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==Recent Colonial History==
==Recent Colonial History==
*'''69 years BCH''': [[Saul Tigh]] born (defined by deleted scene in "[[Scattered]]" concerning the ''[[Brenik]]'') (He has recently been revealed as a Cylon presumably making his birth questionable)
*'''69 years BCH''': [[Saul Tigh]] born (defined by deleted scene in "[[Valley of Darkness]]" concerning the ''[[Brenik]]'') (He has recently been revealed as a Cylon presumably making his birth questionable)
*'''64 years BCH''': [[William Adama]] born in Qualai, Caprica ([[Hero]])
*'''64 years BCH''': [[William Adama]] born in Qualai, Caprica ([[Hero]])
*'''55 - 52 years BCH''': Somewhere during this time, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] are built to aid in hard labor and warfare ([[Miniseries]])
*'''55 - 52 years BCH''': Somewhere during this time, the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] are built to aid in hard labor and warfare ([[Miniseries]])
*'''52 years BCH''': Cylon revolt starts the first [[Cylon War]] ([[Colonial Day]])
*'''52 years BCH''': Cylon revolt starts the first [[Cylon War]] ([[Colonial Day]])
*'''52 years BCH''': [[Articles of Colonization]] signed ([[Colonial Day]], [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005])
*'''52 years BCH''': [[Articles of Colonization]] signed ([[Colonial Day]], [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a000025 RDM, April 11, 2005])
*'''51 years BCH''' Colonial ship ''[[Brenik]]'' is lost after a boarding action by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]
*'''51 years BCH''' Colonial ship ''[[Brenik]]'' is lost after a boarding action by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]] ([[Valley of Darkness]], deleted scene)
*'''50 years BCH''': Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' enters service
*ca. '''50 years BCH''': Battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' enters service
*'''42 years BCH:''' William Adama begins his service in the Colonial Fleet as a Viper pilot, near the end of the Cylon War ("[[Hero]]", [[Razor Flashbacks]])
*'''42 years BCH:''' William Adama begins his service in the Colonial Fleet as a Viper pilot, near the end of the Cylon War ("[[Hero]]", [[Razor Flashbacks]])
*'''40 years BCH:'''  
*'''40 years BCH:'''  
**[[Operation Raptor Talon]] conducted by the Colonial Fleet. Battlestar ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' destroyed ([[Razor Flashbacks]]).  
**[[Operation Raptor Talon]] conducted by the Colonial Fleet. Battlestar ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' destroyed ([[Razor Flashbacks]]).  
**Armistice ends the [[Cylon War]]. Cylons exile themselves from the Twelve Colonies ([[Miniseries]])
**Armistice ends the [[Cylon War]]. Cylons exile themselves from the Twelve Colonies ([[Miniseries]])
**William Adama mustered out of the Colonial Fleet ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Hero]]")
**William Adama mustered out of the Colonial Fleet ("[[Scattered]]", [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]])
*'''37 BCH:''' William Adama enlists as merchant marine and served about inter-colony freighters ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Hero]]")
*'''37 BCH:''' William Adama enlists as merchant marine and served about inter-colony freighters ("[[Scattered]]", [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]]):
*'''ca. 28 BCH:''' William Adama and [[Saul Tigh]] first meet ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Torn]]") <ref>The podcast for "Scattered" places their meeting "twenty years ago". In "[[Torn]]", Adama states that he has known Tigh for 30 years. Furthermore, [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]] places his reinstatement into the Colonial Fleet at 23 BCH. ''Battlestar Wiki'' choses to use the more consistent dates.</ref>
*'''ca. 27 BCH:''' William and [[Carolanne Adama]] meet and marry <ref name = "leezak">This date is assumed as follows: Zak died 2 BCH. Since he graduated from some kind of military academy, he would at least 22 years old, following real world models. On a [[:Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photograph]] of William Adama with his sons, Lee seems to be about two years older than Zak. Adama and his wife probably met not long before Lee's birth.</ref>
*'''ca. 26 BCH:''' [[Lee Adama]] born <ref name = "leezak"/>
*'''ca. 24 BCH:''' [[Zak Adama]] born <ref name = "leezak"/>
*'''23 years BCH:''' William Adama reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain ("[[Scattered]]" deleted scene, [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]])
*'''21 years BCH:''' Saul Tigh reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain by now Major Adama ([[Scattered]]) <ref>The time between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement is not specified on screen. The February/March issue of ''Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine'' gives t as two years: "''Adama reenlisted with the service and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service.''"</ref>
*'''20 years BCH:'''
*'''20 years BCH:'''
**Last significant [[FTL]] jump recorded in ''[[Galactica]]'s'' logs
**Last significant [[FTL]] jump recorded in ''[[Galactica]]'s'' logs (Miniseries)
**[[Tom Zarek]] imprisoned for blowing up a government building on [[Sagittaron]] ([[Bastille Day]])
**[[Tom Zarek]] imprisoned for blowing up a government building on [[Sagittaron]] ([[Bastille Day]])
**William Adama and [[Saul Tigh]] first meet ([[Scattered]], podcast) <ref>This is contradicted in "[[Torn]]" where Adama claims to have known Tigh for 30 years. Writer, [[Bradley Thompson]] [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques/Archive8#Adama.2FTigh Meeting|stated]] that Adama is exaggerating, thus indicating that 20 years (22-23 years by the time Adama makes the statement) is correct.</ref>
*'''17 BCH:''' William Adama assigned to the battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'', where he makes his 1000th Viper landing ([[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]], "[[Act of Contrition]]")
*'''17 years BCH:''' William Adama reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Hero]]") <!--Dossier places this at 23 BCH-->
*'''11 years BCH:''' [[Laura Roslin]] begins her career in politics ([[Litmus]])
*'''15 years BCH:''' Saul Tigh reinstated in the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain by Major William Adama  ([[Scattered]])
*'''13 years BCH:''' William Adama assigned as executive officer to the new battlestar ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' ([[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]])
*'''11 years BCH:'''  
*'''ca. 10 years BCH:''' [[Galen Tyrol]] enlists in the Colonial Fleet as a non-commissioned officer ([[Miniseries]])
**William Adama assigned to the battlestar ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'' ([[Hero]]) <!--Dossier places this at 17 BCH-->
*'''9 years BCH:''' William Adama promoted to commander and assigned as commander of the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'' ([[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]], "[[Hero]]")
**[[Laura Roslin]] begins her career in politics ([[Litmus]])
*'''7 years BCH:''' [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]] marry ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/112/deleted1.html deleted scene])
*'''13 years BCH:'''
*'''6 years BCH:''' William Adama leads aborted covert intelligence mission aboard ''Valkyrie''. [[Daniel Novacek]] is shot down and captured by the Cylons. Adama and Tigh are subsequently assigned to ''Galactica'' ([[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's dossier]], "[[Hero]]") <ref name="hero">While dialogue from "[[Hero]]" places these events at 1 BCH, this contradicts previously established dates about the time Adama and others served on ''Galactica''. See [[Hero#Analysis]] for a detailed explanation why ''Battlestar Wiki'' chooses to treat this as a continuity error.</ref>
**William Adama assigned as executive officer to the new battlestar ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'' ([[Hero]])
*'''10 years BCH:'''
**[[Galen Tyrol]] enlists in the Colonial Fleet as a non-commissioned officer ([[Miniseries]])
*'''9 years BCH:'''
**William Adama promoted to commander and assigned as commander of the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]'' ([[Hero]])
*'''7 years BCH:'''
**[[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]] marry ("[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season01/112/deleted1.html deleted scene])
*'''6 years BCH:'''
** William Adama leads aborted covert intelligence mission aboard ''Valkyrie''. [[Daniel Novacek]] is shot down and captured by the Cylons. Adama and Tigh are subsequently assigned to ''Galactica'' ([[Hero]]). <ref name="hero">While dialogue from "[[Hero]]" places these events at 1 BCH, this contradicts previously established dates about the time Adama and others served on ''Galactica''. See [[Hero#Analysis]] for a detailed explanation why ''Battlestar Wiki'' chooses to treat this as a continuity error.</ref>
*'''5 years BCH:'''
*'''5 years BCH:'''
**[[Laura Roslin]]'s last breast exam prior to her cancer diagnosis ([[Act of Contrition]])
**[[Laura Roslin]]'s last breast exam prior to her cancer diagnosis ([[Act of Contrition]])
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**[[Kara Thrace]] graduates from the Colonial Fleet Academy ([[Maelstrom]]).
**[[Kara Thrace]] graduates from the Colonial Fleet Academy ([[Maelstrom]]).
**[[Socrata Thrace]] dies of stomach cancer ([[Maelstrom]])
**[[Socrata Thrace]] dies of stomach cancer ([[Maelstrom]])
*'''3 years BCH:'''
*'''3 years BCH:''' [[Felix Gaeta]] assigned to ''Galactica'' ([[Miniseries]])
**[[Felix Gaeta]] assigned to ''Galactica'' ([[Miniseries]])
*'''2 years BCH:'''
*'''2 years BCH:'''
**[[Caprica Six]] begins residence on Caprica ([[Downloaded]]), first encounters Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Miniseries]])
**[[Caprica Six]] begins residence on Caprica ([[Downloaded]]), first encounters Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] ([[Miniseries]])
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**Lt. [[Kara Thrace]] is re-assigned from flight school to ''Galactica'' ([[Act of Contrition]])
**Lt. [[Kara Thrace]] is re-assigned from flight school to ''Galactica'' ([[Act of Contrition]])
*'''1 Year BCH:'''  
*'''1 Year BCH:'''  
**Last time William and [[Carolanne Adama]] speak ([[Miniseries]])
**Last time William and Carolanne Adama speak ([[Miniseries]])
**[[Carolanne Adama]] gets engaged ([[Miniseries]])
**Carolanne Adama gets engaged ([[Miniseries]])
**[[Anastasia Dualla]] last visits her home ([[Final Cut]])
**[[Anastasia Dualla]] last visits her home ([[Final Cut]])


Revision as of 07:21, 26 October 2007

For information on the specific dating system in the Re-imagined Series, see Colonial calendar.


This article attempts to plot the events illustrated or mentioned in the history and prehistory of the Twelve Colonies in the Re-imagined Series.

All dates use the day of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies as the central time marker for all events in the series. Items that occur before the Fall are marked as "BCH", or "Before Cylon holocaust".

Ancient History

  • Over 17,000 years BCH: A supernova creates the Ionian nebula.
  • 4,000 years BCH: The Thirteenth Tribe reportedly leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)[1]. At some undated point, something travels from Earth to Kobol, passing on information about Earth, including a map of its night sky.
  • 3,600 years BCH: Pythia records her prophecies
  • 2,000 years BCH: The remaining Twelve Tribes leave Kobol
  • 2,000 years to 52 years BCH: The Twelve Colonies grow and prosper. Each colony acts as a sovereign nation, complete with inter-colonial wars

Recent Colonial History

Events of the Miniseries

  • Zero Hour:
    • The Armistice Station is destroyed by Cylon forces
    • Laura Roslin is diagnosed with inoperable breast cancer
    • Galactica is decommissioned
    • The Twelve Colonies are heavily bombarded by nuclear bombs
    • Picon Fleet Headquarters is destroyed
    • Galactica's last Viper Mark VII squadron is destroyed
    • A battle near Virgon ends with the total loss of the remaining Colonial Fleet including the flagship battlestar Atlantia
    • The battlestar Pegasus luckily escapes the destruction of the Scorpian Fleet Shipyards (Pegasus)
    • Galactica engages Cylon Raiders and survives with moderate damage and 85 dead
    • Last transmission from the Colonies received by Laura Roslin aboard Colonial Heavy 798 from a fellow secretary
    • Case Orange contingency mechanism assigns Roslin the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies
    • Roslin gathers stranded civilian and military ships around the vicinity of Caprica
    • Commander Adama assumes overall Fleet command and orders regroup at Ragnar Anchorage
    • Roslin's fleet survives two Cylon attacks and meets at Ragnar
    • Galactica changes from battle stance to civilian protection, and escorts the civilian fleet from Ragnar towards the Prolmar Sector

Season 1

See Timeline - Season 1 (RDM)

Season 2

See Timeline - Season 2 (RDM)

Season 3

See Timeline - Season 3 (RDM)

Season 4

See Timeline - Season 4 (RDM)

References

  1. ↑ Galen Tyrol cites 4,000 years as the approximate age of the temple. This is the oldest date noted in the Re-imagined Series timeline, but also conflicts with the prior date of Pythia and her works as described by Elosha in the season 1 episode "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I," where she notes that the exodus of all 13 tribes occurred 2,000 years prior.
  2. ↑ The podcast for "Scattered" places their meeting "twenty years ago". In "Torn", Adama states that he has known Tigh for 30 years. Furthermore, Adama's dossier places his reinstatement into the Colonial Fleet at 23 BCH. Battlestar Wiki choses to use the more consistent dates.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 This date is assumed as follows: Zak died 2 BCH. Since he graduated from some kind of military academy, he would at least 22 years old, following real world models. On a photograph of William Adama with his sons, Lee seems to be about two years older than Zak. Adama and his wife probably met not long before Lee's birth.
  4. ↑ The time between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement is not specified on screen. The February/March issue of Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine gives t as two years: "Adama reenlisted with the service and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service."
  5. ↑ While dialogue from "Hero" places these events at 1 BCH, this contradicts previously established dates about the time Adama and others served on Galactica. See Hero#Analysis for a detailed explanation why Battlestar Wiki chooses to treat this as a continuity error.
  6. ↑ Since Adama states that Tyrol has been under his commander for "over five years", this might also be one year earlier.
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