Talk: Timeline of galactic history

ABY/BBY

BBY and ABY what happing to that. —Unsigned comment by 58.168.26.101 (talk • contribs)

• When the Lucasfilm Story Group de-canonized much of the Expanded Universe and rebranded it as Star Wars Legends, they appear to have also done away with the BBY/ABY system sadly. All of the new canonical works published after A New Dawn do not use the BBY/ABY system. The new Star Wars Canon timeline does not seem to have an official dating system apart from the Lothal Calendar mentioned briefly in Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide. It seems the Story Group hasn't come up with a dating system. So, we have to make do without it until they come up with one. Andykatib 11:10, April 22 2016 (UTC)
  • Well, with the release of Star Wars: Galactic Atlas, ABY/BBY is now canon. So, literally every date on every canon page needs to be changed. Hooboy.--D9328 (talk) 11:07, November 4, 2016 (UTC)d9328
    • Hi, I'm new here, but really interested in working on this page. I hate the the idea tossing decades of contributions, for the sake of an arbitrary (and unnecessary!) new timeline. How would editors feel about converting the Galactic Timeline page from a nested outline to a table (or series of tables)? I've been tinkering with this idea offline, using an Excel data table. My columns are: Eras, Periods (*within* each Eras), BBY/ABY, C.R.C, LY, Events, and Event Type (Battle, Birth, Death, etc.). RedQueenAR (talk) 22:44, January 15, 2020 (UTC)
      • Welcome! Which timeline are you referring to as being arbitrary and unnecessary? Sounds possible, though I suspect we'd need to see how it looks before we can give a final judgement on it --Lewisr (talk) 23:07, January 15, 2020 (UTC)
        • Hi, ty for the assist! The VG for TROS introduces a new BSI/ASI chronology (Before/After the Starkiller Incident) and I panicked, thinking they were about to replace BBY/ABY. I found out this morning that Matt Martin tweeted that the BSI/ASI chronologies are inclusive to the guides. RedQueenAR (talk) 23:37, January 15, 2020 (UTC)
          • No worries! It is just a system Pablo used for TROS, he used something similar for Solo and Rogue One, nothing to be worried about in the slightest --Lewisr (talk) 23:42, January 15, 2020 (UTC)

Overlapping Events

The year 1022 BBY has several events that are listed here, but are also take place on a different date at least 10 years earlier. Example: the years 1022 BBY and 1032 BBY are both listed as the time the Old Republic collapsed and was reformed as the Galactic Republic. There is also reference to 1032 BBY on the Darth Bane page. —Unsigned comment by Furious Deep (talk • contribs)

Dates

What's the source for the dates of all of these events from thousands of years before the Clone Wars? We know that they happened, but how do we know when? Captain Britain04 (talk) 17:59, January 9, 2017 (UTC)

• See the source at the end of each sentence. OOM 224 (talk) 12:55, January 11, 2019 (UTC)

More detail on the Clone Wars?

This list is severely lacking in details of the Clone Wars era, considering it has an entire canon TV series. 20 BBY is missing completely! —Unsigned comment by 101.127.208.83 (talk • contribs)

Agreed. —Unsigned comment by Wabble33 (talk • contribs)

"Force sensitives gather to form the Jedi Order"?

"[C. 10000 BBY] Force sensitives gather to form the Jedi Order, dedicated to the preservation of peace and justice. The world Ilum comes into their possession." How can that be sourced to the Ilum Databank entry? There's absolutely no hint of a date in there. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 14:55, May 4, 2017 (UTC)

• I agree there is nothing in the databank suggests it, so I removed the Ilum databank citation and added it needs to be sourced from elsewhere --Lewisr (talk) 15:00, May 4, 2017 (UTC)

Battles from Battlefront: Twilight Company

In this article the battles from Battlefront: Twilight Company are dated 3 ABY, but in the Template:Canon_Galactic_Civil_War it is indicated that they occurred in 1 ABY. Where is the mistake? HellK9t (talk) 06:20, August 4, 2017 (UTC)

Twilight Company is set 2-3 ABY. —Unsigned comment by Wabble33 (talk • contribs)

Images

Incorporating images would only congest the article, not enhance it. Remove the {{{Image}}} template? - - - OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 18:52, December 27, 2019 (UTC)

• Only adding too many images would congest it, I don't see why images couldn't be added to it --Lewisr (talk) 18:56, December 27, 2019 (UTC)

Since only roughly one image could be displayed in a screen (oasis skin) at a time, could anyone create a compilation of images: ({1} [[File:TheOnes-SWE.png]] [[File:Midi-chlorian homeworld.png]] [[File:Hyperspacetunnel.png]] [[File:Prime Jedi.jpg]])? - - - OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 21:38, January 6, 2020 (UTC) - - - OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 00:56, February 18, 2020 (UTC)

20,000 years BBY

The section starting 20,000 years BBY needs to be moved to pre-history. 10 millennia is 10,000 years, thus is should not be situated in that section of the timeline. 184.64.102.148 04:46, March 15, 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks for bringing this to our attention, the issue has been fixed. - - - OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 09:42, March 15, 2020 (UTC)

Latest CW episodes

Taking into account that the Bad Batch Arc occurs AFTER Ahsoka's little adventure with the Martez sisters, and seeing that Maul had already escaped prison during the later (since he was, once again, ruling the Pyke Syndicate), then the battle of Anaxes and all related events must take place after Maul's release in The Son of Dathomir, wouldn't you agree? (not to mention, Timeline of canon media places the comic before this final season of The Clone Wars) - Pedronog (talk) 12:12, April 22, 2020 (UTC)

• It appears that way yes --Lewisr (talk) 12:16, April 22, 2020 (UTC)

Movement of the Death Star

The death star leaves Geonosis twice in this timeline, when I believe 14 BBY to be accurate when taking Tarkin into consideration. 14 BBY - Death Star leaves Geonosis for Deep Space, 10 BBY - Death Star moves from Deep Space to Scariff? —Unsigned comment by 72.73.111.44 (talk • contribs)

• Inconsistency sorted; I've reworded the relevant lines to avoid contradictions with help from everyone on Discord. Thanks for bringing this up. - - - OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 17:04, May 23, 2020 (UTC)

Lightsabers

We should add lightsabers.--71.223.146.214 20:09, August 25, 2020 (UTC)

Elaborate.--DirtyBlue929 (talk) 21:36, August 25, 2020 (UTC)

What?--71.223.146.214 21:37, August 25, 2020 (UTC)

That's my question. What do you mean "add lightsabers"? Add when they were invented? Add when certain lightsabers were built? Add a specific event involving lightsabers?--DirtyBlue929 (talk) 06:40, August 26, 2020 (UTC)

Detail of citations

Hello, For a lot of these dates, though they are cited with the material that they came from, the actual date is not mentioned within the material and is conjectured based on comments made or educated estimates (no, none come to mind, but this isn't my immediate point). When something is cited as just being confirmed by, I don't know, A New Hope, it doesn't actually explain how the date conclusion was reached. Is there some sort of way that we could include summarised explanations of this sort of thing within the citations? —Akina Speranza ^Holotable 11:42, September 28, 2020 (UTC)

• Do you have any specific examples? When the source in question doesn't explicitly provide a date, the references here would ideally have detailed notes on how the dating was reached. For example, references 40, 42, 48, 49, 55, 56, 57, and 58. There's also the horrifically convoluted ref. 96, but anyway. Of course, there's always something that slipped through proper referencing regarding the dates; I just found one here. I'd be eager to fix any errors if you could point them out, and you're also welcome to fix them yourself. Hope this answers your question! - - - OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 16:23, September 28, 2020 (UTC)

10,000 BBY and hyperdrive invention

So where does earlier 10,000 BBY date that was used before the source for 25,000 BBY comes from and when actually hyperdrive tech was invented according to Tarkin? --Goodmind (talk) 23:57, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

• I don't understand your question. There's no 10000 BBY. As for the hyperdrive, as the timeline says, we don't know when it was invented. - - -OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 06:34, October 7, 2020 (UTC)

video

Shouldn’t the featured video be switched every year when Star Wars explained makes a new one? This is the most recent one: Star Wars: The Complete Canon Timeline (2019) on the Star Wars Explained YouTube channel (backup link) JediMasterMacaroni (talk) 20:11, October 6, 2020 (UTC)

• It's a Fandom thing. We have no say in the matter. - - -OOM 224 ༼༽^{talk}༼༽ 06:28, October 7, 2020 (UTC)

21 BBY

What about the battles with Bant Eerin and her padawan? —Unsigned comment by 97.124.254.42 (talk • contribs)

• This is a canon timeline of history, Bant Eerin doesn't currently have a Padawan in canon, all that info would be covered on the Legends version of this page, if its not there then it could be added --Lewisr (talk) 23:26, 2 April 2021 (UTC)