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'''1899''' was the final year of the [[19th century]]. The [[Sixth Doctor]] regarded 1899 as a time when London was extremely elegant, with "garden parties, [[Henley Regatta]], society balls, and country-house weekends". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'')

During this year, [[Great Britain]] was defended from alien attacks numerous times by both [[Torchwood Three]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' et al) and [[Henry Gordon Jago|Jago]] and [[George Litefoot|Litefoot]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)|The Justice of Jalxar]]'', ''[[The Carrionite Curse (audio story)|The Carrionite Curse]]'')

==Events==
===Dated===
[[File:9kkkk.jpg|left|thumb|Jack Harkness in 1899. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')]]
Early in the year, [[Jack Harkness]] was recruited by [[Torchwood Three]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')

On [[17 May]], [[Archie (The Victorian Age)|the director of Torchwood Three]] was killed by the [[Life-stealer]]. Shortly afterwards, Queen Victoria came to conduct her annual assessment of Torchwood. She pursued the alien across Cardiff with Jack Harkness and eventually aged it to death by forcing it to suck the life-force of a group of elderly people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'')

During the summer, the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] came to [[South Africa]] just after the [[Boer War]] started. They met the young reporter [[Winston Churchill]]. As part of a temporal game played by the [[Player]]s, an assassin was sent to kill Churchill so he wouldn't become a Prime Minister. The Doctor and Peri saved Churchill, but they were caught by the Boers and imprisoned in [[Pretoria]]. With the help of the [[Countess (Players)|Countes]], the Doctor, Peri, and Churchill escaped. The Doctor and Peri left in the TARDIS while Churchill fled to [[Mozambique]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'')

On [[26 December]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]] watched a [[Boxing Day]] [[mummers play]] in [[Stockbridge]]. The play recalled events in [[1199]] that the Doctor and Nyssa were soon to live through: overthrowing the [[Rutan]]s who inhabited [[Stockbridge Castle]]. The actor who played the [[dragon]] recalled his ancestor's experiences, and went mad. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Castle of Fear (audio story)|Castle of Fear]]'')

On [[31 December]], the [[Torchwood One]] agent [[Gerald Kneale]] assisted [[Torchwood Three]] with the [[Centurian Incident]] and its clean-up in [[Cardiff]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Rift War! (comic story)|Rift War! Part Six: Circles]]'')

===Undated===
The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]] encountered [[Henry Gordon Jago]], [[George Litefoot|Professor George Litefoot]] and the [[The Pugilist|Pugilist]] and fought [[Harvey Marsh]] in [[London]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Justice of Jalxar (audio story)|The Justice of Jalxar]]'')

[[File:From the Horse's Mouth.jpg|thumb|left|[[Clint Currie]] rides into a [[Wyoming]] town on [[Jata]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[From the Horse's Mouth (comic story)|From the Horse's Mouth]]'')]]
A [[Q7 starship]] carrying [[Jata]] crashed in [[Wyoming]]. Jata allied himself with [[Clint Currie]] and helped mastermind a number of big-time robberies. With the help of [[Molly Zook]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] caught Currie and took Jata back to [[Osumare]] in his TARDIS. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[From the Horse's Mouth (comic story)|From the Horse's Mouth]]'')

[[Reverend]] [[Wainwright (The Curse of Fenric)|Wainwright]]'s father translated the [[Viking]] rune inscriptions in his [[church]], concluding that a great evil was buried in its grounds. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')

Godfathers [[Morlock]] and [[Sabbath (Movers)|Sabbath]] of [[Faction Paradox]] came to a rural [[England|English]] village to conduct part of a ritual to prevent any enemies of the Faction from altering Sabbath's timeline. By killing his great-grandmother [[Fiora Venn]], Sabbath would prevent the birth of [[Fiora Venn's son|his grandfather]] and "cast himself adrift in history". However, the Godfathers found that they had arrived four weeks after the conception of Sabbath's grandfather. As killing Venn at this time could erase Sabbath from history, Sabbath killed Venn's niece [[Emma James]] to continue the ritual. James' best friend [[Justine McManus]] witnessed the murder and was recruited by Morlock into Faction Paradox. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Movers (audio story)|Movers]]'', ''[[A Labyrinth of Histories (audio story)|A Labyrinth of Histories]]'')

[[W. G. Grace]] played his last [[cricket]] match at [[Trent Bridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Havoc of Empires (audio story)|The Havoc of Empires]]'')

[[Henry Gordon Jago]] and Professor [[George Litefoot]] had an encounter with [[witch]]es. Jago was able to defeat them with his large vocabulary. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Carrionite Curse (audio story)|The Carrionite Curse]]'')

Jack Harkness was kidnapped when Torchwood Three began investigating the [[HMS Hades|HMS ''Hades'']]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Baby Farmers (short story)|The Baby Farmers]]'')

[[Emily Holroyd]], then leader of Torchwood Three, found a [[Sentient book (Consequences)|sentient book]] which had been sent through [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|the Rift]] by a [[2009|future]] Jack Harkness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]'')

==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
In early [[November]], [[Noël Coward]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')

===Undated===
[[Maurice (The Haunting of Malkin Place)|Maurice]] and [[Beatrice (The Haunting of Malkin Place)|Beatrice]] were born. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Haunting of Malkin Place (audio story)|The Haunting of Malkin Place]]'')

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