Star Wars is a vast universe existing for thousands of years, but here are just a few key elements of the major story and character timelines.

The Star Wars franchise has been at the heart of the pop culture zeitgeist for over forty years and has expanded unlike any other movie series into a vast collection of stories from all media forms, spread across a gigantic Galaxy and happening within a long timeline. The canon is currently in its infancy, but there is still so much content and information about it, and a wide timeline remains in place.

While most of the detailed canon is contained in the Skywalker era, there is so much to it. It can often get confusing to those who are not canon junkies, with even mainstream popular pieces of content like The Mandalorian being cloudy for some.

10 The Mandalorian Takes Place 5 Years After Return Of The Jedi

The Mandalorian was an instant hit, proving the value of both Star Wars' relentless popularity and its unlimited potential in live-action television form, having already proved how incredible it is in the animated sphere.

It takes place five years after the events of Return Of The Jedi, a time when the Emperor is dead, the New Republic is organizing, but when a defeated, persistent, and fractured part of the Empire remains within the Galaxy.

9 Han Solo Was Alive With The Jedi

Han Solo is a character who fans and characters are just drawn towards. He has such a significant role in the entire Skywalker saga, being not just crucial to the movies and characters, but a beloved part of it all.

He is also a character who has a strange journey with optimism, regularly fluctuating between that and pessimism, with his standing at the start of the original trilogy being one against Jedi and the idea of the Force. However, what many fans may not realize is that Han was actually alive during the time of the Jedi, being born around 32 BBY (before the Battle of Yavin), AKA being thirteen by the end of the Clone Wars.

8 Hera & Kanan Met 6 Years Before Star Wars Rebels In 11 BBY

Star Wars: Rebels is the most underappreciated piece of on-screen Star Wars content out there, often overlooked due to its animation style, slightly more child-like approach in the first season, and because The Clone Wars is so damn perfect.

However, Hera Syndulla and Kanan Jarrus are two of the new canon's best characters, and the best original romance to come from it thus far. They met long before Rebels, though, six years before approximately, during the events of the A New Dawn book, quickly becoming key parts of each other's lives.

7 The Empire Fell After Return Of The Jedi

Speaking of rebels, it was a long and tumultuous fight for the band of freedom fighters as they battled the tyrannical Galactic Empire in the Galactic Civil War. Still, through grit, determination, hope, love, and R2-D2, they won.

However, the Empire did not die with the Empire; the final defeat for them as a truly powerful entity came at the Battle of Jakku. It came in 5 ABY and was the final grand scale engagement of the Galactic Civil War, with the aftermath seeing the Galactic Concordance signed, marking the end of the war and the Empire.

6 Anakin & Padmé Were Apart For Ten Years

Han and Leia, the most iconic romance of the saga. Obi-Wan and Satine, a fresh layer for a beloved character and an excellent tragic romance. Hera and Kanan, a will-they-won't-they with a sense of inevitability and incredible love and chemistry. Anakin and Padmé, a romance across the stars, and a hot mess.

They are the most important romance of the Skywalker saga, but one of the worst and most vilified in live-action, redeemed by the story behind them and their animated versions. One of the more significant issues with their live-action relationship is the lack of believability, which is further proved by the fact they did not see each other for a whole decade, yet Anakin seemed to still be mad for her, with Padmé harboring feelings also.

5 Three Of The Yoda Species At Once

Yoda is one of the most powerful and iconic Jedi to have ever lived, and in recent times, his iconography has gotten challenged by a younger warrior, the fifty-year-old Baby Yoda.

There is a third known individual of their mysterious species, Yaddle, a Jedi Master who sat on the Jedi High Council during The Phantom Menace. Given The Mandalorian's chronology and the Child's age, that means the only three known of this species were all alive together at one point.

4 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Takes Place 5 Years After The Clone Wars Ended

It has been a strange journey for Star Wars games in this new era for the franchise; the fact there has only been four games in seven-plus years has annoyed fans, and there was so much wrong with the first two of those four.

Then, there was a turn; Battlefront II became awesome thanks to incredibly hardworking devs, and then came Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, one of the best Star Wars games ever. It is a fantastic story and one that looks likely to continue in the future, with it taking place five years after the events of Revenge Of The Sith and the Clone Wars, in the early years of the Empire's reign.

3 The Clone Wars Were Around Three Years Long

Speaking of the Clone Wars, it is the key event of the prequel era, orchestrated by Palpatine that set about the fall of Anakin Skywalker, the rise of Darth Vader, and the entire original trilogy.

It also happened to be the subject of one of Star Wars' greatest feats, The Clone Wars, which lasted seven incredible seasons. However, the war itself was not seven years long, kicking off with the Battle of Geonosis leading into Revenge Of The Sith, and the Siege of Mandalore; the war itself actually only lasted three years.

2 Chewbacca Was Alive During The High Republic

Chewbacca is a character who never seems to get the credit he deserves in-universe. A loyal friend, a fierce warrior, and a loving Wookiee, he is a constant in the saga and a fairly old constant at that. Born in 200 BBY, Chewbacca lived through, and, in fact, outlived the Skywalker Saga.

With the High Republic era incoming, perhaps there will be a space for Chewie to fit into some pieces of content, considering he was a young inhabitant of Kashyyyk around the time the High Republic takes place, some 200 years before the events of the Skywalker saga.

1 Leia & Han's Wedding Was Around 4 ABY

The iconic relationship between Han and Leia is one of the many phenomenal aspects of the original trilogy, with the two getting married after the Emperor had been defeated and the second Death Star destroyed.

The marriage officially happened in 4 ABY (after the Battle of Yavin), not long after Return Of The Jedi. It lasted until Han's death; despite the two separating after their son's turn to the Dark Side of the Force, they remained married and in love, just apart.

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