Star Wars Planets Timeline

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• The Star Wars canonical timeline is structured around the Battle of Yavin, with dates expressed as BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin) and ABY (After the Battle of Yavin)[3][9]
• The Force first came into existence on a mysterious planet called the Wellspring of Life billions of years before the films[1][7]
• The Jedi Order began on the planet Ahch-To, where Force-sensitive creatures gathered to start the Jedi and built a temple[7]
• Ilum and Jedha are sacred Jedi planets that served as major sources of kyber crystals used to construct lightsabers[4][7]
• Coruscant, an ecumenopolis in the Core, functions as the political and cultural center of the galaxy and is believed to be the home world of humankind[1][3]
• The Clone Wars occurred between 22 BBY and 19 BBY, marking a large-scale conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Islands[3]
• The Galactic Empire rose after the fall of the Republic in 19 BBY, ruled by Emperor Palpatine until the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY[3]
• The first Death Star was destroyed at the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, a military engagement depicted in A New Hope (1977)[3]
• Darth Bane escaped as the sole survivor after the Sith Wars ended, though the Jedi believed the Sith to be extinct[1][3]
• Leia gave birth to her son Ben Solo on the very same day the Battle of Endor concluded, around 4 ABY[1][3]