Timeline (TOS)

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For the timeline of events in the Reimagined Series, see Timeline (RDM).

The timeline below chronicles the events depicted in the classic Battlestar Galactica series.

It does not include the sequel series Galactica 1980, which many fans, and Glen A. Larson himself, no longer recognize as part of "official" continuity. Nor does this timeline include the reimagined series or any of the novels or comics.

The timeline is given in yahrens, the classic series word for "years." The date around which the timeline revolves is 7322, the only date given in the series, and one from the Colonial calendar. This was the yahren when the Cylons attacked Umbra on Caprica, as mentioned in "The Man with Nine Lives".

Ancient history

• Before 1: The Beings of Light intervene at the beginning of human development on the planet that would come to be known as Kobol. Adama refers to these beings as the "Mother Race" (War of the Gods, Part I).
• 1: The beginning of the Colonial calendar.
• ~1348: The beginning of recorded human history on Kobol; 6000 yahrens before "Saga of a Star World".
• ~1348 to ~5438: The fall of Kobol and the Exodus of the Thirteen Tribes ("Saga of a Star World", "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I").
• ~5438: The Twelve Colonies begin to re-establish their space travel capabilities. At this time, the Colonials were using sub light craft reminiscent of the early space vehicles launched from Earth in the 1960s and 70s (The Hand of God). According to Adama, "It took them hundreds of yahrens to revive even the most primitive crafts" (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II, telemovie only).
• ~6347: The Cylons (TOS), a humanoid race, are taken over by their robot slaves. A machine ruler, known as the Imperious Leader, comes to rule the Cylon Empire. Count Iblis may have provided the voice for the Imperious Leader at the time of his assembly (War of the Gods, Part II)

History of the Colonial and Cylon confict

• ~6348: The Cylons attack the Hasaris, whose territory neighbors the Colonies. The Colonials intervene in the conflict between the Cylons and the Hasaris, and the Thousand-Yahren War begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire (Saga of a Star World).
• ~6848: Battlestar Galactica is launched. Back then, the celestial chambers on Galactica were used to confirm navigational headings (500 yahrens before "The Hand of God").
• Before 7248: Adama is born (Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I).
• ~7315: Apollo is born on Caprica to Adama and Ila. Starbuck is born on Caprica, his father is Chameleon.
• 7322: The epoch of this timeline. After one of the first Cylon attacks on Caprica, the people of the farm village of Umbra are scattered. One of the members of the community, Chameleon, is separated from his son, Starbuck. Starbuck is later found alone at the edge of the Thorn forest and is presumed to have been orphaned, aged 7 years (The Man With Nine Lives).
• ~7341: Boxey is born to Serina in the Colonies.
• 7346: The Fifth Fleet engages the Cylons at the Battle of Molecay. Battlestar Pegasus is the only Colonial vessel to survive. Commander Cain, realizing there will be Cylons lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders Pegasus out into deep space 2 yahrens before "The Living Legend, Part I".
• ~7347: Pegasus heads out into deep space, eventually winding up in the Delphian Empire, which is in the process of falling to the Cylons (The Living Legend, Part I).

The Seventh Millenium of Time

• 7348: Destruction of the Colonies, just before the 7th millennium of recorded time, and the end of the Thousand Yahren War (Saga of a Star World).

Original Series definition: unit of time akin to a "year" (see: Yahren)

Original Series definition: a title of nobility (e.g. Count Iblis)