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Bajoran civilization flourishes, boasting architects, artists, builders and philosophers.
20,000 years ago
The great, sacred city of B'Hala is lost and eventually buried beneath 200 meters of sediment.
10,000 years ago
The first Orb is discovered in the Bajoran system. Bajoran religion comes to be founded on the wisdom provided by this and and the eight other Orbs which would later appear.
The first attempts to locate the lost city of B'Hala are unsuccessful.
3,000 years ago
Trakor records his visions as prophecies. Several were to come true, including Trakor's Third Prophecy.
16th Century
Using tachyon-powered Lightships, Bajoran explorers journey into surrounding sectors, including the Cardassian system.
22nd Century
A transport carrying Kai Taluno is disabled in the Denorios Belt, where the Kai claims the heavens open up and almost swallow his ship. The Kai would become convinced of his sighting of the Celestial Temple of the Prophets.
Renowed poet Akorem Laan is injured in an accident aboard his Lightship, but successfully returns home to complete his career.
2328
Bajor is claimed as a territory of the Cardassian Union. Cardassian Occupational Forces arrive on the planet. A number of small underground resistance cells arise, including the Shakaar, the Higa Metar, the Khon-Ma and the Ornathia. Bajorans abandon their strict Dejara caste system, assuming the collective caste of Solider.
2336
Bajor is formally annexed as part of the Cardassian Union. Cardassian Occupational Forces install a puppet government which promptly signs work orders sending millions of Bajorans into the harsh conditions of the mines or the labor camps.
2340
Ro Laren is born on Bajor. She would later serve as a Starfleet officer aboard the USS Wellington and the USS Enterprise before becoming a Maquis operative.
2343
Kira Nerys is born on Bajor in Dahkur Province, her mother an icon painter, her father a member of the Bajoran resistance. She would later serve in the Shakaar resistance cell and as a Major in the Bajoran militia.
2351
Station Terok Nor is built in orbit of Bajor by the Cardassians. It serves as an ore-processing center, using Bajoran labor to refine minerals strip mined from the surface in preparation for transport elsewhere.
2357
The prison camp at Gallitep is liberated by the Shakaar resistance. The site is noted for unspeakable atrocities including torture, rape and murder commited against Bajorans under the direction of Gul Darhe'el.
2360
A Resistance base at Lunar V is hit by Cardassian forces. Famed resistance leader Li Nalas is believed killed in combat but is instead taken to the Houtet Labor Camp on Cardassia IV.
2362
Bajoran resistance members stage an attack against a Cardassian settlement in Tohzat Province. Several Cardassians are killed as well as orphaned in the attack, including the family of the settlement's exarch, Kotan Pa'Dar.
2365
The lifeform known as Odo is appointed a Security Chief on the Promenade of Terok Nor, later DS9, by Gul Dukat. His keen investigative skills are complemented by the respect he has earned from both Bajorans and Cardassians for fairness and justice.
2369
The Kendra Valley Massacre - Kai Opaka diffuses a situation in Kendra Valley, sacrificing her own son by revealing the location of his resistance cell in order to save the rest of the valley populous. 43 lives are lost.
The Bajor-Cardassia Armistice is signed, and Cardassian Supreme Directive 26/45 is issued, allowing for the full withdrawal of the Cardassian Occupational Forces from Bajor. The Armistice also deals the return of war prisoners and the issue of Cardassian property remaining on Bajor.
The Ilvian Proclamation is signed into law by the new Bajoran Provisional Government. All collaborators with the Cardassian forces are permanently exiled from Bajor, including all members of the puppet Occupational Government.
A Starfleet presence is requested in the sector by the Provisional Government. Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko takes command of the Cardassian mining station Terok Nor, now redesignated station Deep Space Nine. Mjr. Kira Nerys is assigned as his liason to the Bajoran government. Bajor officially tenders its application for formal memebership in the Federation.
Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko is found to be The Emissary by Kai Opaka, as evidenced by his discovery of the Celestial Temple of the Prophets, and his subsequent first contact with them. The discovery of the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant places Bajor at a key site in interstellar commerce, science and exploration.
Kai Opaka is killed on a visit to the Gamma Quadrant. A power struggle ensues to determine her successor.
The settlement on the Jeraddo moon is evacuated in preparation for a power generation project that would leave the moon uninhabitable.
An attempt on the life of Vedek Bareil engineered by Vedek Winn follows a controversy on Deep Space Nine surrounding the secular teaching of the wormhole.
2370
Bajoran prisoners of war are liberated from the Houtet Labor Camp on Cardassia IV, including legendary hero Li Nalas, who is subsequently given the honorary title of Nayvark.
Civil unrest grows on Bajor, instigated by The Alliance for Global Unity, commonly known as the Circle. The attempt to seize control of the Provisional Government climaxes in a siege on the Capitol City and Deep Space Nine. Li Nalas is killed.
Several million Skreean refugees arrive from the Gamma Quadrant, convinced Bajor is their prophesied Promised Land. The Provisional Government decides to refuse them asylum, instead relocating them to a suitable colony elsewhere.
Vedek Winn is elected the new Kai, following the withdrawal of favorite Vedek Bareil only days before the election.
New Bajor, the Bajoran colony in the Gamma Quadrant, is massacred as part of a display of power by the Dominion, the primary political power of the Gamma Quadrant. A number of ships, including the USS Odyssey are destroyed as part of the show of force.
2371
The assignment of the USS Defiant to Deep Space Nine becomes an integral part of Starfleet defensive posture in response to the new Dominion threat. A mission to contact the Founders of the Dominion partially succeeds in identifying a shapeshifting race known as the Changelings as the Founders. It is discovered that Security Chief Odo of Deep Space Nine is of this race.
A formal Bajor-Cardassia Treaty is finalized and signed by Kai Winn and Legate Turrel. The treaty establishes a final peace between the two states, including exchange of Ambassadors, return of the orbs and war reparations to Bajor for damages during the Occupation. Vedek Bareil dies.
Trakor's Third Prophecy comes to pass, although not in the manner that several alarmist factions caution against. A permanent communications link with the Gamma Quadrant is subsequently established.
The Orb of Wisdom is returned to Bajor by the Ferengi Grand Nagus... for a small fee.
A joint Cardassian/Romulan preemptive strike on the Founders' homeworld fails. The feared Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar agencies are severely decimated as a result.
Civil unrest in Dakuhr Province follows the death of First Minister Kalem Opren as Kai Winn orders the confiscation of several soil reclamators from local farmers. Former resistance cell leader Shakaar is subsequently elected as the new First Minister.
A Dominion plot to plunge the Federation into war with the Tzenkethi is narrowly averted.
2372
In response to the Dominion threat and internal civil unrest, the Cardassian Union seals its borders. The ruling military regime is overthrown and a new civilian government, headed by the Datappa Council, replaces the Central Command.
Interpreting developments in the Cardassian government to be a sign of Dominion inflitration, the Klingon Empire invades the Cardassian Union. The Khitomer Accords, allying the Klingons with the Federation are dissolved. War between the Federation and the Klingon Empire is tenuously averted.
A joint Bajoran/Cardassian mission to locate crash survivors of the Cardassian prison ship Ravenock succeeds in liberating survivors from a Breen labor camp in the Badlands.
An unsuccessful attempt is made on the life of First Minister Shakaar by Cardassian extremist group "The True Way".
Klingon military forces are unsuccessful in an attempt to halt traffic in the Bajoran sector by mining the Bajoran star system due to Starfleet intervention.
A 200-year old Lightship exits the Wormhole, carrying renowed 22nd-century poet Akorem Laan. The title of Emissary is subsequently transferred to him for a time. In that role, he attempts to revive the archaic Bajoran practice of the D'jarra caste system with dire results. It is later determined he is not in fact, the Emissary and is returned to his own time by the Prophets.
An outbreak of Tomeklian virus is reported on Bajor, requiring the inspection of all exported foodstuffs as a precautionary measure.
The Bajoran colony of Freehaven, near the Cardassian border, is targeted by Breen privateers. The Federation starship USS Defiant aides in driving away the pirates.
Political tensions between the Klingon Empire and the Federation escalate as Gowron initiates provacative action against several border worlds.
2373
Relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire disgress to a state of war. Numerous ships, colonies, outposts and stations are placed at the forefront of the conflict.
An attempt is made to destroy the Prophets by one of the fabled Pagh Wraiths, freed from the Fire Caves and inhabiting the body of a human female.
The Orb of Time is returned to the Bajoran people by the civilian Cardassian government in a gesture of peace.
After the return of an important icon featuring the ancient lost city of B'Hala, the Emissary, Cpt. Benjamin Sisko, experiences a pagh temfar and locates the lost city based on the icon. As part of his prophetic experience, the Emissary also warns against the immediate acceptance of Federation membership.
The Federation offers membership to Bajor, which is later postponed based on prophetic warnings from the Emissary, Cpt. Benjamin Sisko.
Poltical tensions in the region increased dramatically after the announcement of Cardassia's inclusion in the Dominion. The resulting permanent militarization of Jem'Hadar forces in the region have provoked a similar response from Starfleet as well as the Klingons, the Khitomer Accords reinstated. A Dominion attempt to destroy the Bajoran system by sending the Bajoran sun into supernova was thwarted by quick thinking on the part of the DS9 crew.
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