Star Wars: Timelines

Explore the complete history of Star Wars, from the era preceding the High Republic all the way to the First Order, with this impressive guide.

This book is a must-have for Star Wars enthusiasts, offering high-quality visual timelines that present key events, characters, and developments in chronological order, highlighting their significance.

Observe the pivotal conflicts that have shaped the galaxy over the years. Follow the journey of the Skywalker lightsaber through generations and witness the evolution of the famous TIE fighter across various periods. Trace the path of the Death Star plans over time and discover multiple detailed timelines that break down important battles.

Quickly grasp essential events organized by era and delve into the specifics to uncover major and minor occurrences, crucial dates, and intriguing insights, all arranged chronologically. Examine complex timelines on almost every page.

• ISBN 9780744060874 ; April 25 , 2023 ; DK ; US hardcover [2]
• ISBN 9780241543832 ; April 27 , 2023; DK; UK hardcover [3]
• ISBN 9780744090635 ; [8] June , 2023; Penguin Random House ; US exclusive edition [5]
• ISBN 9780744089035 ; November 7 , 2023; Penguin Random House; Spanish hardcover [9]

Amy Richau, one of the authors, considered her inclusion of the Ghorman Massacre in Timelines to be a "fancy" touch. She was later surprised when Star Wars: Andor provided backstory for the incident. According to previews on Amazon, Timelines originally placed the events of Episode IV A New Hope in 1 BBY. However, later previews showed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as taking place in 1 BBY and A New Hope in "0" without specifying BBY or ABY.

Jason Fry only learned about the June 2023 expanded edition from a fan. After his wife bought him a copy, he was pleased to find that it included the Star Wars Galaxy Map.

• Timelines sets the founding of the Republic around 20,000 BBY. However, The Star Wars Book previously stated the Galactic Republic was founded in 25,000 BBY. [15] It also claims the Republic's formation was due to the advent of hyperspace travel, even though hyperspace travel was developed by at least 30,000 BBY. [16]
• According to Timelines, the destruction of the Shrine in the Depths on Coruscant and the building of the Jedi Temple occurred around 1032 BBY. However, Tarkin previously established that these events happened nearly five millennia before 14 BBY. The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations had previously established that the Jedi Temple was merely reclaimed from the Sith some 1,000 years ago during the Liberation of Coruscant. Therefore, the Jedi Temple must have been already built before the end of the Jedi-Sith War .

• Timelines places the flashbacks in The High Republic Adventures: Quest of the Jedi in 382 BBY. However, these events cannot occur later than approximately 482 BBY. [17]
• Timelines indicates that the events of The High Republic Adventures 1 happen at the same time as The High Republic: Light of the Jedi. However, author Daniel José Older had previously said the comic takes place after the novel. [18] Nevertheless, the placement given in Timelines matches the opening crawl of Adventures 1: the crawl establishes the issue is set before the dedication of the Starlight Beacon , [19] which is depicted at the end of Light of the Jedi . [20] Therefore, Adventures 1 must occur after the Nihil begin to track the Emergences in Light of the Jedi but before its ending, just as it is placed in Timelines .
• Timelines positions the Battle of Takodana after the Battle at Gravity's Heart. Due to Nan's presence at a Nihil meeting at the beginning of The High Republic: The Edge of Balance, Vol. 2, where the Takodana attack is mentioned, [21] the attack must occur before Nan leaves the Nihil to work for the Graf family. Given that Nan was pressured to work for the Graf family after the Battle at Gravity's Heart, and she is said to have spent months away from the Nihil afterward, [22] the placement is impossible.
• Although a promotional video for The Vow of Silver Dawn places it around 82 BBY, [23] Star Wars: Timelines later placed it in 200 BBY. As this article assumes Timelines is correct due to it being more recent and not contradicting anything in the text.

• Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier dates the B'ankora homeworld cataclysm and the reign of Supreme Chancellor Chasen Piian to 131 BBY, [24] but Timelines places the event in 1300 BBY. In the novel Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, the B'ankora had lived in the B'ankor Refuge "for more than fifty generations" and had planted a copse of gargantuan trees "centuries earlier" by the time of the novel. Because 1300 BBY lines up with what is established in Catalyst , this article assumes Timelines is correct.
• Timelines dates Sheev Palpatine's birth to 84 BBY, overriding Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle! [25] and Star Wars Jedi Master Magazine 1, [26] which both placed his birth in 82 BBY.
• Timelines places the construction of the Millennium Falcon around 56 BBY, but Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 22 and Star Wars 100 Objects placed its construction in 60 BBY.
• Timelines dates the Mandalorian Civil War and Obi-Wan Kenobi's first encounter with Satine Kryze to approximately 42 BBY. By doing so, it dates those events to occur before the events of the novel Padawan, which it dates to 41 BBY. However, Padawan depicts Kenobi's first ever mission, [27] meaning his mission to Mandalore cannot occur before it. Padawan author Kiersten White also has outright said the events of Padawan occur before Kenobi met Kryze. [28]

• Timelines dates the events of Age of Republic - Obi-Wan Kenobi 1 to around 28 BBY, placing it after Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker's mission to Carnelion IV, which is placed in 29 BBY. However, Age of Republic - Obi-Wan Kenobi 1 occurs early in Anakin Skywalker's apprenticeship under Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the comic, both Kenobi and Skywalker are unsure about the Padawan joining field missions, with dialogue suggesting the mission to Dallenor is Skywalker's first formal field mission with his master. The "Anakin Skywalker" issue of Star Wars Encyclopedia confirms this. [29] Therefore, Obi-Wan and Anakin must occur after Age of Republic - Obi-Wan Kenobi 1 because it features Skywalker's first mission.
• Timelines states that the events of Age of Republic - Anakin Skywalker 1 happen before those of "Shadow of Malevolence," which depicts the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula. Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 19 states that the first use of BTL-B Y-wing starfighter/bombers was during that battle. [30] However, Age of Republic - Anakin Skywalker features BTL-B Y-wings in action at the Battle of Corvair. [31] As Timelines is the more recent source, this article assumes Build the Millennium Falcon 19 is incorrect.
• Timelines dates the meeting of the Strategic Advisory Cell where Gubacher presented the Death Star plans to around 22 BBY. However, Catalyst establishes that the meeting took place after the Second Battle of Geonosis, which Timelines and other sources place in 21 BBY, making the 22 BBY placement of the meeting incorrect.
• Timelines places the events of Dark Disciple to begin in 20 BBY, implying Ventress' role in "To Catch a Jedi" and "The Wrong Jedi" occurs after the novel's start. Both of those episodes are dated to 19 BBY. However, Ventress only loses her red lightsabers in those episodes, forcing her to use a yellow lightsaber in the novel. If the 20 BBY placement is a retcon due to the novel’s time gaps, then the placement of the short story “ Kindred Spirits ” in 19 BBY would be incorrect, as “Kindred Spirits” takes place shortly before the novel. Either the placement of the novel or the short story is incorrect.
• Timelines incorrectly places the flashback events of Halcyon Legacy 3, which feature Ventress as an assassin for Count Dooku, to occur after the Battle of Sullust, where she was betrayed and abandoned by Dooku.

• Timelines states that in 19 BBY, Darth Sidious ordered Darth Vader to lure Jocasta Nu to the Jedi temple on Coruscant and capture her. This refers to the events of Darth Vader (2017) 7, but in that issue, Sidious only tells Vader to find her and save her life. [32]
• According to Timelines, the Droid Gotra was formed around 18 BBY. However, the Coruscant reckoning calendar dating provided by Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious narrows down its formation to 19 BBY. [33]
• Timelines places the events of Kanan 3 in 18 BBY. However, the issue's events overlap with those of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, [34] placing it in 19 BBY instead.
• Timelines dates Galen Erso's recruitment to Project Celestial Power to 18 BBY, overriding Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide's placement of 19 BBY. [35]
• Timelines dates Darth Vader Annual 2 to both 18 BBY and 17 BBY on different pages. As 18 BBY aligns with Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, [36] the 17 BBY placement is impossible.
• Timelines dates the series Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space to 18 BBY and shows Wilhuff Tarkin beginning his command of Sentinel Base, which slightly conflicts with the novel Tarkin, set in 14 BBY, which states he served at Sentinel Base for only three years.
• Timelines dates "Orientation" to around 14 BBY. However, the story occurs concurrently with Lords of the Sith, which Timelines specifically places in 14 BBY.
• Timelines dates "Mercy Mission" to around 14 BBY. However, the story itself dates to 13 BBY. [37]

• According to Timelines, the start of the novel Thrawn is set in 14 BBY. Despite fan theories suggesting an earlier start date of around 16 BBY [38] or approximately 15 BBY [39], the official stance was reinforced by Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide, which also specified 14 BBY. [40] However, the comic adaptation's first issue adds a layer of complexity, featuring clone troopers in Phase II armor serving the Empire,[41] which implies the story occurs during the early years of Imperial rule, not necessarily 14 BBY. In the novel Thrawn, Thrawn notes that he was only in his staged exile for a matter of months. As Timelines indicates, the events of Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, which portray the beginning of Thrawn's exile[42], transpire in 18 BBY, while his rescue from said exile happens in 14 BBY. Based on the events and timeline established within Thrawn,[43] the novel's timeline cannot span from 18 BBY to 2 BBY, a claim made by Timelines and suggested by Star Wars Rebels.[44]
• Timelines indicates that the events of Darth Vader (2017) 18 precede the events of the novel Tarkin in the 14 BBY timeline. However, Vader's knowledge of Wilhuff Tarkin's history is gained in the novel [45], suggesting the comic takes place after the novel, as Vader possesses that knowledge. [46] This is supported by Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition, which positions Vader 18 after Tarkin. [47]
• According to Timelines, the story of Beckett 1 takes place in 11 BBY, superseding the previous placement of approximately 10 BBY as seen in " Tobias Beckett and Other Characters of the Underworld ." [48]
• Timelines places the events of Star Wars (2015) 7 in 11 BBY. It then dates the events of Star Wars (2015) 15 and Star Wars (2015) 20 to the following year, 10 BBY. This dating was previously established in Star Wars Helmet Collection 66. However, as detailed here, issue 7 must occur in 9 BBY or 8 BBY, with Star Wars 15 and 20 both taking place in either 8 BBY or 7 BBY.
• Timelines places " Powered Down, Part 1 " and II in 9 BBY, a date that was previously established in Star Wars Helmet Collection 78. However, it also places the events of Choose Your Destiny: A Han & Chewie Adventure around 8 BBY. Since the "Powered Down" comics follow A Han & Chewie Adventure, this dating is impossible.
• Timelines dates the primary events of Star Wars: Kanan to 5 BBY, and the flashbacks shown in Kanan 4 to 18 BBY. However, Kanan 6 indicates a fourteen year difference between the flashbacks in Kanan 4 and the story's main events,[49] suggesting an error in either the 5 BBY or 18 BBY placement. Nevertheless, the present-day events of Kanan also occur fifteen years after Order 66,[50] which Timelines places in 4 BBY. This suggests that the present-day events of Kanan occur in 4 BBY, making the 18 BBY date for the flashbacks correct.
• Timelines dates " The Future of the Force " and " Legacy " to 3 BBY. Martin Fisher suggests the comic " Vulnerable Areas " occurs between these episodes,[51] while the booklet " Walkers and Ground Vehicles of the Empire and First Order " places it in 4 BBY. [52] Therefore, either the episode placement or the Star Wars Encyclopedia is incorrect.
• Timelines incorrectly lists Ezra Bridger's death as occurring in 3 BBY; this is clearly a mistake and should be Ephraim Bridger.
• Timelines places " Endangered, Part 1 " before Star Wars Rebels: Steps Into Shadow, but Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition and " Jabba the Hutt and Other Characters of the Underworld " had previously placed it afterward. [47] [53] Considering that "Endangered, Part 1" includes the Phantom, which is destroyed in Steps Into Shadow, Timelines' placement must be the accurate one.
• Timelines dates the disappearance of the Ordu Aspectu to 20,000 BBY, but they supposedly used the Great Temple of Yavin 4, which wasn't constructed until around 5000 BBY.

• Timelines originally placed the Liberation of Sullust in 4 ABY, but Battle of Jakku — Republic Under Siege 4 later pushed it back to 5 ABY. [54]
• According to Timelines, Chandrila became the New Republic's capital and the location for the New Republic Senate after the events of Aftermath. However, Aftermath depicts Chandrila as the Senate's home, suggesting it was already the capital. [55]
• Timelines initially dated the flashback sequences in " Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine " to approximately 5 ABY. Later, the " A Certain Point of View " section in Star Wars Insider 225 provided a precise date of 5 ABY. [56]
• Timelines describes Maldo Kreis as "an ice moon," while Star Wars: The Mandalorian Handbook clarified that it is a planet.
• Timelines lists the chronological order as: Life Day 1, Force Collector, " The Crimson Corsair and the Lost Treasure of Count Dooku ," and Star Wars Special: C-3PO 1. However, this order is incorrect according to the reasoning here. It also claims that Poe Dameron joined the Resistance in 33 ABY, which contradicts Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary and is inconsistent with his appearance in C-3PO 1.
• Timelines indicates that Star Wars: Poe Dameron commences in 34 ABY. However, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary previously placed it two years before Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, which would be 32 ABY. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary also establishes that Star Wars Resistance begins half a year before The Force Awakens, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge takes place half a year later. Given that both of these stories occur in 34 ABY,[57][58] the timeline for 34 ABY must be as follows: Resistance at the beginning of the year, The Force Awakens in the middle, and Galaxy's Edge at the end. Since Poe Dameron occurs before Resistance and shows a significant passage of time, it cannot also take place in 34 ABY. However, Poe Dameron 9 features the start of the alliance between Kanjiklub and the Guavian Death Gang due to their shared hatred of Han Solo,[59] a plot point that is resolved during The Force Awakens,[60] which does suggest a short passage of time by that point.
• Timelines erroneously places Poe's story in Before the Awakening after " Robot Resistance," but it should be before.
• Timelines states that C-3PO was upgraded to understand 7 million forms of communication around 27 ABY in the New Republic section, but the Rise of the First Order section places it in 33 ABY instead. " Jedi Master's Quiz," a section in Star Wars Insider 223, places his upgrade before the formation of the First Order,[61] which publicly occurred in 29 ABY according to Timelines, meaning c. 27 ABY must be the correct date.
• Timelines claims that Kazuda Xiono fired at the bridge of the Thunderer while piloting the Fireball during the Battle of Aeos Prime. However, as shown in " No Place Safe," Xiono was actually flying Yeager's ship. [62]
• Timelines places the events of " The Escape " in 34 ABY,[63] which contradicts Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy's placement of 35 ABY. [64] Furthermore, the timeline displayed at D23 Expo 2019 dated "The Escape" to 35 ABY by stating Star Wars Resistance concludes during that year. [65] Since Timelines is more recent than Battles that Changed the Galaxy and the D23 timeline was never officially released, the 35 ABY placement must have been overruled.
• Timelines states that the Skywalker lightsaber was repaired in 35 ABY,[2] however, Rey uses the lightsaber during the events of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, which both occur in 34 ABY,[58] [66] making this placement impossible.