Timeline

## **Pre-Republic History**

* Dawn Of Time
	+ The Big Bang occurs, creating the universe.
* c. 13,000,000,000 BBY
	+ The galaxy is formed.
* c. 5,000,000,000 BBY
	+ Life emerges on Goroth Prime.
* c. 2,000,000 BBY
	+ The Wookie species begin evolving on the planet Kashyyyk, becoming a species of tree-climbers.
* c. 100,000 BBY
	+ Roughly around this time, the Celestials accomplish a number of feats: the construction of Centerpoint Station using the Killiks, the subsequent construction of the Corellian system using Centerpoint, the Vultar system and its Cosmic Turbine, the Hapes Cluster, and the Kathol Rift. The Maw black hole cluster was also constructed with Centerpoint during the Celestials' era of power to contain the Force entity known as Abeloth.
* c. 90,000 BBY
	+ The metropolis eventually known as Galactic City has grown to the point where new levels are built atop old ones, beginning the trend of upward building that continues for thousands of years.
* 36,453 BBY
	+ The Tho Yor—eight great pyramid starships scattered across the galaxy—activate, calling Force-sensitives to them. The pilgrims board the Tho Yor, which proceed to visit numerous worlds and acquire Force-sensitives of many species before traveling to the Deep Core world of Tython.
	+ The arrival of the Tho Yor at the ninth and largest Tho Yor is heralded by an enormous Force Storm, and the Tho Yor scatter their passengers across Tython. The Tythans soon form the Je'daii Order, a group of Force-users who strive for balance between the light and dark sides of the Force which they know as Ashla and Bogan.

* c. 35,000 BBY
	+ The Rakata, having developed technology powered by the dark side of the Force, establish an Infinite Empire that begins to expand throughout the Unknown Regions and into the western galaxy.

* 33,598 BBY
	+ The central control system of the Infinite Empire's terraforming computer on the planet Kashyyyk receives its last communication from its builders.

* 33,357 BBY
	+ The terraforming computer on Kashyyyk malfunctions, causing a hyper-acceleration in the growth of the planet's forests and giving rise to the enormous wroshyr trees.
* 25,783 BBY
	+ The Force Wars end with the Force Cataclysm and the surviving members of the Je'daii Order establish the Jedi Order.

## **Expansionist Era**

* 25,053 BBY
	+ With the Rakatan hyperdrive having been reverse-engineered by Corellian scientists, the inhabitants of the Core Worlds begin to expand outward and settle the known galaxy.
	+ The Galactic Republic is founded with the signing of the Galactic Constitution, and Coruscant becomes the new government's capital.
* 24,500 BBY
	+ The First Great Schism erupts in the Core Worlds between the Jedi Order and the Legions of Lettow, members of the Jedi Order who seek to use the dark side against the Order's wishes. The Legions' leader Xendor originally asked for permission to create an academy for the study of Force techniques outlawed by the Jedi, and after their refusal he founded the Legions on Lettow—prompting the Order to declare war on them.
* 23,900 BBY
	+ The Republic negotiates with the Jedi, who eventually agree to serve as the Republic's watchmen.
* 22,800 BBY
	+ A Jedi scout follows the Force's call into the Unknown Regions, discovering the crystal world of Ilum. Ilum soon becomes an important religious world for the Jedi Order.

## **Great Manifest Period**

* 20,000 BBY
	+ The Great Manifest Period begins, sparking an era of expansion for the Galactic Republic and the widespread colonization of the Slice.
* 19,500 BBY
	+ The Aeonian Prophecy is written on an ancient Je'daii tablet by a nameless Jedi Master.

## **Kymoodon Era**

* c. 15,000 BBY
	+ The Hutt Cataclysms come to an end; by this time, the Hutt homeworld of Varl and the other colony worlds are lifeless wastes, forcing the Hutts to relocate to Evocar.
	+ The Galactic Senate heeds calls for the reestablishment of the Republic Navy.
	+ The Cremlevian War, which sees the Yuuzhan Vong conquer many of the planets in their galaxy before turning on themselves, comes to an end, and their homeworld Yuuzhan'tar strips the species of their ability to use the Force.
* 12,007 BBY
	+ The Aeonian Tablet is lost to time after a mishap on the Ootmian Pabol trade route.

## **Ductavis Era**

* 10,966 BBY
	+ Grand Master Biel Ductavis assumes the position of Supreme Chancellor; his ascension heralds the end of the Pius Dea era and the start of the Ductavis Era.
* 10,000 BBY
	+ The historian Vicendi compiles a list of the Twenty Wonders of the Galaxy for his Arturum Galactinum, a work commissioned for the Republic's anniversary.
	+ Madilon is discovered and becomes a principle component in hyperdrive manufacturing.

* 9400 BBY
	+ Planetary shielding begins to see widespread use across the galaxy.
* 9200 BBY
	+ Planetary turbolasers are first commonly deployed around this time.

## **Subterra Period**

* 7349 BBY
	+ The Aeonian Tablet is rediscovered by Nejj Danakar, and sold to the Jedi Order for credits.
* 7003 BBY
	+ The Second Great Schism occurs as a number of Dark Jedi split from the Jedi Order.

## **Manderon Period**

* 7000 BBY
	+ The Hundred-Year Darkness begins in the aftermath of the Second Great Schism.
	+ The Taung Mandalore the First leads his followers from the planet Roon to a new world, which his followers rename Mandalore in his honor.
* 6900 BBY
	+ The Hundred-Year Darkness comes to an end with the Battle of Corbos. The defeated Dark Jedi are exiled from the Republic.
	+ Ajunta Pall becomes the first Dark Lord of the Sith.
	+ The Exiles discover the Sith Empire on Korriban, which they quickly conquer and transform into a Force-using magocracy.
* 6740 BBY
	+ The crystal world of Mygeeto is discovered by the Republic.
* 6367 BBY
	+ The first supposed Aeonian, Kareban Rhysode, is born and quickly taken in by the Jedi Order.
* 6313 BBY
	+ Kareban Rhysode perishes at the hands of Dark Jedi Berilyn Skarros, leaving the prophecy yet to be fulfilled.
* c. 5300 BBY
	+ The Jedi Order establishes a training center on the planet Mustafar.

* 5103 BBY
	+ The child Tenebrae kills his father, Lord Dramath, and embarks on a conquest of Nathema.
* 5100 BBY
	+ Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos appoints Tenebrae ruler of Nathema, granting him the title of Lord Vitiate.

## **Post-Manderon Period**

* 5000 BBY
	+ Marka Ragnos dies, prompting a duel between the rival Sith Lords Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow, who both seek to succeed Ragnos. As Ragnos's spirit looks on, Sadow emerges victorious and is anointed the new Dark Lord of the Sith.
	+ The Great Hyperspace War—a galactic conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire—erupts when two young hyperspace scouts, Gav and Jori Daragon, accidentally make contact with the Sith.
	+ Sadow instigates the Great Hyperspace War in hopes of conquering the Republic, invading major Republic worlds such as Coruscant and the Koros system along the Daragon Trail hyperlane.
	+ The Dark Reaper is constructed. (Approximate date)
	+ King Adas's holocron is lost on the planet Ashas Ree following the death of its owner, Lord Garu.
	+ Sadow's forces are ultimately driven back when his forces are revealed to be largely illusions, and Sadow flees back to the Sith Empire, where he is confronted by Ludo Kressh.
	+ Sadow escapes after destroying Kressh's fleet just ahead of a Republic fleet pursuing him, and ultimately finds refuge on the moon of Yavin 4.
	+ The Sith starship *Omen* crashes on the remote planet Kesh, stranding its crew as the Lost Tribe of Sith, while its sister ship *Harbinger* is thrown into the future and arrives around 41 ABY.
	+ Supreme Chancellor Pultimo orders an invasion of the Stygian Caldera to wipe out the remains of the Sith Empire.
* 4999 BBY
	+ Vitiate calls the remaining Sith Lords of the Empire to his homeworld of Nathema, where he binds their wills to his own and conducts a powerful ritual of Sith magic. The Ritual of Nathema strips the Force from the entire planet, killing everyone on the world except Vitiate; Vitiate is made immortal and immensely powerful, becoming the Sith Emperor.
	+ Blaming Nathema's destruction on the Jedi, the Sith Emperor gathers the remains of the Empire and embarks on a length exodus from Sith Space.
* 4980 BBY
	+ The Sith exiles arrive on the planet Dromund Kaas, where the Sith Emperor establishes a reconstituted Sith Empire.
* 4250 BBY
	+ The Third Great Schism erupts as Dark Jedi wage war against their fellows on Coruscant. The Dark Jedi are eventually driven off-world and retreat to the Vultar system, where their attempt to harness the power of the Cosmic Turbine ends in the Vultar Cataclysm—the annihilation of the entire Vultar system.

## **The Great Peace Of The Republic**

* 396 BBY
	+ Urren Malik is born on a budding Coruscant.
* 82 BBY
	+ Darth Sidious (Sheev Palpatine) is born on Naboo.
	+ Dooku passes the Trials and is made a Jedi Knight
* 57 BBY
	+ Obi-Wan Kenobi is born on the
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