0 ABY. The Battle of Yavin was the “line-in-the-sand” clash between the Empire and Rebellion that formally plunged the galaxy into civil war. Intended to be a military effort to destroy the DS-1 battle station (“Death Star”), it became a rallying event for worlds and forces against Imperial rule and signaled the end of the …
0 BBY. Known as The Disaster, Alderaan was destroyed by Imperial forces using the DS-1 (Death Star) battle station. Following the destruction of the planet, the Empire began an unofficial, but systematic purge of Alderaanians from Imperial worlds. The rescue of Alderannians became a focus of Rebel efforts.
19 BBY. With the declaration of the Jedi as enemies of the Republic and subsequent execution of Order 66 to purge the Jedi from the galaxy, Chancellor Palpatine dissolved the Imperial Senate, elevated himself to Galactic Emperor and began the period of Imperial rule over the galaxy. The formation of the Empire moved swiftly and …
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22 BBY. The establishment of the Confederacy of Independent Systems across mid-rim and outer-rim worlds ignited into the Clone Wars. The Clone Wars are now understood to have been a politically-motivated war designed to create the conditions for the rise of the Galactic Empire.
32 BBY. Trade Federation begins a blockade, invasion and occupation of Naboo, which ends in the destruction of occupying forces by coordinated actions across Naboo, intervention of the Republic and the Jedi.
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1000 BBY. Following the end of the New Sith Wars and the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, the Ruusan Reformation restructured the entire Galactic Republic, stripping power away from the Supreme Chancellor and reinvesting it in the Galactic Senate.
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