We're making it easy for you, so all you need to know is that 'BBY' and 'ABY' mean 'Before the Battle of Yavin', and – you guessed it – 'After the Battle of Yavin', referring to the blowing up of the Death Star at the end of the original Star Wars, aka Episode IV – A New Hope.
Set about 10 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi is hiding out from the Empire while watching over a young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine.
“BBY” is a way time is measured in the Star Wars universe. It is to Star Wars what “BC” is to our own calendar — and the equivalent of our “AD” in Star Wars time is “ABY.” Each are acronyms; BBY stands for “Before the Battle of Yavin” and ABY is “After the Battle of Yavin.”
The following stories take place during this approximate time, in no exact order therein beyond any mini series order. BBY means Before the Battle of Yavin, which represents the events of Star Wars Episode IV, the original Star Wars film.
Before the Battle of Yavin covers the hundreds of thousands of years that occurred prior to that important military exchange, while After the Battle of Yavin covers the limited time since. Unlike BCE, the switch occurs during the year 0 BBY, which is simultaneously 0 ABY.
Lucasfilm. As the on-screen text tells us in the first episode, Andor takes place in “5 BBY,” meaning it occurs five years before the Battle of Yavin. This puts Andor in the same time period as the first season of Star Wars Rebels and, more importantly, five years before Cassian's demise at the end of Rogue One.
Events. Galen Marek was cloned on Kamino by Darth Vader. Bail Prestor Organa, Senator of Alderaan, retired from the Imperial Senate after 31 years of service in both the Galactic and Imperial Senates and was replaced by his adopted daughter Leia Organa.
Luke Skywalker around ten years of age. Around 9 BBY, Kenobi looked in on Skywalker via macrobinoculars around the same time that the Empire's Inquisitors came to Tatooine looking for the Jedi Nari. Skywalker was tasked with a chore by Lars but instead disappeared causing Lars and Beru to wonder where he went.
That's a date. 'BBY' stands for 'Before the Battle of Yavin,' referring to the climactic battle over the moon of Yavin IV where Luke shoots a proton torpedo down the Death Star's exhaust port in the original Star Wars film.
Events in the Star Wars Legends continuity are typically dated in terms of years BBY ("Before the Battle of Yavin") or ABY ("After the Battle of Yavin").
0 BBY (Before Battle of Yavin), also known as 0, was a period of time that, together with 0 ABY, made up a single year. That year was also known as 3277 LY according to the Lothal Calendar and year 7977 in the C.R.C. calendar.
32 BBY: The Trade Federation escalates a trade dispute by blockading Naboo. C-3PO and R2-D2 meet for the first time. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi discover Anakin Skywalker on Tatooine and save him from slavery (source: The Phantom Menace).
32 BBY, Anakin Skywalker is nine years old, and turns ten at some point following the movie. 22 BBY, Anakin Skywalker is now twenty years old. 19 BBY, Anakin Skywalker is now twenty-three years old. 0 ABY, he's now forty-two.
The culmination of a Sith plot a millennium in the making, Order 66 was a protocol enacted by Chancellor Palpatine (secretly Darth Sidious). Palpatine orchestrated both sides of the Clone Wars to bring forth the rise of his Empire and the end of the Jedi, and Order 66 was the masterstroke.
After nightfall, Ezra awoke to find himself and Chopper in the company of Master Kenobi. Ezra conversed with Kenobi, who revealed that Maul had used the holocrons to lure him to Tatooine. After some discussion, Kenobi reassured Ezra that the Jedi Master was able to handle Maul on his own.
About 19 years then pass before the events of A New Hope, and the original trilogy spans only about 4 years, making his age in those films roughly 32 to 36.
Din Djarin has been teaching Grogu how to navigate the galaxy, and Grogu could honor his father by becoming a bounty hunter in the future. Grogu does not have to be the new Mand'alor or a Jedi Master. Instead, Din Grogu could make his own through the galaxy, perhaps assisting the New Republic as a bounty hunter.
Although Order 66 greatly depleted the Jedi Order's ranks, with an estimated less than 100 Jedi surviving it, it was only the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge, which stretched on for years and claimed the lives of many of the survivors of the initial onslaught.
Events. The Unification Wars come to an end, with the Koros system united under Empress Teta's rule. Marka Ragnos dies, prompting a duel between the rival Sith Lords Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow, who both seek to succeed Ragnos.
A standard year was 368 days, composed of ten months, three fete weeks, and three holidays. As the Hyperdrive Theory allowed space travelers to bypass relativity, a single duration of time passed at all locations equally over a given interval.
