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279 BBY or 279[1] Before the Battle of Yavin, was a year in the 'ABY-BBY' dating system[5] that was a part of the High Republic Era. Around that year,[1] the Galactic Republic assisted with a full-scale evacuation of the planet Hintis IV due to the impending death of its star, Hintis.[6]

Behind the scenes[]

279 BBY was indirectly mentioned in the 2023 novel The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness, written by George Mann and published as a part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[6] Phase III.[7]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The section of The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness where Bell Zettifar reflects on Hintians takes place shortly after the one year anniversary of the destruction of Starlight Beacon, which equates to 229 BBY per Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia. Per the former work, the evacuation took place around fifty years earlier and therefore around 279 BBY.
  2. Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious dates the assassination attempt on Padmé Amidala on Coruscant and the carbon-freezing of Han Solo—events that Star Wars: Timelines places in the years 22 BBY and 3 ABY of the 'ABY-BBY' dating system, respectively—to 7955.442.1 and 7980.421.2 in the Coruscant reckoning calendar, therefore establishing a difference of approximately 7,977 years between the two dating systems.
  3. Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide places the founding of the Galactic Empire in the year 3258 LY of the Lothal Calendar. Star Wars: Timelines dates the proclamation of the New Order to 19 BBY, placing the zero point—the Battle of Yavin—of the 'ABY-BBY' dating system around 3277 LY and therefore establishing a difference of approximately 3,277 years between the two dating systems.
  4. Per Star Wars: The Rebel Files, a calendar existed during the reign of the Galactic Empire the zero point of which was the Empire's founding. Star Wars: Timelines dates the proclamation of the New Order to the year 19 BBY of the 'ABY-BBY' dating system, therefore establishing a difference of approximately nineteen years between the two dating systems.
  5. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  6. 6.0 6.1 The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness
  7. StarWars Star Wars: The High Republic Chronological Reader's Guide on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
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Years of the Republic Era
1032 BBY · 1014 BBY · 1000 BBY · 997 BBY
982 BBY · 973 BBY · 972 BBY · 965 BBY
900 BBY · 896 BBY · 867 BBY · 832 BBY
800 BBY · 797 BBY · 679 BBY · 620 BBY
600 BBY · 582 BBY · 532 BBY · 522 BBY
511 BBY · 509 BBY · 500 BBY
High Republic Era 500 BBY · 437 BBY · 431 BBY · 430 BBY · 429 BBY
428 BBY · 422 BBY · 412 BBY · 407 BBY · 402 BBY
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392 BBY · 387 BBY · 385 BBY · 383 BBY · 382 BBY
381 BBY · 380 BBY · 379 BBY · 350 BBY · 339 BBY
332 BBY · 319 BBY · 318 BBY · 300 BBY · 285 BBY
279 BBY · 272 BBY · 270 BBY · 265 BBY · 262 BBY
257 BBY · 255 BBY · 253 BBY · 252 BBY · 251 BBY
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246 BBY · 245 BBY · 244 BBY · 243 BBY
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229 BBY · 228 BBY · 217 BBY · 205 BBY
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134 BBY · 133 BBY · 132 BBY · 131 BBY · 118 BBY
104 BBY · 102 BBY · 101 BBY · 100 BBY
100 BBY · 99 BBY · 93 BBY · 92 BBY · 90 BBY · 88 BBY
87 BBY · 86 BBY · 85 BBY · 84 BBY · 82 BBY
81 BBY · 80 BBY · 76 BBY · 72 BBY · 69 BBY
68 BBY · 66 BBY · 65 BBY · 64 BBY · 62 BBY
60 BBY · 59 BBY · 58 BBY · 57 BBY · 56 BBY
55 BBY · 54 BBY · 53 BBY · 52 BBY · 51 BBY
50 BBY · 49 BBY · 48 BBY · 47 BBY · 46 BBY
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40 BBY · 39 BBY · 38 BBY · 37 BBY · 36 BBY
35 BBY · 34 BBY · 33 BBY · 32 BBY
Fall of the Republic 32 BBY · 31 BBY · 30 BBY · 29 BBY · 28 BBY · 27 BBY
26 BBY · 25 BBY · 24 BBY · 23 BBY · 22 BBY · 21 BBY
20 BBY · 19 BBY
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