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The following events took place in the year 5000 BBY,[10] also known as -1723 LY according to the Lothal Calendar,[8] 4981 BFE in the Imperial calendar,[9] and year 2977 in the C.R.C. calendar.[7]
Events[]
- Hundred-Year Darkness (Approximate date)[11]
- Beginning of the Sith Wars (Approximate date)[2]
- An era of conflict between the Jedi and Sith begins. (Approximate date)[12]
- The Great Temple is built by the Massassi on Yavin 4.[6]
- The Sith are defeated in a war against the Jedi.[3]
- The Jedi raze the Sith shrine on Coruscant at the end of a siege. (Approximate date)[3][5]
- According to the Qel-Droma Epics, the Great Hyperspace War took place in this year.[13] (Approximate date)[4]
- The Chiss acquire an alien superweapon known as Starflash. (Approximate date)[2]
Appearances[]
- Tarkin (First mentioned, simultaneous with audiobook) (Indirect mention only)
- Tarkin audiobook
Sources[]
Jedi Order in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only) (Concurrent with the entry for Sith)- Sith in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only) (Concurrent with the entry for Jedi Order)
- Journey Through Space
- Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 23 (Guide to the Galaxy: Yavin 4's Massassi Temple) (First identified as 5000 BBY)
- Nexus of Power
- The Star Wars Book (Indirect mention only)
- "Before the dark times…" — Star Wars - The Official Magazine 101
- Star Wars: Timelines
Notes and references[]
- ↑
Sith in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Nexus of Power
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 According to Nexus of Power, the Qel-Droma Epics dates the destruction of Ossus to approximately 4000 years before the Imperial Era. The Epics also say that Ossus' destruction took place a one thousand years after the Great Hyperspace War, it could be calculated that the war occurred approximately 5000 years before the Imperial Era.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 According to the novel Tarkin, the Sith shrine on Coruscant had been abandoned "close to five thousand years" as of the story's present day in 14 BBY. As the Sith were driven from the shrine during the war, it can be deduced that the war had ended by this time.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 23 (Guide to the Galaxy: Yavin 4's Massassi Temple)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 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.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 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.
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- ↑ Star Wars (2015) 9
- ↑ The Star Wars Book dates the the beginning of an era of Jedi-Sith conflict to 5000 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which corresponds to 5000 BBY according to Star Wars: Galactic Atlas.
- ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 47 (Secrets of Spaceflight: Hyperspace)
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