History

So, Galctic history is mindbogglingly long.

Human written history is about 5,000 years old; the Star wars written history is over 1,000,000,000 years long. It makes it understandable why new-canon is trying to make the timescales a little more reasonable.

If one looks purely at the history of the republic, we have 30,000 years. That is still a wild number; made even more so by the fact that it hasn't changed in any serious ways in all that time.

Even taking the Roman State in it's absolutely maximum length of existence (753 BC to 1453 AC), we only reach 2,000 years, hell calling all chinese empires each other's successor states only nets 4,000 years (2,070 BC-1912 AC).

The Republic is ancient. The Galaxy is even older.

What puts this into persepctive somewhat is that Humans are the mayflies of the universe. Hutts live up to 2,000 years, Neti even longer and the Gen'Dai can reach 7,000 years of age.

30,000 years for a human is 1,500 years for a Hutt. Still a lot, but much more manageable.

## A Rough Guide to the History of the Galaxy

### A list of relevant Dates

Counting backwards from the fall of the republic in 19 BBY.

* 1 billion years ago - the oldest known civilization thrives and dies on Jerrilek.
* 200,000 years ago - first records of Taung, humans aren't a thing yet.
* 100,000 years ago - the celestials were at their zenith. If the Force is an artificial creation, it was created around now. (The Je'daii use the Yo Thor Arrival calendar)
* 90,000 years ago - Humans are definitely around and fairly busy on Coruscant.
* 40,000 years ago - both Rakata and Kwa exist, and are in conflict.
* Alse 40,000 years ago; something (possibly celestial tech) created the basis for the Je'daii order on Tython
* 35,000 years ago - Rakata begins expanding into the western galaxy.
* 30,000 years ago - first mention of the Sith on Alderaan by the Killik that fight them, and are repelled. Shortly after they abruptly disappear. (They reappear in the western half of the galaxy)
* 27,000 years ago - Rakata fights the Sith and is repelled. The SIth learn Hyperdrive tech from their enemies and carve out a small area of space in the Stygian Caldera. Sith Timeline
* 27,500 - Humans begin collonising other planets in the Core by way of sleeper ships. All Near-Human species are younger than this date; unless they were transplanted by the Rakata or the Celestials and assuming Coruscant is the origin-world of humanity. There is some doubt to this; a sublight sleepership from Coruscant would have taken over 50,000 years to get to Tion; and the Tionese existed a mere 2,000 years later. Also, making a ship that can traverse 50,000 light-years worth of space without killing the inhabitants is a tall order. It must be noted though that Tionese definitely had contact with the Rakata. Also also, human ability to adapt to the most wild of worlds and their quick evolution do speak for some kind of tampering in the DNA...
* 26,000 - Kuat sent out a wave of sleeper ships.
* 25,711 - The Jedi Order land on Ossus. The (first) Jedi Calendar begins counting from here. **Jedi Timeline**
* 25,000 - The Infinite Empire dies out as the Rakata contract a plague that strips them of the Force. (Did they anger the SIth? Or the Je'daii? Or some other group?)
* Also 25,000 years ago - The Hutt Empire establishes itself in the wake of the Rakata.

Exactly 25,044 years before the collapse of the Republic it is founded.

Thus from here we count time in FR (Founding of the Republic)

* Impetus for the founding of the Republic was the reverse engineering of the Rakatan Hyperdrive by Corellia.
* 8 - Corellian Run is mapped.
* 20 - Perlemian Run is mapped.
* 553 - The Jedi experience the first great Schism (1,211 AO)
* 1060-1153 - The Tionese War
* ca 5,000 FR - The Colonies and the Inner Rim are considered settled by the Republic
* 8035 - the Alsakan Conflicts begin.
* 9541 - founding of the University of Coruscant
* 10158 - Destruction of the Hutt Empire
* 10352 - Aqualish War
* 12035 - the Herglic Trade Empire is folded into the Republic. It had at that point existed for over 10,000 years.
* 13,066 - Contispex becomes the 1410th Supreme Chancellor after the Impeachment of his Predecessor Pers'lya

At this point the Republic slowly stopped counting from the founding of the Republic, but instead from the Founding of the Holy State of the Goddess; which was retroactively dated to 13,066 FR (11987 BBY) Before getting into that though, let's take a look at the Alsakan Conflicts. There are seventeen of them, and the first five occured before the Pius Dea took over the Republic.

These five wars lasted from 8035-8352; 8569-9650; 10553-10758; 11251-11881 and 12001-12327. These conflicts arose mostly between the multi-species worlds along the spin and the human dominated worlds along the Perlemian. As the Perlemian interacted with the rest of the galaxy exclusively through Corsucant; two societies formed. As the planet on the Perlemian just before Coruscannt, Alsaka became the champion world for the Perlemian. As the republic expanded and new hyperlane branches off the Perlemian were discovered (and the actions of Coruscant in the Tionese War became more and more forgotten) these conflicts lost in intensity.

Alright, back to the Pius Dea. The First Year in the Pius Dea Calendar is the 13,066th in the Ancient Republic Calendar and the year 11987 BBY.

* Contispex I (1-41)
* 23 - First Pius Dea crusade against Hutt Space
* 35 - 2nd Pius Dea crusade against Hutt Space
* 41 - Contispex II, son of Contispex takes over as Supreme Chancellor, begining the Lineage of Contispex.
* 49 - 3rd Pius Dea crusade against Hutt Space
* The Jedi Order Recuse themselves, no longer willing to support even peripherally the Pius Dea. (13,778 AO)
* 68 - 4th Pius Dea crusade against Hutt Space
* 104 - Great Northern Crusade against the Zabraki and other non-humans in the northern galaxy.
* 164 - The Sixth Alsakan Conflict - Alsaka and many of the Perlemian Worlds seceed from the Republic.
* 877 - The Jedi End their Recusion in reaction to the beginning of the Inquisition; an attempt by the Pius Dea to route out traitors and non-believers it more closely resembled a witch hunt.
* Before the End of the Pius Dea Era, there will be 34 Crusades against various non-human groups in the Galaxy. The final one occured in 931 Pius Dea
* 1021 - The Seventh Alsakan Confict, or the Pius Dea Civil war: A pius dea splinter called the Renunciates, the Jedi, the Republic Navy and the Republic Bureaux of Ships and Services as well as Alsaka, Caamas, the Duros, Herglics and the Hutts band together to oust the Pius Dea.
* 1022 - End if the Pius Dea with the Trial and Imprisonment of Contispex XIX, dissolution of the Senate and placement of Jedi Grand Master Biel Ductavis as Supreme Chancellor. Much of the Republic was overhawled and it might be accurate to call this Republic 2.0.

Now, we jump back to the Republic Calendar. While there were some attempts at staring a Ductavis Calendar to match the Ductavis Era; the Jedi Order successfully squashed the name, though they didn't squash the Idea which is why during the Old Republic - up until the Treaty of Coruscant when the Republic was forcibly switched to the Sith Calendar the new Republic Calendar was in use.

1022 Pius Dea = 14087 FR = 10966 BBY = year 0 of the RC system

* 442 - the Republic Kumauri War, ending with victory for the Republic
* 1000 - 1000 years since the defeat of the Pius Dea. A year of great celebration; as most also took it to be the 1000th year of their new and improved Republic.
* 3155- Waymancy Storm
* 3968- Second Schism in the Jedi Order (18713 AO) and the beginning of the Hundred Year Darkness
* 3966 - The Taung settle on Roon and rename it Manda'yaim. (The mandalorian calendar is it's own topic. Historians would call this 20224 by the Sith reckoning or 2,903 years before the crowning of Mand'alor the Indomitable.)
* 4094- End of the Darkness. (18839 AO)
* 4098- Ajunta Pall becomes the first Lord of the Sith Empire (20255 by the Sith Reckoning)
* 5446 - Rimma Trade Route; and the complete establishment of the Corellian Trade Spine
* 5866 - Tenebae gains the Title of Lord Vitiate (22,023 by the sith calendar) - this becomes important later.
* 5985 - Ruling Sith Emperor Marka Ragnos dies; leaving his succession split between Ludo Kresh and Naga Sadow. Sadow wins the required duel and is named Emperor.

Now we reach the year 5967 RC, the year the Sith Empire invaded the Republic and was destroyed. That is year 20,712 AO and year 22,124 by the Sith Reckoning.

* 6566 - Onderon becomes a Sith stronghold after fallen Padawan and Sith apprentice to Naga Sadow Freedon Nadd flees there. (21,311 AO)
* 6716 - The Jedi Order experiences it's third schism.
* 6775 - advances in Navcomputer technology make Jump Beacons obsolete and hyperspace travel exponentially easier; even on less well mapped routes.
* 6611 - Bacta is discovered
* 6945 - Mandalore raids the Nevoota people to extinction
* 6949 - Mandalora attacks Basalisk.
* 6951 - the Great Droid Revolution
* 6959 - The Wuseya Border Conflict
* 6963 - the Giju passage out of Herglic Space is mapped
* 6964 - Onderon joins the Republic

The war between the Jedi and the Republic vs Exar Kun's SIth Empire and the Krath lasted from 6969-6970. A lot happens in this period, most notably the Cron Supernova that leads to the Jedi relocating to Coruscant a few years later.

* 6971 - The Jedi begin a Great Hunt against the Sithspawn of Exar Kun's Sith remnants. It lasts two years.
* 6980 - Jedi Order hold a conclave on Exis Station; reuniting the Order under one helm and relocating it to Coruscant.
* 6981 - The Corsucant Financial Exchange Establishment Act is passed
* 6990 - The Mandalorians begin expanding outwards from Mandalore.
* 6993 - Mandalorians Massacre the Cathar.
* 6996 - Kanz declares itself independant.
* 7001 - The first battles between Mandalore and the Republic
* 7003 - the Revanchists - a faction of Jedi that disagreed with the Jedi neutrality policy - joined the Republic-Mando war.
* 7006 - The Republic win the Mandalorian wars
* 7007 - The leader of the revanchists declares himself Darth Revan and together with his apprentice Darth Malik declare war on the Republic.

This War is often split into a Jedi Civil War and a Sith Civil war part; Revan was a very popular figure and plenty of republic and jedi threw themselves to his side; most notably a good portion of the Republic navy.

* 7010 - The Sith Empire breaks into pieces with the death of Darth Malik - Revan defected back to the Jedi.
* 7012 - The Sith Triumvirate unifies what is left of the Sith under their banner, and begin targeting the Jedi.
* 7014 - After two years of being hunted by by Darth Sion's Sith Assassins, the Jedi hold a Conclave on Katarr. Darth Nihilus attacks this gathering and wipes out most of the Jedi Order.
* 7015 - Mandalore joins the war, this time fighting the Sith.
* 7015 - the last of the Triumvirate dies to the Jedi Order. The SIth fall apart again and are slowly destroyed over the next decades.

So a short period of peace. Not much notable happens in this era beyond the full charting of the Hydian Way in 7272. In 7285, the Sith Empire under Darth Vitiate that has been hiding in the Unknown regions since 5866 attacks the Republic and marking the beginning of the Great Galactic War.

* 7285 - The reconstructed Sith Empire begins it's assault on the Republic.
* 7296 - Kranz is reintegrated into the Republic, ending the kranz disturbances
* 7299 - the Sith Empire places a patsy into the position of Mandalore, and allying Mandalore with the Sith
* 7312 - The Sith Empire takes Coruscant, sacking the Jedi Temple.
* 7313 - With Coruscant in their hands, the SIth force the Jedi to sign the Treaty of Coruscant.
* 7315 - Tython is discovered and the Jedi relocate to Tython.
* 7324 - The Treaty of Coruscant is broken, and the Republic goes back to war.
* 7326 - Emperor Vitiate appears to die on Dromund Kaas, killed by a Jedi. Darth Malgus reforms the Sith Empire, and Darzj Acina is crowned Empress, later replaced by Darth Vowrawn
* 7330 - The Eternal Empire under Valcoran (Darth Vitiate) begins it's cenquest of the galaxy.
* 7335 - parts of the warring Empire and Repuiblic band together against the Eternal Empire, calling themselves the Allegiance.
* 7336 - The Allegiance kills Valcoran and takes over the Eternal Empire, renaming it the Eternal Allegiance. and declaring Peace in teh Galaxy.
* 7338 - War breaks out between the Republic and the Sith Empire.

We don't quite know how the Third Gactic was ended, or when precisely the Jedi moved back to coruscant. However, 7412 RC is the date of the Document detailing the declaration of the Great Galactic Peace on Chandrila. Thus, AC/BC.

* 0 AC - Darth Desolus; last hold out of the Sith Empire dies.
* 422 AC - The Hapes Consortium closes it's borders.
* 505 - The seventeeth and Last Alsakan Conflict
* 1547 - Fourth Great Schism and the debut of Darth Ruin. Darth Ruin sought out the Sith Clans still scattered in hiding among the galaxy. He, and the fifty odd jedi that followed him formed the New Sith. Ruin did not last long, dieing in 1551 as his apprentices banded together to kill him.

The period of time beginning with Darth Ruin is not one we have much documentation on. It was a natural consequence of the nature of the conflict. Darth Ruin held a unified Sith Empire, but after his death his followers fractured, leading to dozens of smaller Sith Empires that independantly fought the Republic. This split the republic into many small territories that were at odds with each other, strangling trade not only for the republic but for the various loosely alligned bands of sith-empires. The fact that Sith were absolutely willing to coordinate against the Jedi and the Republic ate at Republic territory and Senate control until finally, in 2100 the Republic as a democratic entity was essentially gone.

The republic territories; as disparate as they were, relied heavily on the Jedi presence on their world. Any planet or system without was quickly subsumed into various Sith States. Thus, the Jedi found themselves more and more in charge of various territories, starting the era of the Jedi Lords. With a Jedi in charge of the Republic, communication and coordination across the galaxy by way of the Force became possible.

* 1722 - Ubese genocide
* 2100 - Republic Dark Ages
* 2122 - The last non-jedi Chancellor until Valorum abdicates.
* 2514 - Fifth Jedi Schism; with the Dark Jedi vowing to take control of the Sith and reform the galaxy.
* 2516 - Founding of the Brotherhood of Darkness and uniting of the Sith enclaves under one name, thus giving the Jedi and the Republic a single taget.
* 2517 - Founding of the Army of Light, and begin of the Ruusan Campaign.
* 2522 - Seventh Battle of Ruusan and the destruction of both Army and Brotherhood by Darth Bane.
* 2522 - Ruusan Reformation

In 2522 with the battle of Ruusan, the battered galaxy is united under one banner. Now, is the start of the Republic Golden Age. Here a couple relevant dates for the last 1000 years of the republic.

* 2784 - In the wake of Mandalore refusing to join the Republic, and fearing another Mandalorian war; the Republic glasses Mandalore.
* 2818 - The Outer Expansion Zone is establisched
* 3032 - Corporate Sector Authority is founded
* 3170 - The Trade Federation is created
* 3201 - Ord Cestus is rediscovered and made a Prison Planet
* 3210 - Corellia switches from an Absolute monarchy to a constitutional one
* 3322 - Memory wipes on droids become common practice
* 3372 - The corellian monarchy is overthrown by a allegiance of corporations, installing instead a Diktator.
* 3439 - The Galactic Games are Instituted
* 3452 - The Kira Run is founded
* 3456 - Shmi Skywalker is sold into slavery
* 3457 - Hutts take over Tatooine
* 3462 - The Mandalorian Civil War begins
* 3470 - Damask Holdings ceases operations
* 3470 - The Battle at Korda Six occurs
* 3478 - The Katana Fleet is lost
* 3478 - The Great Clan Wars erupt on Mandalore
* 3478 - The Stark Hyperspace war occurs
* 3478 - The Battle of Galidraan
* 3481 - Anakin Skywalker is born
* 3487 - The Great ReSynchronisation occurs.

From this point, technically the official Republic Calendar is the resynchronization, factually it doesn't catch on.

* 3 (3487 AC) The Invasion of Naboo occurs
* 11 (3498 AC) The Confederation of Independant System is founded
* 13 (3500 AC) The Clone Wars Begin
* 16 (3503 AC) The Republic is destroyed and replaced with the Sith Empire, and the Jedi Order is decimated in Order 66