19 BBY

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## Facts and statistics

### Conflicts

* Campaigns of Saw Gerrera's Partisans
* Clone Wars
	+ Outer Rim Sieges
	+ Second occupation of Geonosis
* Great Jedi Purge
* Mandalorian Civil War

### Events

* Anakin Skywalker becomes the apprentice of Darth Sidious
* The Great Jedi Purge begins with Order 66
* Transformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire
* The mission to Mustafar results in the end of the Clone Wars

The following events took place in the year 19 BBY, also known as 3258 LY according to the Lothal Calendar and year 7958 in the C.R.C. calendar.

## Events

* Maul's criminal alliance Shadow Collective is founded, initially dissolved, and later reformed.
* Despite being found innocent at her trial for the bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar, the real culprit being Barriss Offee, Ahsoka Tano leaves the Jedi Order.
* Order 66 prematurely activates for clone trooper Tup during the Battle of Ringo Vinda, leading ARC trooper Fives to discover the control chips and learn how they can force clone troopers to eliminate the Jedi without question. However, the ARC trooper is killed by members of the Coruscant Guard before he can properly warn his fellow clones and the Jedi.
* After a genocidal attack on Mahranee, the Jedi High Council reluctantly approves a plan to assassinate Count Dooku, sending Jedi Master Quinlan Vos on an undercover operation to team up with Dooku's former assassin Asajj Ventress for the job.
* Mother Talzin is killed by General Grievous during the Second Battle of Dathomir.
* The Siege of Mandalore begins. Ahsoka Tano, working with Lady Bo-Katan Kryze and the Mandalore resistance, asks Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi for help. Skywalker splits the 501st Legion and gives Tano a new division, including the 332nd Company, and makes Tano an advisor.
* Following a duel, Count Dooku is decapitated by Anakin Skywalker aboard the *Invisible Hand*. Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi manage to rescue Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine from the *Invisible Hand.*
* Palpatine reveals to Skywalker that he is a Dark Lord of the Sith.
* General Grievous is slain by Kenobi on Utapau.
* Skywalker informs Mace Windu of Chancellor Palpatine's revelation. Windu, Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin attempt to arrest Palpatine after learning that he is a Sith Lord, but fail and are killed by Sidious with assistance from the manipulated Anakin Skywalker. Skywalker subsequently becomes Darth Vader, Sidious's new apprentice.
* The 501st Legion led by Darth Vader besiege the Jedi Temple.
* The Great Jedi Purge begins with Order 66.
* Jedi Knight Del Morrigan and his Padawan Kenan Verso escape the clone troopers of the 401st Division during Order 66 and go into hiding on Batuu.
* After learning of Dooku's death, the Sith Lord Darth Midous confronts Palpatine in the Senate Building.
* The Galactic Empire is founded by the self-anointed Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, replacing the Galactic Republic and putting the galaxy directly under the control of the Sith.
* The Galactic Senate is transformed into the Imperial Senate.
* Darth Vader slaughters the Executive Separatist Council on Mustafar and remotely deactivates the Separatist Droid Army, dissolving the Confederacy of Independent Systems and ending the Clone Wars.
* Yoda and Darth Sidious duel in the Senate Building.
* Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader duel on Mustafar. After losing his remaining organic limbs in the duel, Vader is sealed into a cybernetic suit of armor.
* Padmé Amidala, the secret wife of Anakin Skywalker, dies on Polis Massa after giving birth to their children, Luke and Leia. Her funeral is held on Naboo.
* Darth Midous escapes from Imperial custody in the Jedi Temple with the help of the fallen Jedi Temple Guard Yondo Patton.
* Fearing that Anakin's children will be hunted down because they could pose a threat to the Emperor, the Jedi Masters Yoda and Kenobi, as well as Senator Bail Organa, agree to hide the whereabouts of the Skywalker twins. As a result, the House of Organa, the royal family of Alderaan, adopts Leia, while the Lars family of Tatooine takes in Luke.
* Yoda goes into a self-imposed exile on Dagobah, while Kenobi goes to live as a hermit on Tatooine watching over Luke Skywalker.
* After the crash of the *Tribunal* as a result of onboard fighting caused by the issuance of Order 66, as well as the escape of Maul, Ahsoka Tano and Rex go into hiding in the Outer Rim to escape the Empire, with Tano faking her death by abandoning her lightsabers at the crash site.
* Saw Gerrera forms his rebel cell, the Partisans, on Onderon.
* Padawan Odessa Parfel is captured by the Galactic Empire and held prisoner in the Inquisitorius Headquarters.
* With the fall of the Republic, the galaxy enters a period known as the "Dark Times."
* Tipoca City is destroyed by the Empire.
* The Hidden Path is formed.

## Battles

**Fall of the Republic/Clone Wars**:

* Takeover of Mandalore
* Battle of Mandalore
* Bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar
* Escape from the Republic military base
* Capture of Ahsoka Tano
* Duel at the Jedi Temple
* Battle of Ringo Vinda
* Escape from Tipoca City
* Escape from the Grand Republic Medical Facility
* Mission to Level 1325
* Mission to Scipio
* Battle of Scipio
* Mission to Oba Diah
* Mission to Moraband
* Invasion of Utapau
* Atrocity on Mahranee
* Second Battle of Dathomir
* Second battle of Christophsis
* Battle of Anaxes
* Mission to Skako Minor
* Battle of Yerbana
* Battle of Falleen
* Battle of Coruscant
* Siege of Mandalore
* Battle of Abrion Major
* Battle of Kashyyyk
* Mission to Level 1312
* Battle of Utapau
* Mygeeto Campaign
* Battle of Felucia
* Battle of Cato Neimoidia
* Battle of Kaller
* Duel in Palpatine's office

**Great Jedi Purge/Imperial Era**:

* Siege of the Jedi Temple
* Duel in the Senate Building
* Skirmish aboard the *Tribunal*
* Skirmish aboard the *Albedo Brave*
* Skirmish on Zeffo
* Mission to Mustafar
* Duel on Mustafar
* Duel in the Galactic Senate
* Escape from the Jedi Temple
* Hunt for Jocasta Nu
* Attack on Kamino

## Births

* Ezra Bridger on Lothal.
* On Polis Massa
	+ Luke Skywalker
	+ Leia Skywalker

## Deaths

* Adi Gallia on Florrum.
* Xomit Grunseit on Mustafar.
* Oruba on Nal Hutta.
* Pre Vizsla during the Takeover of Mandalore.
* During the Battle of Mandalore
	+ Satine Kryze
	+ Savage Opress
* During the Battle of Ringo Vinda
	+ Tiplar
	+ Kraken (later rebuilt)
* Tup on Kamino.
* Fives during the mission to Level 1325.
* During the Battle of Scipio
	+ Thorn
	+ Bec Lawise
	+ Rush Clovis
* On Oba Diah
	+ Silman
	+ Lom Pyke
* Tiplee on Vizsla Keep 09.
* Talzin on Dathomir.
* Asajj Ventress on Christophsis.
* Trench during the Battle of Anaxes.
* During the Siege of Mandalore
	+ Vaughn
	+ Almec
* Dooku on the *Invisible Hand.*
* During the Battle of Abrion Major
	+ Mok Tuka
	+ TA-20
	+ TB-33
	+ Mak
	+ Torch
	+ Stinger
	+ R4-P11
* Gree on Kashyyyk.
* Kupa Selto during the mission to Level 1312.

* During Order 66
	+ Ran-Bo Nori on Abrion Major
	+ Ria-Asan-Jiar on Coruscant
	+ Ki-Adi-Mundi on Mygeeto
	+ Aayla Secura on Felucia
	+ Plo Koon on Cato Neimoidia
	+ Stass Allie on Saleucami
	+ Depa Billaba on Kaller
	+ Chiata on Zeffo
	+ Marseph on Zeffo
	+ Jaro Tapal on the *Albedo Brave*
* During the duel in Palpatine's office
	+ Agen Kolar
	+ Saesee Tiin
	+ Kit Fisto
	+ Mace Windu
* Jesse during the skirmish aboard the *Tribunal*.
* During the Siege of the Jedi Temple
	+ Shaak Ti
	+ Cin Drallig
* During the mission to Mustafar
	+ Nank Tun
	+ Denaria Kee
	+ Passel Argente
	+ Po Nudo
	+ Poggle the Lesser
	+ Rute Gunnay
	+ San Hill
	+ Shu Mai
	+ Meeko Shrike
	+ Tikkes
	+ Rune Haako
	+ Wat Tambor
	+ Nute Gunray
* Padmé Amidala on Polis Massa.
* During the Hunt for Jocasta Nu
	+ Fox
	+ Jocasta Nu

## Appearances

* *Star Wars: Fall of the Republic* (First appearance)
* *Star Wars: Rise of the Rebellion* (In flashback(s))