Star Wars timeline from Phantom Menace to Rise of Skywalker

Though the Skywalker Saga has been over for a while now, it doesn’t suggest that we’ll by no means return to the galaxy far, distant. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has confirmed, like virtually all different Star Wars films save for the originals, to be divisive amongst followers.

Whatever your emotions on it, it was the ultimate look of fan favourites Luke, Leia, and Han. But that does not imply that we’re by no means going to get a glimmer of Star Wars magic once more.

We may not have a brand new film till 2023, but Disney is increasing the universe with Disney+ sequence The Mandalorian and a sequence of novels and comedian books, together with an upcoming sequence set within the High Republic period.

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Over the span of 4 many years, we have seen quite a lot of Star Wars content material each on massive screens and small. From animated sequence to movie epics, to not point out video video games and comics, there’s extra Star Wars on the market than we all know what to do with.

If the considered watching your complete franchise in chronological order is each interesting and daunting, we have provide you with one thing that will help you navigate your binge.

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We’ve put collectively a timeline, in chronological order (versus order of launch) of all of the Star Wars movies, animated reveals, spin-offs, and Disney+ sequence. We have not included the novels or comedian books as a result of if we did we would by no means end (and neither would you).

In order to grasp the timeline, and never simply observe willy-nilly, there are two acronyms you may want to recollect.

They are BBY (earlier than the Battle of Yavin) and ABY (after the Battle of Yavin). That battle occurred in Star Wars: A New Hope, and commenced with an try to destroy the Rebel base of Yavin IV, which ended within the explosion of the primary Death Star.

Dates previous BBY depend all the way down to the occasion (like detrimental numbers, the nearer they get to zero the nearer to the occasion we get) and dates following ABY depend away from the occasion. Congratulations! Now you are just a little bit extra of a Star Wars nerd than you had been earlier than.

(Note: Contains main spoilers for the Star Wars films and tv reveals. Duh.)

Episode I: The Phantom Menace – 32 BBY

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The notorious opening textual content crawl defined heaps that – it rapidly transpired – did not warrant explaining. It noticed Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his grasp Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) despatched to officiate in a disagreement between the Trade Federation and Naboo, which led to the planet being blockaded.

They escape with Queen Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) and exiled fish-rabbit clown Jar Jar Binks to Tatooine, the place they meet younger and extremely annoying house Jesus Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) and badass villain Darth Maul. A droid invasion is halted at the price of Jinn’s life, but it surely all seems that was all an excessively difficult double-cross handy energy to Naboo’s senator and future Sith tyrant Emperor Palpatine.

How anybody may probably blockade a complete planet is rarely defined.

Major occasions

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO and R2-D2 are launched chronologically for the primary time

The existence of the Sith is revealed

Darth Maul dies (or does he…?)

Palpatine turns into the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic

Episode II: Attack of the Clones – 22 BBY

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Ten years later, Anakin (now Hayden Christensen) has developed from annoying to the worst. We meet Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) a former Jedi and secret Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, who’s making an attempt to steer a load of planets referred to as the Confederacy of Independent Systems (or Separatists) out of the Republic for essential and positively clear causes.

Terrible undercover bodyguard Anakin takes Padmé into protecting seclusion and regardless of prolonged publicity she nonetheless falls in love with him….