This is just a basic chronology. Until I get the Ultimate Star Wars Chronology, from the Ultimate Guide series, this is the best I can offer...However, you may want to take a look, if you are new to Star Wars, to get a general idea of where things happened in time.
25,000 years before the Battle of Yavin (BBY)
The Old Republic, the first galaxy wide government, is
formed in the Core Worlds. The Jedi Knights act as the
Republic's loyal guardians and peacemakers.
4000 years BBY
The Jedi Knights Ulic Qel-Droma and Nomi Sunrider
train on Arkania and Ambria and help stop a war on
the planet Onderon.
(Tales of the Jedi,Comics)
3996 years BBY
Ulic Qel-Droma and Exar Kun join forces in the Great
Sith War and devastate Ossus.
(The Sith War, Comics)
10 years BBY
A young Han Solo learns the smuggling trade on Ylesia
and later joins the Imperial Academy.
(The Paradise Snare, Novel)
10-5 years BBY
R2-D2 and C-3PO have a series of adventures on
Kalabra and Roon as they move from master to
master.
(Droids, Comics and animated television series.)
3 years BBY
Lando Calrissian, in a recently acquired starship called
the Millennium Falcon, gambles his way across the
Centrality, including Rafa V.
(Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, Lando
Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, Lando
Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka, Novels)
2-1 years BBY
Han Solo and Chewbacca, now full-time smugglers,
leave Nar Shaddaa to seek adventure on Mytus VII,
Ammuud, Dellalt, and elsewhere.
(Han Solo at Star's End, Han Solo's Revenge, Han
Solo and the Lost Legacy, Novels)
0 years
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo rescue Princess Leia
from the Death Star, which is destroyed in the Battle
of Yavin.
(Star Wars: A New Hope, Film)
0-3 Years after the Battle of Yavin(ABY)
The Alliance evacuates Yavin 4 and searches for a
new base, while Leia visits the worlds of M'haeli and
Mimban.
(Classic Star Wars, Comics; Splinter of the Mind's
Eye, Novel; X-Wing, Computer Game)
3 years ABY
The Alliance is routed at the Battle of Hoth, but
Yoda teaches Luke to become a Jedi Knight on
Dagobah. Han Solo is encased in carbonite on
Bespin by Darth Vader.
(Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Film)
3.5 years ABY
Prince Xizor, criminal overlord of Black Sun, plots
to kill Luke Skywalker at Zhar and Coruscant.while
Boba Fett delivers the frozen Han Solo to Jabba the
Hutt.
(Shadows of the Empire, Novel and Game)
4 years ABY
Han Solo is rescued from Jabba's palace on Tatooine
and the second Death Star is destroyed at the Battle
of Endor. Mon Mothma, leader of the Rebel Alliance,
proclaims the birth of the New Republic.
(Star Wars:Return of the Jedi, Film)
4+ years ABY
The Alliance answers a distress call from the planet
Bakura, where the Rebels join forces with the
Imperials to fight of the Ssi-ruuk invasion.
(The Truce at Bakura, Novel)
6.5-7.5 years ABY
The courageous pilots of Rouge Squadron capture
the Imperial capital world of Coruscant and liberate
Thyferria.
(The X-Wing Series, Novels)
8 years ABY
Leia is courted by the handsome Prince Isolder of the
Hapes, but a jealous "kidnaps" her and takes her to the
wilderness of Dathomir. Leia and Han are married upon
their return.
(The Courtship of Princess Leia, Novel)
9 years ABY
Grand Admiral Thrawn takes command of the Empire
and leads a devastating campaign against the New
Republic with the help of mad Jedi Joruus C'baoth of
Wayland. Leia and Han's twins, Jacen and Jaina, are
born.
(Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last
Command, Novels)
10-11 years ABY
Emperor Palpatine returns in the boby of a clone on
Byss as rejuvenated Imperial forces drive the New
Republic from Coruscant. Palpatine is eventually
defeated. Leia and Han's third child, Anakin, is born.
(Dark Empire, Dark Empire II, Empire's End, Comics)
11 years ABY
Luke Skywalker founds the Jedi Acadmey on Yavin 4
while Admiral Daala strikes at the upstart Rebels on
Dantooine and Mon Calamari. Leia becomes Chief of
State of the New Republic.
(Jedi Search, Dark Apprentice, Champions of the Force,
Novels)
12-13 years ABY
Luke falls in love with Callista, a fellow Jedi Knight. The
burgeoning New Republic is menaced by the Eye of
Palpatine near Balsavis, the Hutt's Darksaber project, and
the Death Seed plague in the Meridian Sector.
(Children of the Jedi, Darksaber, Planet of Twilight,
Novels)
14 years ABY
Jacen, Jaina and Anakin are kidnapped by Hethrir, cruel
leader of the Empire Reborn, on Munto Codru.
(The Crystal Star, Novel)
16-17 years ABY
Leia's leadership is put to the test when the Yevetha, a
fanatically xenophobic alien species, emerge from N'Zoth
with an armada of Imperial warships.
(Before the Storm, Shield of Lies, Tyrant's Test, Novels)
17 years ABY
One of Luke's former Jedi student's masterminds a plan to
overthrow the New Republic from the planet Almania.
(The New Rebellion, Novel)
18 years ABY
Han returns to the Corellian system with his family and gets
caught up in a violent revolution.
(Ambush at Corellia, Assualt at Selonia, Showdown at
Centerpoint, Novels)
22 years ABY
Eleven-year-old Anakin Solo enrolls at Luke Skywalker's
Jedi academy and finds adventure with his friend Tahiri on
Yavin 8.
(The Junior Jedi Knights Series, Young Reader Novels)
23 years ABY
Jacen and Jaina, now fourteen, train at the Jedi academy
and foil the Second Imperium's attack on Kashyyyk
(The Young Jedi Knights Series, Young Adult Novels)
