First Jedi Purge

"The Jedi Temple on Coruscant lies empty. The waters in the Room of a Thousand Fountains have fallen still, in reverence to the fallen Jedi… and those now lost."

- Darth Traya/Kreia on the purge The First Jedi Purge was a major event that occured during the Old Republic Era of the Star Wars franchise and is a key event of the Star Wars history. The First Jedi Purge was instigated in 3954 BBY following the Battle of Rakata Prime and the end of the Jedi Civil War which saw the near-destruction of the Jedi Order and the near-extinction of the entire Jedi from the galaxy.

Origins
By the year 3956 BBY, the Jedi Order had gone through one of its most turbulent periods in its long history enduring three galaxy-wide wars that occured over the span of fifty years, two of which were instigated by fallen members of the order. In the aftermath of the devestation, the Jedi Order was severly weakened with less than a hundred of them having actually survived the conflict and having its ranks severly depleted as well.

The order had fallen to a shell of its former self with thousands of its members having been killed during the Great Sith Wars, the Mandalorian Wars, and the Jedi Civil War and all of the conflicts together had not given the Jeid enough time to effectively rebuild their numbers and weren'r able to sustain heavy losses over a long period of time.