The dates are given by a number followed by a - or + sign. The ones with the 1 sign are that many years before Star Wars, episode 4: A New Hope. The plus signs are that many years after ANH. This information has been taken from the movies, books, comics, the roleplaying game and lots of other stuff...it is by no means complete, and anyone that tells you they have a complete Star Wars timeline is lying or omniscient...

Pre-Rebublic Era
  • An unknown alien race builds Centerpoint Station.
  • A group of planets is moved from unknown areas by the station to what will later be known as the Corellian System.
  • The planets -- Corellia, Selonia, Drall, Talus and Tralus -- contain huge planetary repulsors used to move the planets into their orbits.

    25,000 -
  • The hyper-drive is invented and comes into use.
  • Xim the Despot rules over a vast region of space before being overthrown by the group led by Kossak the Hutt.
  • The Old Republic, which is the first galaxy-wide government, is formed.
  • The Order of Jedi Knights begins, presumably on the planet Ossus.
  • It is a period of galactic peace and expansion of the Rupublic.

    25,000-20,000 -
  • Many of the galaxy's first starship manufacturing companies are founded, including Alderaan Royal Engineers, Core Galaxy Systems, Corellian Engineering Corporation and Rendili StarDrive.

    5,000 -
  • Ood Bnar of the Neti race is born, possibly on the planet Myrkr.
  • Naga Sadow rules as Dark Lord of the Sith
  • The Golden Age of the Sith Empire

    4,990 -
  • Fall of the Sith Empire
  • Naga Sadow leads the Sith into hiding on Yavin IV.

    4,600 -
  • Odan-Urr becomes president over the Jedi assembly.

    4,400 -
  • Freedon Nadd, a young Jedi Knight turned to the evil ways of the Sith, comes to power on Onderon.

    4,350 -
  • The Beast Wars of Onderon begin.

    4,068 - -Queen Amanoa of Onderon is born.

    4,016 -
  • Princess Galia of Onderon is born.

    4,002 -
  • Republic explorers make contact with Onderon.

    4,000 -
  • The planet Argazda revolts against the Old Republic.
  • Provisional Governor Myrial begins conquering other worlds in the Kanz sector, including Lorrd.
  • Jedi Knights, including Ulic Qel-Droma, intercede in the Beast Wars of Onderon.
  • Andur Sunrider dies.

    3,998 -
  • The Freedon Nadd uprising

    3991 -
  • Exar Kun becomes a dark Lord of the Sith.
  • The trial of Ulic Qel-Droma.
  • The Sith War and destruction of the Cron system.

    3,700 -
  • The Jedi Knights and the Old Republic bring an end to the Kanz Disorders on the planet Argazda.

    3,000 -
  • The Corellia StarDrive company is bought by the Corellian Engineering Corporation.
  • The Invincible-class Dreadnaught starship is introduced by the Old Republic.

    2,000 -
  • Incom Industries, a major starship and vehicle manufacturer, is founded on the planet Fresia.

    989 -
  • The inhabitants of the planet Khomm begin their long tradition of cloning.

    896 -
  • Yoda, the Jedi Master, is born. Location unknown.

    600 -
  • Jabba the Hutt is born on Nal Hutta.
  • The Dulok oracle, Murgoob, is born on the forest moon of Endor.

    500 - -Starship building corporations Alderaan Royal Engineers, Core Galaxy Systems and Rendili StarDrive are bought out by Kuat Drive Yards.

    400 -
  • Jedi teaching vessel Ch'unthor crashes on Dathomir.
  • Yoda and several Jedi are repelled by the Witches of Dathomir while attempting to recover the Ch'unthor.

    385 -
  • Jedi Master Ikrit travels to Yavin 4 to research the Massassi people and discovers the Golden Globe, in which the spirits of Massassi children were trapped millenia ago by Exar Kun.

    280 -
  • Berethron Solo introduces democracy to the Corellian Empire.

    200 -
  • Chewbacca the Wookiee is born on the planet Kashyyyk.
  • The Republic establishes a military academy on the planet Carida.

    192 -
  • A plague destroys the inhabitants of the planet Fere, known for a long history of starship manufacturing.

    150 -
  • Chewbacca leaves Kashyyyk to explore the galaxy.

    130 -
  • Jorus C'Boath is born on Bortras in the Reithcas sector.

    112 -
  • C3-PO is created at Cybot Galactia Corporation. R2-D2 is activated by Industrial Automaton, the two are united.

    100 -
  • The creation of the Ammuud Code ends centuries of clan warfare on the planet Ammuud.

    82 -
  • Doman Beruss is born on Illodia. He will later become a New Republic Senator.

    62 -
  • Later on a Jedi Knight and Republic General, Obi-Wan Kenobi is born at an unknown location.

    56 -
  • The infamous Dalla Solo aka Dalla Suul aka Dalla the Black is born to Korol Solo.

    48 -
  • Mon Mothma is born on Chandrila.

    44 -
  • The Katana fleet of Dreadnaught star cruisers disappears into hyperspace and is missing for nearly fifty years.

    42 -
  • Anakin Skywalker is born.

    35 -
  • Palpatine begins studying the Dark Side of the Force secretly, with the help of an unknown Dark Jedi Master.
  • Alderaan institutes its "no weapons" policy. The weapons are put in a giant freighter Another Chance, protected by three other warships, and jumps through hyperspace permanently unless Alderaan's Council of Elders calls upon it, should they need it.
  • Thrackan Sal-Solo is born on Corellia.

    32 -
  • The Clone Wars begin.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi serves under Bail Organa of Alderaan.
  • Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker meet and become friends.
  • Clonemasters defeated by Old Republic and Jedi Knights.
  • The end of the Clone Wars.

    31 -
  • Lando Calrissian is born. Location unknown.

    29 -
  • Han Solo is born somewhere in the Correlian star system.

    27 -
  • Han Solo, nearly 3 years old and an orphan, is rescued from the streets of Corellia by pirate Captain Garris Shrike.

    22 -
  • The 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.
  • Anakin Skywalker meets Palpatine, and is turned to the Dark Side by him. Palpatine proclaims Anakin to be Darth Vader.
  • As Ben Kenobi tries to turn Vader back to the Light, they start to duel, which leads to Vaders fall into the molten pit. Kenobi presumes Vader dead, but is rescued by Palpatine, saved in a bacta tank and fitted with a a suit of black armor and a life support system.

    20 -
  • Palpatine seizes control of the Republic's military and declares emergency martial law.
  • Palpatine introduces his New Order and declares himself emperor.
  • Palpatine names his new regime the Galactic Empire.
  • Darth Vader begins to hunt down and destroy the Jedi, under Palpatines command.
  • Jedi Knights Callista and Geith are killed attempting to disarm the weapons platform Eye of Palpatine.
  • Callista manages to store her essence in the Eye of Palpatine's computer system.

    19 -
  • Captain Tarkin pilots a shuttle which, under Imperial orders, lands on a group of protestors. The incident is known as the Ghorman Massacre, demonstrating the ultimate power of the New Order.
  • Darth Vader becomes Supreme Comander of the Imperial Forces.
  • Captured Jedi Master Ashka Boda surrenders Master Bodo Baas's Holocron to the Emperor, himself; who analyzes it, discovering immortality via cloning.
  • Palpatine starts his cloning center on Byss.

    18 -
  • Mon Mothma goes into hiding.
  • Garm Bel-Iblis gives a speech at a Corellian school. Han Solo, a young student, asks many questions that impress Bel-Iblis. Bel-Iblis keeps careful watch over Solo without his knowledge through the coming years. Shortly after the speech, Garm's family is arrested and killed in front of his eyes, for treason against the Empire, on Anchron.
  • He escapes, calling together Mon Mothma and Bail Organa. The Corellian Treaty brings various other Rebel factions together to form the Rebel Alliance for the Preservation of the Republic.
  • Bel-Iblis goes into hiding, and begins a free-lance organization.
  • Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa born on Alderaan. They are taken to Dagobah by Obi-Wan Kenobi for consultation with Yoda.
  • Luke is sent to Tatooine, where Owen Lars, Kenobi's brother, and his wife Beru Lars take care of him as his 'uncle' and 'aunt'. The two have a falling out, and Kenobi moves to the Dune Sea, where he can keep an eye on Luke.
  • Leia is taken back to Alderaan, where she is taken care of by Bail Organa.
  • Beginning of the Galactic Civil War.
  • A collective of Jedi take refuge from the Great Purge on Belsavis.
  • Luke's friend, Biggs Darklighter, is born on Tatooine.

    17 -
  • Wedge Antilles born on Corellia.
  • The Empire begins their enslavement of Wookiees; All free Wookiees have bounties put on their heads. The Empire hires Trandoshans to capture the remaining ones.

    15 -
  • Qwi Xux, Maw Scientist, is born on Omwat.

    13 -
  • Zeth Durron is born on the Deyer Colony in the Anoat System.

    12 -
  • On the planet Jubilar, Han Solo is arrested for cheating at cards (a felony on that world). He is forced to fight three other men in the All-Human Free-For-All. After the fight, Solo is the last man standing.
  • Boba Fett kills Hallolar Voors on the planet Jubilar. He had been hired by Jabba the Hutt to kill Voors.

    11 -
  • Han Solo and Dengar participate in an illegal swoop race through the crystal swamps of Agrilat.
  • Solo causes Dengar to crash, severely injuring Dengar.
  • He is later rehabilitated by the Empire and made into an assassin. He eventually becomes a bounty hunter.

    10 -
  • The droids C-3PO and R2-D2 enter the service of the Pitareeze family on Kalarbra.
  • Han Solo enters the Imperial Academy.

    9 -
  • Lando Calrissian obtains the Millineum Falcon in a Sabbac game.

    8 -
  • Han Solo graduates from the Imperial Academy with Honors.
  • He sympathetically frees an enslaved Wookiee, Chewbacca, who gives Han his life-debt. Solo is court-martialed and is dishonorably discharged from the Navy.

    7 -
  • Kyp Durron is born on the Deyer Colony in the Anoat System.

    6 -
  • Lando Calrissian is on Taanab when Norulackian pirates seasonally raid the planet. Part for revenge on the pirates, and part on a bet, Lando leads Taanab farmers in the Battle of Taanab, which they win.
  • Lando loses the Millineum Falcon to Han Solo in a hot game of sabacc.
  • A city on the planet Falleen is totally wiped out by the Empire after a biological weapon escapes quarantine from a laboratory established by Darth Vader.
  • Two hundred thousand Falleen are killed in the "sterilization," which saves the rest of the planet's populace.

    5 -
  • The Empire makes contact with the planet Mons Calamari, and Ackbar is taken to be Tarkin's personal slave.

    4 -
  • Han Solo and Chewbacca free slaves from a Zygerrian slave ship near Janodral Mizar.
  • Solo gives the ship and its cargo to the newly-freed slaves.

    3 -
  • Moff Tarkin proposes the Death Star to the Emperor.
  • The Emperor makes Tarkin the first Grand Moff and gives him access to all the resources he would need for the station.
  • Bevel Lemelisk and his team of top notch scientists design the Death Star.
  • The Maw Installation is built.

    2 -
  • Construction of the Death Star begins in orbit above Despayre, a penal colony in the remote Horuz system.
  • Princess Leia Organa becomes the youngest Senator ever to represent Alderaan.
  • Jagged and Zena Antilles are killed at their fueling depot in outer Gus Treta in the Corellian Sector after pirate captain Loka Hask ignites part of the station in an attempt to escape from the Corellian Security Force. They are survived by their son, Wedge.
  • Corellian smuggler Booster Terrik is arrested by Corellian Security Force officer Hal Horn. Terrik is sentenced to five years imprisonment on Kessel.

    1 -
  • Enroute to the Death Star in his shuttle, Grand Moff Tarkin is intercepted by elite rebel assassins; he is rescued in time by Admiral Motti's Star Destroyer, but his Calamarian servant Ackbar is left behind.
  • Han Solo dumps a cargo of Glitterstim (spice) during a Kessel run and is unable to pay back his employer, Jabba the Hutt.
  • Incom starfighter designers with rebel sympathies defect to the Alliance, bringing with them all plans and prototypes for the T-65 X-Wing.
  • Biggs Darklighter enrolls in the Academy.

    0 (A New Hope)
  • Tarkin makes a last visit to the Maw Instalation. He tells his scientists to design somethig worse that the Death Star.
  • The Death Star becomes opperational and makes it's first target the penal colony of Despayre.
  • Biggs Darklighter graduates from the Raithal Academy, one year ahead of schedule, with honors, and becomes an officer on the Rand Ecliptic. He visits Luke shortly before joining the Rebellion.
  • Emperor Palpatine dissolves the Imperial Senate.
  • Owen and Beru Lars are killed.
  • Luke Skywalker joins the rebellion.
  • Alderaan gets destroyed.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi killed by Darth Vader.
  • Biggs Darklighter killed in the Battle of Yavin.
  • The first Death Star destroyed at the Battle of Yavin.
  • Tarkin dies with the Death Star.
  • Qorl, a TIE-Fighter pilot, crashes down to Yavin IV.
  • Vader slowly returns to the Emperor, humbled, in his special TIE-Fighter equipped with a hyperdrive. In anger, Palpatine nearly kills Vader.
  • Palpatine visits Korriban for what will be the last time.

    1 +
  • Fearing for his life, Bevel Lemelisk flees the Empire. He is found and the Emperor asks him to design another Death Star. Lemelisk removes the flaw of the first Death Star, improves the superlaser, and asks the Emperor for a place to begin construction. The moon of Endor is chosen.
  • Stormtroopers arrest the Duron family. Kyp Duron and his parents are sent to the spice mines of Kessel, Zeth Duron is sent to the Imperial Military Training Acadamy on Caridia.
  • Darth Vader starts construction on his Super Star Destroyer, The Executor.
  • Rebels change bases from Yavin IV to Hoth. The Hoth Rebel Base is laid out with six markers to make it easier to scout the desolate terrain.
  • Han Solo is captured by bounty hunters Boba Fett and Bossk on Ord Mantell, but escapes.
  • Ackbar joins the rebellion. Commander Ackbar recruits the insectoid Verpine to join the rebellion. Ackbar aids the Verpine in developing the B-Wing starfighter.
  • Grand Admiral Thrawn departs for the last time to the Unknown Regions.

    3 +
  • Former Imperial Navy pilot Tycho Celchu joins the Rebel Alliance.
  • A Rebel Alliance convoy on the way to Hoth is attacked at Derra IV by an Imperial squadron. All personnel are killed, including Commander Narra, commander of Red Squadron.
  • Luke takes over as commander of Red Squadron and renames it Rouge Squadron.
  • Booster Terrik is released from the Imperal prison on Kessel after serving a five-year sentence for smuggling.
  • The Battle of Hoth.
  • Luke Skywalker trains under Yoda, Jedi Master.
  • Han Solo is captured by Boba Fett and frozen in carbonite.
  • Luke Skywalker confronts Vader, losing his hand in combat.
  • Prince Xizor, leader of the criminal organization Black Sun and rival of Darth Vader, launches his plans to overtake the Empire and destroy the Rebellion.
  • Boba Fett is temporarily delayed in delivering Han Solo to Jabba by Bossk, Zuckuss, and 4-LOM, who attempt to steal Solo.
  • Dash Rendar is hired to aid the Rebellion in Solo's absence.
  • Black Sun and Xizor are destroyed by Vader, but not before Xizor convinces the Emperor to reveal the second Death Star to the Bothans, which forms the Emperor's strategy for the Battle of Endor.
  • Rendar is killed in a hyperspace accident.

    4 +
  • Chewbacca, Luke, Leia, Lando, C-3P0, and R2D2 help Han escape from Jabba's Palace, on Tatooine.
  • Crime kingpin Jabba the Hutt killed by Princess Leia.
  • Yoda, Jedi Master dies.
  • Emperor Palpatine killed on Second Death Star. Second Death Star destroyed at the Battle of Endor.
  • Vader turned back from the Dark Side of the Force by his son, Luke Skywalker.
  • Imperial Fleet in Disarray.
  • Star Destroyer Chimaera escapes under the command of Captain Pellaeon.
  • Emperor Palpatine's life-essence escapes to Byss.
  • Lowbacca born on Kashyyyk.
  • The Battle of Bakura. First sightings of the Ssi-Ruuk. New Republic and Imperial forces of the planet Bakura fight together against the Ssi-Rukk. Bakura defects to the New Republic.
  • The Imperial starship repair yard at N'zoth, Black 15, is attacked by the Yevethan underground. Nil Spaar seizes control of the Imperial "Black Fleet" by order of the viceroy of the Yevetha Protectorate.
  • Sate Pestage forms a government on Coruscant in the abscece of the Emperor.
  • Rogue Squadron pilot Tycho Celchu infiltrates Coruscant in a stolen Imperial TIE Fighter. Months later he will escape imprisonment to return to the squadron.

    5 +
  • The Senate Interplanetary Intelligence Network (SPIN) is created by New Republic leaders.
  • Ysanne Isard, director of Imperial Intelligence, organizes a coup on Coruscant.
  • Palpatine's clone gains sentience on Byss.
  • Moruth Doole takes over Kessel.

    6 +
  • Tycho Celchu returns to Rogue Squadron. Rogue Squadron takes Imperial stronghold of Blackmoon. Rogue Squadron inserts some of Black Sun's worst members into Coruscant. Rogue Squadron infiltrates Coruscant. Coruscant is won, and the Rebel Alliance moves in to make Coruscant their seat of power.
  • A New Republic is declared.
  • Palpatines life-essence reforms in the clone labs on Byss.

    7 +
  • Coruscant becomes the capitol of the New Republic.
  • Zekk is born on the planet Ennth.

    8 +
  • New Republic forces lead by General Han Solo battle the Imperial Warlord Zsinj.
  • Grand Admiral Thrawn returns from the Unknown regions and finds the fleet under Pellaeon, and takes over.
  • Thrawn finds Spaarti Cloning Cylinders on Wayland.
  • Imperial fleet begins reassembling.
  • Preparations begin on Byss for Palpatine's return to power.
  • Han Solo competes with Prince Isolder of Happes, for the hand of Princess Leia. Han kidnaps Leia to Dathomir, a planet he won in a game of Sabbac.
  • Luke and Prince Isolder leave to Dathomir to rescue Leia. Luke and Isolder helped by the Witches of Dathomir. Luke finds the Chu'unthor. The Nightsisters of Dathomir attack the Witches. Luke, Isolder, Han and Leia all help to defeat the Nightsisters.
  • Warlord Zinj and his fleet are destroyed in the insuing battle.
  • Republic Engineering Corp. is founded.
  • Han Solo and Leia Organa are married on Coruscant.
  • The crashed Jedi ship Ch'unthor is recovered.
  • Pash Cracken leads New Republic starfighters against Imperial forces at Xyquine.

    9 +
  • Jacen and Jaina Solo born.
  • Thrawn makes his offensive.
  • Luke is captured by Mara Jade.
  • Battle of Sluis Van.
  • Admiral Ackbar is arrested.
  • Empire and New Republic race to find the lost Katana Fleet.
  • Ackbar released.
  • C'baoth killed Mount Tantiss.
  • Pellaeon and fleet flee to the Core.
  • The Smugglers Aliance is formed.
  • FreiTek, Inc. introduces the E-Wing starfighter.

    10 +
  • Remnants of the Empire rally to make lightning strikes on Republic-held space.
  • Coruscant falls within days of Thrawns death.
  • New Republic moves to Da Soocha V, where it makes new feild headquarters.
  • Imperial Civil War.
  • The Emperor starts his rise to power.
  • The Battle of Calamari.
  • Luke Skywalker finds the Dark Jedi Kam Solusar in the derelict space city of Nespis VIII and helps him turn away from the dark side of the Force.
  • The Rebel base on the fifth moon of Da Soocha is destroyed by Imperial forces.
  • Anakin Solo is born and place in hiding with Winter.
  • The Emperor is defeated.

    11 +
  • Han and Chewbacca are captured and put to work in the spice mines of Kessel.
  • Luke opens his Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, and goes in search of students.
  • Kyp Duron a promising student turns to the ways of the Sith.
  • Maw Installation found, the Sun-Crusher is released.
  • Luke Skywalker is defeated by Kyp Duron and the essence of Exar-Kun, Luke exists only as his life-essence.
  • Kyp Duron is brought back from the Dark Side.
  • The Battle of the Maw.
  • Luke is saved by his nephew and neice, and his students.
  • Kyp Duron flys the Sun Crusher into the Maw but escapes in a message pod before entering the Maw.

    12 +
  • The weapons platform Eye of Palpatine is destroyed.

    13 +
  • Brakiss enters Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. It is not known that he is an Imperial spy.

    14 +
  • Jacen, Jaina, and Anikin Solo kidnapped by Hethrir.
  • Hethrir trys to found the Empire Reborn.

    15 +
  • Luke Skywalker discovers Brakiss is a spy and tries to turn away from the dark side of the Force. He forces Brakiss to look at the darkness within himself. Frightened by what Luke has shown him, Brakiss flees Yavin IV.

    16 +
  • On the planet Ennth, the village of New Hopetown is destroyed in a volcanic eruption. One survivor is Zekk, a nine year old boy.
  • Zekk stows away onboard the cargo ship Lightning Rod and travels to Coruscant, where he lives with Peckhum, the ship's pilot.

    18 +
  • Thracken Sal-Solo takes credit for the Starbuster plot that strikes durig a trade summit on Corellia.
  • Planetary repulsors fond on Corellia, Sellonia, and Drall. System-wide interdiction feild and communications jamming.
  • Han, Leia, Mara, Chewie and the kids seperated.
  • Lando Calrissian in search for a wife, Luke is chaperoning with C-3P0 and R2-D2.
  • Thracken shot down over Drall by the kids.
  • Centerpoint Station is found to be the source of the Interdiction field, the communications jamming and the star-buster.
  • Gaerial Captison dies at the showdown at Centerpoint with the Triad ships.

    19 +
  • Boba Fett captures the Devaronian Labria, known as the Butcher of Montellian Serat. Labria is executed on the planet Devaron.
  • Boba Fett confronts Han Solo on Jubilar with the intent of killing him. The two enemies decide to let each other live.

    23 +
  • Jacen and Jaina Solo join Luke Skywalker's Jedi Acadamy on Yavin IV.
  • Lowbacca joins Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.
  • Jacen, Jaina, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka try to repair a downed TIE Fighter that was crashed in the forest. Qorl tries to take the children hostage, but succedes in capturing only Jacen and Jaina. Finishing all repairs on the TIE, Jacen and Jaina are rescued by Han Solo, Chewbacca, Lowbacca, and Tenel Ka.
  • Qorl escapes in the TIE with the hyperdrive that Jaina installed on it.