the Sith Emperor. Surik and Scourge are killed, and Revan is imprisoned for 300 years.

**-3681 BBY-**

* The Great Galactic War begins.

* Korriban is recaptured by the Sith.

**-3667 BBY-**

* Battle of Alderran.

**-3653 BBY-**

* Sith Empire sacks Coruscant.

* Republic signs a peace treaty with the Sith Empire. The Galactic Cold War begins.

* Black Sun syndicate founded.

**-3651 BBY-**

* Satele Shan rediscovers Tython.

**-3650 BBY-**

* Jedi Order constructs a temple on Tython.

**-3642 BBY-**

* The Galactic Cold War ends, and the Galactic War resumes.

**-3641 BBY-**

* Sith Emperor is presumably killed, and the Galactic War ends. Darth Malgus declares creation of a new Sith Empire.

**-3638 BBY-**

* Revan dies on Yavin 4.

**-3637 BBY-**

* The Eternal Empire appears and begins its conquest of the galaxy.

**-3636 BBY-**

* The Eternal Alliance is formed to resist the Eternal Empire.

**-3630 BBY-**

* Vitiate is permantly killed on Zakuul.

**-2768 BBY/753 BCE-**

* Rome founded.

**-2351 BBY/336 BCE-**

* Alexander the Great begins his conquests.

**-2042 BBY/27 BCE-**

* The Roman Republic transitions into the Roman Empire.

**-2015 BBY/1 AD-**

* Birth of Jesus Christ

**-2000 BBY-**

* The New Sith Wars begin following the Fourth Great Schism.

**-1539 BBY/476 AD-**

* Fall of the Western Roman Empire. Eastern Roman Empire renamed the Byzantine Empire. Middle Ages begin.

**-1026 BBY-**

* Darth Bane is born.

**-1010 BBY-**

* Lord Kaan forms the Brotherhood of Darkness and Lord Hoth forms the Army of Light to resist it.

**-1000 BBY-**

* The New Sith Wars end at the Battle of Ruusan, resulting in the destruction of the entire Sith Order except for Darth Bane, who creates the Rule of Two.

## Old Republic Era

**-921 BBY/1096 AD-**

* August 15 - July 15 - First crusade, The Crusaders successfully capture Jerusalem and establish the Levantine Crusader states.

**-896 BBY/1121 AD-**

* Yoda is born.

**-802 BBY/1215 AD-**

* Signing of the Magna Carta.

**-674 BBY/1343 AD-**

* The Black Death firsts arrives in Europe.

**-666 BBY/1351 AD-**

* The Black Death dies down.

**-524 BBY/1492 AD-**

* Christopher Columbus discovers the North American continent.

**-434 BBY/1583 AD-**

* Declaration of the British Empire.

**-397 BBY/1620 AD-**

* Mayflower Voyage.

**-241 BBY/1776 AD-**

* Declaration of Independence is signed. American Revolution begins.

**-232 BBY/1783 AD-**

* American Revolution ends.

**-226 BBY/1789 AD-**

* French Revolution begins.

**-225 BBY/1790 AD-**

* The Industrial Revolution begins.

**-216 BBY/1799 AD-**

* French Revolution ends.

**-211 BBY/ 1804 AD-**

* May 18 - Napoleonic Wars after Napoleon I becomes the Emperor of France.

**-200 BBY/1815 AD-**

* Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled.

**-154 BBY/1861 AD-**

* March 4 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States of America.

* April 12 - 13 - Battle of Fort Sumter, ends with Confederate victory. Marks the beginning of the American Civil War.

* July 21 - The first Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the US Civil War, resulting in Confederate victory.

**-153 BBY/1862 AD-**

* April 25 - May 1 - Capture of New Orleans, ended in Union victory. This capture of the largest Confederate city was a major turning point and an incident of international importance.

* September 17 - Battle of Antietam, ends in a tactical Union victory.

**-152 BBY/1863 AD-**

* July 1 - 3 - Battle of Gettysburg, ends in a massive Union victory.

**-151 BBY/1864 AD-**

* November 15 - December 21 - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his "March to the Sea" across Confederate territory, also known as "Sherman's March".

**-150 BBY/1865 AD-**

* April 9 - The Confederate Army surrenders at Appomattox in Virginia.

* April 15 - Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

* May 9 - American Civil War officially ends.

**-147 BBY/1868 AD-**

* Formation of the Empire of Japan, Emperor Meiji promises a new prosperity to his newborn empire by befriending the western nations including Britain.

**-119 BBY/1896 AD-**

* The first modern Olympic Games held in Athens.

## Modern Terra Era

**-112 BBY/1903 AD-**

* December 17 - First flight of the airplane "the Wright Flyer" occurs in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

**-111/1904 AD-**

* Russo-Japanese War begins.

**-110BBY/1905 AD-**

* Russo-Japanese War ends with a decisive Japanese victory.

**-104 BBY/1911 AD-**

* June 11 - Japanese battlecruiser *Kongō*, lead ship of  her class, is laid down.

**-103 BBY/1912 AD-**

* April 14-15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic with a total of 1,496 casualties.

**-102 BBY/1913 AD-**

* July 13 - Strikes at the Vickers shipyards delay *Kongō’s* construction to the point that the Japanese cancel their order. The fate of the battlecruiser is uncertain.
* December 13 - Secretary of the US Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, decides to purchase the incomplete *Kongō*, realizing that he has an opportunity for a major intelligence coup, legal industrial espionage, and figuring that the USN can use a battlecruiser to supplement its growing force of modern battleships. The purchase goes smoothly and many workers laid off from the earlier strikes return and resume construction.

**-101 BBY/1914 AD-**

* June 28 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Saravejo.

* July 28 - 29 - World War I officially begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after ignoring Hungary’s ultimatum of surrender. Through many political and military alliances the conflict expands to include the German Empire, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Third French Republic, and many others.

* August 16 - USS Constitution, the former *Kongō,* the United States first battlecruiser is commissioned, with the heavy frigate bearing the same name being renamed *Old Constitution*. "Konnie", as she becomes nicknamed, is placed as flagship of the Scouting Force.

* December 24 - 25 - The Christmas Truce occurs.

**-100 BBY/1915 AD-**

* May 15 - The sinking of Lusitania.

* June 6 - The fifth *Kongō*-class battlecruiser *Kongō*, named after the canceled lead ship is laid down.

**-99 BBY/1916 AD-**

* May 31 - June 1 - Battle of Jutland.

* June 21 - November 18 - Battle of the Somme.
	+ July 18 - Erica Petralas crashes on Earth over Europe.

* September 15 - Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The first use of tanks in combat occurs.

* November 21 - Sinking of the HMHS Britannic.

**-98 BBY/1917 AD-**

* March 8 - Russian Revolution begins.

* April 6 - The United States officially enters WW1 on the side of the Allies after the discovery of the Zimmerman telegram.

* July 8 - Battlecruiser *Kongō* is commissioned.

* November 6 - 7 - Bolshevik Revolution, also known as the October Revolution, occurs.

**-97 BBY/1918 AD-**

* March 21 - July 18 – the Spring Offensive, the German Empire's last attempt to defeat the British and French armies on the Western Front, end in Allied victory.

* July 18 - The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, perpetrated by the Bolshevik assassins.

* November 11 – An armistice is signed between Central and Allied powers, and World War I comes to an end.

* December - Spanish flu outbreak begins.

**-96 BBY/1919 AD-**

* September 2 - Jacob Wilson is born.

**-95 BBY/1920 AD-**

* January - Spanish flu outbreak ends.

* January 2 - Akira Yamamoto is born.

* January 10 - The foundation of the League of Nations hopes to prevent future conflicts.

* February 24 - The foundation of the Nazi Party, aka the German National Socialist Workers Party (Previously known as German Workers' Party in 1917), is founded by Anton Drexler.

**-94 BBY/1921 AD-**

* The Washington Naval Treaty is ratified to prevent another naval arms race that in part led to the First World War. Numerous ships are scrapped on the slipways, including four of the US Navy’s planned *Lexington*-class battlecruisers. *Lexington* herself, alongside *USS Saratoga*, is converted into a new type of warship - the aircraft carrier. The USN, after extensive negotiations, manages to keep *USS Constitution*, and continue construction on USS Constellation (CC-4). The Royal Navy keeps HMS *Tiger*, while the Imperial Japanses Navy is able to keep the Amagi-class battlecruiser *Ashitaka*​.

**-93 BBY/1922 AD-**

* December 30 - Establishment of the Soviet Union.

**-86 BBY/1929 AD-**

* Great Depression begins when the stock market in America crashes.

**-83 BBY/1932 AD-**

* Jacob Wilson and Akira Yamamoto meet for the first time when Jacob see her being harassed. After helping to drive them off, and sustaining slight bruising, Akira takes him to her home for treatment by her father.

**-82 BBY/1933 AD-**

* Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany as the Fuhrer, establishing Nazi Germany under his rule led by the Nazi party.

**-81 BBY/1934 AD-**

* May 21 - *USS Yorktown* is laid down.

* June 8 - *USS Constitution* enters a prolonged refit and overhaul.

* July 16 - *USS Enterprise* is laid down.

**-80 BBY/1935 AD-**

* March 16 - Rearmament of Germany begins.

**-78 BBY/1937 AD-**

* July 7 - Second Sino-Japanese War begins as the Empire of Japan invades mainland China.

* September 30 - *USS Yorktown* is commissioned.

* December 13 to late January - Nanjing massacre begins, a massacre perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army killing thousands of Chinese citizens.

* May 6 - "The Hindenburg Disaster" - the German airship LZ129 or Hindenburg explodes into flames while landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, due to a hydrogen leak. The blimp burns in under 40 seconds, killing 35 people.

**-77 BBY/1938 AD-**

* May 12 - *USS Enterprise* is commissioned.

* December - German physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch discover nuclear fission.

**-76 BBY/1939 AD-**

* September 1 - World War II officially begins when Germany invades Poland.

* September 3 - Britain and France declare war on Germany.

* November 30 - The Winter War begins, USSR declares war against Finland.

**-75 BBY/1940 AD-**

* January 11 - Akira Yamamoto is taken to Japan with her family in order to assist in the family business and leave behind the growing anti-Japanese sentiment on the U.S. West Coast, leaving her child hood friend Jacob behind, though not without promising they’d see each other again.

* May 10 to June 10 - Battle of France, the battle between France and Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg ends in German victory and a French surrender.

* June 10 - The North African Campaign begins, when Italy along with Germany invades the large portion of North Africa, in order to conquer British held territories.

* June 11 - Western Desert campaign begins with a military counteroffensive of British armored and infantry divisions against the German-Italian Axis forces in the area.

* August 10 - Jacob Wilson enlists in the United States Navy. He is later selected for training to become a Naval Aviator.

* August 14 - USS Constitution re-enters service. She is immediately assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

* September 27 - Nazi Germany, the Italian Fascist state and the Empire of Japan become the Axis Powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.

**-74 BBY/1941 AD-**

* June 22 - Operation: Barbarossa begins. Germany invades the Soviet Union capturing many major cities. The official beginning of The Great Patriotic War.

* 10 of July - Battle of Britain begins.

* December 5 - Operation: Barbarossa ends with the Axis failure at the Soviet's A-A line, which begins the Soviet winter counter-offensive.

* December 7 - The Attack on Pearl Harbor occurs. In response the United States declares war on Japan.

* December 11 - Germany declares war against the United States. The U.S. declares war on Germany and Italy later the same day.

**-73 BBY/1942 AD-**

* July 1 - 27 ~ The first battle of El Alamein ends in a stalemate but halts the Axis advance on Alexandria (and then Cairo and ultimately the Suez Canal).

* October 23 - November 11 ~ The Second Battle of El Alamein, a major Allied counterattack against the forces of Nazi Germany and Italy, ends in a decisive Allied victory and defeat of the " Desert Fox " Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps.

* May 4 - 8 ~ Battle of the Coral Sea. Both sides publicly claim victory after the battle.

* June 4 - 7 ~ Battle of Midway occurs and ends in decisive US victory.

* August 7 - Guadalcanal Campaign begins.

* November 8 - Operation: Torch begins.

* November 16 - Operation: Torch ends with the Allies in control of French North Africa, and Germany fully occupies southern France.

**-72 BBY/1943 AD-**

* February 2 - The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end, with the surrender of the German 6th Army.

* February 9 - Guadalcanal Campaign comes to an end in a Allied victory.

* July 10 - The Allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins, with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy.

* July 25 - Benito Mussolini is arrested after the Grand Council of Fascism withdraws its support.

**-71 BBY/1944 AD-**

* June 6 - D-Day begina when the Allied forces stage an enormous assault on German positions on the beaches of Normandy, France.

* June 19 ~ 20 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea occurs. This engagement leads to the destruction of the majority of Japan’s carrier based aviation. The aviation portion of the battle was later nicknamed the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.

* August 19 - 25 ~ Liberation of Paris, and later the successful capitulation of Vichy France.

* September 19 - December 16 - Battle of Hürtgen Forest.

* October 23 - United States land forces on the island of Leyte in the Philippines

* October 23 - 26 ~ US and Japanese naval forces engage each other in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest terrestrial naval battle in Terran history.

* December 16 - Battle of the Bulge begins, the last German counteroffensive.

**-70 BBY/1945 AD-**

* January 12 - Soviet offensive in Poland is launched, eight days earlier than originally intended.

* January 25 - Germany defeated by the Allies in the Battle of the Bulge.

* February 19 - March 26 - The Battle of Iwo Jima.

* April 1 - June 22 – The last major battle of the Pacific War, the Battle of Okinawa occurs.

* April 16 - May 6 - Battle of Berlin. Soviet forces capture the city, ending the war in Europe.

* April 27 - Eastern Allies meets Western Allies at Berlin.

* July 16 - The Manhattan project comes into fruition with the first successful test of the first atomic bomb on Trinity Site, New Mexico.

* August 6 - 9 - Nuclear weapons used in combat for the first time when dropped on Hiroshima and Bombing of Nagasaki|Nagasaki]].

* October 24 - Formation of the United Nations.

* November 23 - Nuremberg Trials begin, during which the Allies prosecute German war criminals for their crimes against humanity.

**-69 BBY/1946 AD-**

* April 29 - Tokyo tribunals began, the Allies prosecute Japanese war criminals for their crimes against humanity regarding their atrocities in Nanjing, China, the Imperial military's abuse of POWs and the infamous Unit 731.

* July 1 - 26 - Operation: Crossroads occurs. Several vessels including *USS Saratoga* and *USS Constitution* are sunk.

**-68 BBY/1947 AD-**

* Terran Cold War begins.

* Chuck Yeager becomes the first Terran pilot to break the sound barrier.

* July 8 - A U.F.O. crashes in a field outside of Roswell, New Mexico.

**-67 BBY/1948 AD-**

* June 24 - Berlin Airlift, which ends on May 12, 1949.

**-66 BBY/1949 AD-**

* Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong takes power as they defeat the forces of Republic of China in the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People's Republic of China under the CCP rule, while the defeated KMT-led ROC government fleas to Taiwan.

* Formation of NATO in response to the rising communist threat on Eastern Europe and China.

**-65 BBY/1950 AD-**

* June 25 - Korean War begins when North Korea invades South Korea.

-62 BBY/1953 AD-

* July 27 – Korean War ends in armistice.

-60 BBY/1955 AD-

* November 1 - The Vietnam War begins.

**-58 BBY/1957 AD-**

* October 4 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first satellite in orbit.

**-57 BBY/1958 AD-**

* June 29 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is founded in the United States.

**-56 BBY/1959 AD-**

* January 1 - The Cuban Revolution, led by Fidel Castro occurs. Due to his brutality and authoritarianism against opponents and dissidents, Cuban civilians begin fleeing Cuba, mainly to Florida.

**-54 BBY/1961 AD-**

* April 12 - Yuri Gargarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first man in space onboard Vostok 1.

* April 17 - 20 - The Bay of Pigs invasion. Armed Cuban exiles (who opposed Castro's regime), covertly supported by the United States, invade the Bay of Pigs in Southwestern Cuba to overthrow Castro and the Cuban communist government. The invasion fails, causing major tensions between the US, Cuba, and the Soviet Union.

* May 5 - Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American astronaut in space aboard his Mercury capsule Freedom.

**-53 BBY/1962 AD-**

* October 16 - 28 ~ The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs.

**-52 BBY/1963 AD-**

* November 22 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Lyndon B. Johnson takes over as President of the United States.

**-51 BBY/1964 AD-**

* July 2 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.

**-48 BBY/1967 AD-**

* January 27 - The first tragedy in American space travel occurs when Apollo 1 catches fire, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.

* June 10 ~ 16 - The Six Day War occurs.

**-47 BBY/1968 AD-**

* December 24 - Apollo 8 makes the first orbit around Earth's moon.

**-46 BBY/1969 AD-**

* July 16 - Apollo 11 mission. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first humans to walk on Earth's moon.

**-45 BBY/1970 AD-**

* April 11 - 17 - The infamous Apollo 13 moon mission ends in near disaster when an O2 tank explodes damaging the spaceship. The 3 astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise manage to return safely to back Earth.

**-44 BBY/1971 AD-**

* April 19 - the Soviet Union launches the first space station, Salyut 1.

**-43 BBY/1972 AD-**

* May 9 - US launches Operation: Linebacker, a bombing campaign of North Vietnam and troop concentrations in the South, which ends on October 23rd.

* December 7 - 19 - Apollo 17, the final moon mission.

**-42 BBY/1973 AD-**

* Yom Kippur War.

* US involvement in the Vietnam war ends.

* NASA launches America's first space station, Skylab.

**- 41 BBY/1974 AD-**

* August 8 - US President Richard Nixon resigns from office due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford takes Nixon place as President.

* September 11 - Will Tipton is born.

**-40 BBY/1975 AD-**

* April 4 - Thomas Wilson is born.

* April 30 - The Fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War, two countries unite as one Communist state.

* July 15 - The Apollo-Soyuz mission (the final Apollo mission). The first international space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union.

**- 40 BBY/1977 AD-**

* May 12 - Tamara Wilson is born.

**- 39 BBY/1976 AD-**

* July 20 - September 3 ~ NASA lands Viking 1 and Viking 2 on Mars.

* August - September- NASA launches two deep space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 for flyby missions of the Sol System planets.

**- 36 BBY/1979 AD-**

* January 7 - February 11 ~ Iranian Islamic Revolution, led by Ruhollah Khomeini overthrowing the secular government of Iran and the Reza Shah Pahlavi the emperor of Iran, resulting in the 1979 oil crisis, constitutional change, Iranian hostage crisis at US Embassy in Tehran and the Beginning of the Iran–Iraq War.

* February 17 - March 16 ~ Sino-Vietnamese War. Tensions between Vietnam against Mainland China, which later become a full-scale conflict between the two nations. Both sides claim victory.

* December 24 - the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan due to conflicts between the Afghan communist government and the civilians. Groups of armed Sunni Muslim civilians form the Mujahideen and fight back against the Soviet forces, this starting the Soviet-Afghan War.

**-35 BBY/1980 AD-**

* May 18 - The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupts at 12:36 PM. The eruption kills 57 people and costing over 1 billion dollars in damage.

* September 22 - Iran-Iraq War begins.

**-34 BBY/1981 AD-**

* April 12 - STS-1, The United States launches the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first space shuttle ever constructed and put in orbit.

* June 7 - Operation Opera. The Israeli Air Force bombs an Iraqi incomplete nuclear reactor.

**-33 BBY/1982 AD-**

* April 2 - June 14 - Falklands war, a military conflict between Great Britain and Argentina over the laters occupation of the Falkland Islands.

**-32 BBY/1983 AD-**

* September 1 - Korean Airlines flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet fighter jet, which kills 269 passengers, thus escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

* September 26 - A false alarm from the Soviet nuclear warning system sounds, nearly causing nuclear war with the United States. The crisis was averted when Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov trusted his instincts and didn't retaliate.

**-31 BBY/1984 AD-**

**-30 BBY/1985 AD-**

**-29 BBY/1986 AD-**

* January 28 - (STS 51-L) Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds during launch at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All members of the crew lose their lives. Investigation discovered that cold temperatures caused and O-ring to rupture in one of the solid rocket boosters.

* April 26 - At 1:23 A.M., Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, USSR, explodes during a safety test, killing 31 people and resulting in the worst nuclear disaster in Earth’s history.

## Rising Terra Era

**-28 BBY/1987 AD-**

* July 30 ~ September 28 - Republic deep space explorers discover Earth located in the Unknown Regions. Contact is established between the United Nations and the Republic, with the Republic agreeing to a limited technology and goods trade.

* December 8 ~ 10 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Washington D.C. to discuss issues on the Soviet/Afghanistan war, arms deals concerning chemical weapons, and the signing of the Intermediate - Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

**-27 BBY/1988 AD-**

* August 20 – Iran-Iraq war comes to an end.
* November 11 - The Sol Defense Initiative is enacted.

**-26 BBY/1989 AD-**

* November 9 - The Berlin Wall falls.

**-25 BBY/1990 AD-**

* August 2 - The Gulf War begins, Iraq invades Kuwait, in response a coalition of nations is formed and Operation: Desert Shield commences.

**-24 BBY/1991 AD-**

* January 17 - Operation: Desert Storm begins

* February 28 - Gulf War ends.

* August 2 - Formation of the Terran Systems Alliance, along with its Army and Navy.

* December 21 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union into its member states occurs.

**-23 BBY/1992 AD**

* April 19 - The Corellian Engineering Corporation and Rendili Stardrive agree to supply the buddying Terran Starfleet with 20 Consular-class cruisers and 8 Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruisers to assist in a sizable military build up.

**-22 BBY/1993 AD-**

* February 18 - First Battle of Geonosis, the beginning of the Clone Wars.

**-21 BBY/1994 AD-**

* August 21 ~ 26 – The CIS invades Earth in a surprise attack, which is beaten off by Terran forces in orbit and on the ground with the aid of Republic reinforcements. Comes to be known as Sol Campaign.

**-20 BBY/1995 AD-**

* December 21 - With data stolen from Separatist infiltrators, in turn stolen from ancient Republic archives, the TSA discovers the remains of the Rakatan Star Forge. Several sections of the destroyed stations are then slowly carried out system over the course of the next few months for study.

**-19 BBY/1996 AD-**

* August 18 - The Clone Wars officially end.