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== Events ==
[[File:1986 December 1986.jpg|thumb|A calendar showing December 1986. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Tenth Planet (TV story)}})]]
* [[1899]] - The [[Torchwood One]] agent [[Gerald Kneale]] assisted [[Torchwood Three]] with the [[Centurian Incident]] and its clean-up in [[Cardiff]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Rift War! Part Six: Circles (comic story)|Rift War! Part Six: Circles]]'')
'''31 December''' was the final day of [[December]] when many [[Earth]]-based cultures celebrated [[New Year's Eve]].
* [[1926]] - The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) played All India in the 2nd Unofficial Test match of the scene in [[Calcutta]], [[India|British India]]. The MCC won the match by four wickets. The [[Fifth Doctor]] considered it to be one of the best [[cricket]] matches of all time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emerald Tiger (audio story)|The Emerald Tiger]]'')
* [[1930]] - The [[Eighth Doctor]] and his companion [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] celebrated [[New Year's Eve]] in [[Singapore]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
* [[1999]] - The [[Seventh Doctor]] [[Regeneration|regenerated]] into his eighth incarnation. [[The Master]] took [[Bruce (Doctor Who)|Bruce]] [[The Master (Bruce)|as a host]]. The Master opened the [[Eye of Harmony]] and the Earth started to fluctuate. The Doctor closed the Eye and the Master was consumed by it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
* 1999 - The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]] saved the Earth from being taken over by [[Saraquazel]], a being from the [[After-Universe]], and his servant [[Ashley Chapel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'')
* 1999 - A younger version of the Seventh Doctor and an older version of Mel gate crashed the New Year's Eve party being thrown by [[Alisha Hammerson]], the [[Auton]] head of [[Hammerson Plastic PLC]], in [[London]]. They foiled her plan to replace her guests with Auton replicas so the Earth could be dominated and absorbed by severing her link to the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Plastic Millenium (comic story)|Plastic Millennium]]'')
* 1999 - The [[Fourth Doctor]] stopped the millennium bug as the [[New Year]] arrived. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennium Shock]]'')
* 1999 - While [[Jack Harkness]] fought a "[[Millennium Bug]]" of his own, [[Alex Hopkins]] killed the rest of his [[Torchwood Three]] team, then himself after Jack returned, just as the New Year arrived in [[Cardiff]]'s time zone. Harkness subsequently took over Torchwood Three ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')
* 1999 - [[Dave Young]] spent the entire evening trying to convince his girlfriend, [[Anji Kapoor]], that the millennium wouldn't actually begin for another year. Kapoor, for her part, thought this extreme pedantry meant their relationship was in trouble. This incident led to her insisting on [[New Year's Eve]] [[2000]] that the two of them spend [[2001]] doing "Wild and Spontaneous Things' — the result of which was the couple spontaneously going to [[Belgium]] in [[February]] [[2001]]. There, she met the Eighth Doctor and began [[companion|travelling with him]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Escape Velocity]]'')
* 1999 - The [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]] [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] and her companion [[Panda]] arrived in San Francisco in [[Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS|her TARDIS]]. Immediately after their arrival, Iris spilled [[gin]] into the bus' control and out into [[Time Vortex]], resulting in various different versions of Panda from [[parallel universe|alternative realities]] crossing over into the primary universe. With the assistance of [[George Strangeways|Dr. George Strangeways]], Iris was able to close the rift, though not before the Panda from the primary universe had been dragged into it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Panda Invasion (audio story)|The Panda Invasion]]'')
* [[2599]] - A New Years' party at the [[Braxiatel Collection]] was interrupted by murder. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doomsday Manuscript (novel)|The Doomsday Manuscript]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
==Holidays and observances==
* [[1927]] - [[Frank Gatliff]] ([[Ortron]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'') was born.
As the last day of [[December]], 31 [[December]] was the date of [[New Year's Eve]] celebrations for many [[Earth]]-based cultures. It was not a well-known holiday by the [[year]] [[4000]], as [[Sara Kingdom]] did not recognise it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)}})
* [[1966]] - Episode 3 of [[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders]]'' was first broadcast.


[[Category:Dates| 1231]]
==Events==
===Early years===
In [[1879]], [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] issued the [[Torchwood Charter]] and founded the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|New Girl (audio story)}})
 
In [[1899]], the [[Torchwood One]] agent [[Gerald Kneale]] assisted [[Torchwood Three]] with the [[Centurian Incident]] and its clean-up in [[Cardiff]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Rift War! (comic story)|part=Six: Circles}})
 
In [[1926]], the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) played [[All India]] in the [[Second Unofficial Test between All India and the MCC 1926|2nd Unofficial Test match]] of the scene in [[Calcutta]], [[India|British India]]. The MCC won the match by four [[wicket]]s. The [[Fifth Doctor]] considered it to be one of the best [[cricket]] matches of all time. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Emerald Tiger (audio story)}})
 
In [[1930]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] finally brought [[Charley Pollard]] to the [[Raffles Hotel]] in [[Singapore]], but [[Sebastian Grayle|an old enemy of the Doctor]] soon forced them to leave for a whirlwind tour of history. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Seasons of Fear (audio story)}})
 
In [[1965]], chasing the [[Dalek]]s, the [[First Doctor]] briefly materialised [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in [[Trafalgar Square]] during the New Year's Eve celebrations. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|namedpart=Volcano (8)}})
 
According to a [[calendar]] on the [[Snowcap]] base, 31 December [[1986]] was a [[Wednesday]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Tenth Planet (TV story)}}) On that day, [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]] reunited long after their travels with the [[Second Doctor]] had ended and they reflected on their time with him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mondas Passing (short story)}})
 
In [[1993]], [[Tko-Ma]] tried to escape his [[dimension]]al [[prison]]. He was stopped by the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Instruments of Darkness (novel)}})
 
===1999===
[[1999]] was an eventful [[year]] for 31 December.
 
The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Melanie Bush]] saved the Earth from being taken over by [[Saraquazel]], a being from the [[after-universe]], and his servant [[Ashley Chapel]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennial Rites (novel)}})
 
A younger version of the Seventh Doctor and an older version of Mel gate-crashed the New Year's Eve party being thrown by [[Alisha Hammerson]], the [[Auton]] head of [[Hammerson Plastic PLC]], in [[London]]. They foiled her plan to replace her guests with Auton replicas so the Earth could be dominated and absorbed by severing her link to the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Plastic Millenium (comic story)}})
 
Inside the [[Walker General Hospital]] morgue, after having his [[Regeneration|regenerative]] ability delayed by [[anaesthetic]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] regenerated into his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], forced his way out, and discovered his memories were gone too. The Doctor tried to convince Grace he was the same man she attended the [[30 December|previous day]], and recruited her to help him with his bout of [[amnesia]], eventually regaining his memories. Meanwhile, [[Chang Lee]], having pocketed the Doctor's [[TARDIS key]], began raiding it. The Master found Chang Lee in the TARDIS and manipulated him to open the [[Eye of Harmony]]. Opening the Eye destabilised [[Earth]]'s physics and the Master used it to begin stealing the Doctor's lives. The Doctor helped Grace put the TARDIS in a [[temporal orbit]], draining the power from the Eye and thwarting the Master. After the Master killed Grace and Lee, the Master fought the Doctor and fell into the Eye. The TARDIS reversed Lee and Grace's deaths and closed the Eye. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})
 
The [[Fourth Doctor]] stopped the [[Y2K bug]] as the [[2000|New Year]] arrived. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennium Shock (novel)}})
 
While [[Jack Harkness]] fought a "[[Millennium Bug]]" of his own, [[Alex Hopkins]] killed the rest of his [[Torchwood Three]] team, then [[suicide|himself]] after Jack returned, just as the [[New Year]] arrived in [[Cardiff]]'s time zone. He had been driven insane by the [[Last of Erebus]], which showed him dark things awaiting in the future. Hopkins tricked Jack to leave the Hub because he was [[Immortality|immortal]] and would have prevented Hopkins' "mercy killings." Harkness subsequently took over Torchwood Three, given the leadership by Alex just before he claimed his own life. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}}) Alex also spoke to [[Yvonne Hartman]] at [[Torchwood One]] of his epiphany beforehand on the [[phone]], as he shot the team. This incident made her realise that the [[Torchwood Institute]] needed a stronger leader to face the 21st century. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|One Rule (audio story)}})
 
[[Dave Young]] spent the entire evening trying to convince his girlfriend, [[Anji Kapoor]], that the millennium wouldn't actually begin for [[2001|another year]]. Kapoor, for her part, thought this extreme pedantry meant their relationship was in trouble. This incident led to her insisting on [[New Year's Eve]] [[2000]] that the two of them spend [[2001]] doing "Wild and Spontaneous Things' — the result of which was the couple spontaneously going to [[Belgium]] in [[February]] [[2001]]. There, she met the Eighth Doctor and began [[companion|travelling with him]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Escape Velocity (novel)}})
 
The [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] and her companion [[Panda]] arrived in San Francisco in [[Celestial Omnibus|her TARDIS]]. Immediately after their arrival, Iris spilled [[gin]] into the bus' control and out into the [[Time Vortex]], resulting in various different versions of Panda from [[parallel universe|alternative realities]] crossing over into the primary universe. With the assistance of [[George Strangeways|Dr George Strangeways]], Iris was able to close the rift, though not before the Panda from the primary universe had been dragged into it. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion (audio story)|The Panda Invasion}})
 
"[[Dara Morgan]]" suddenly came into being, and registered [[MorganTech]]. He was broadcast live on a news channel that same day. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Beautiful Chaos (novel)}})
 
In an [[alternate timeline]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Peri Brown]] and [[Erimem]] visited [[Edinburgh]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)}})
 
===Later years===
In [[2004]], [[Rose Tyler]] missed a New Year's Eve party, thereby allowing her to unwittingly meet the regenerating [[Tenth Doctor]] prior to her first encounter with the [[Ninth Doctor]] on [[4 March]] [[2005]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})
 
In [[2007]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] arrived at 8:00, and witnessed [[New Year's Eve]]. They had intended to go to [[1931]], Charley's time, as she wanted to leave. [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] had brought them to the wrong time because of a [[time hump]] on [[17 January]] [[1942]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)}})
 
In [[2020]], the [[European Space Agency]]'s [[Mars]] rover [[Leonardo (Life on Mars on Mars)|Leonardo]] discovered a copy of [[David Bowie]]'s ''[[Life on Mars]]'' which had been left on the planet by [[Erimem]] and [[Andy Hansen]] in [[2016]]. Most of the rover's mission control had been celebrating New Year's Eve at the time, and only [[John Wilcox (Life on Mars on Mars)|John Wilcox]] witnessed the find. Assuming it to be a prank by his colleagues, Wilcox did not record the rover's encounter with the album. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Life on Mars on Mars (short story)}})
 
In [[2021]], the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], [[Yasmin Khan|Yaz]], [[Dan Lewis|Dan]], [[Sarah (Eve of the Daleks)|Sarah]] and [[Nick (Eve of the Daleks)|Nick]] were trapped in a time loop with a squad of [[Dalek Executioner|Dalek executioners]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}})
 
In [[2066]], Jack Harkness visited a [[bar]] on [[Zog (planet)|Zog]]. There, an individual of [[Species (Overture)|an unnamed species]] gave him instructions for the either earlier or later version of him. This version, upon opening a box on [[7 August]] [[1941]], relived these experiences. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Overture (comic story)}})
 
In [[2599]], a New Year's Eve party at the [[Braxiatel Collection]] was interrupted by [[murder]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)|The Doomsday Manuscript}})
 
==Other==
In [[2018]], [[Astrid Ferrier]]'s helicopter registration was set to expire. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Enemy of the World (TV story)}})
 
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] left a [[homeless parent (Silent Knight)|homeless parent]] and [[homeless child (Silent Knight)|child]] a slip of paper containing [[lottery]] numbers, dated to 31 December, for [[Christmas]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Silent Knight (comic story)}})
 
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A calendar showing December 1986. (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"])

31 December was the final day of December when many Earth-based cultures celebrated New Year's Eve.

Holidays and observances

As the last day of December, 31 December was the date of New Year's Eve celebrations for many Earth-based cultures. It was not a well-known holiday by the year 4000, as Sara Kingdom did not recognise it. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"])

Events

Early years

In 1879, Queen Victoria issued the Torchwood Charter and founded the Torchwood Institute. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One [+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)"]; AUDIO: New Girl [+]Loading...["New Girl (audio story)"])

In 1899, the Torchwood One agent Gerald Kneale assisted Torchwood Three with the Centurian Incident and its clean-up in Cardiff. (COMIC: Rift War! (part six: circles) [+]Loading...{"part":"Six: Circles","1":"Rift War! (comic story)"})

In 1926, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) played All India in the 2nd Unofficial Test match of the scene in Calcutta, British India. The MCC won the match by four wickets. The Fifth Doctor considered it to be one of the best cricket matches of all time. (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger [+]Loading...["The Emerald Tiger (audio story)"])

In 1930, the Eighth Doctor finally brought Charley Pollard to the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, but an old enemy of the Doctor soon forced them to leave for a whirlwind tour of history. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear [+]Loading...["Seasons of Fear (audio story)"])

In 1965, chasing the Daleks, the First Doctor briefly materialised his TARDIS in Trafalgar Square during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (TV: "Volcano" [+]Part of The Daleks' Master Plan, Loading...{"namedpart":"Volcano (8)","1":"The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"})

According to a calendar on the Snowcap base, 31 December 1986 was a Wednesday. (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) On that day, Ben and Polly reunited long after their travels with the Second Doctor had ended and they reflected on their time with him. (PROSE: Mondas Passing [+]Loading...["Mondas Passing (short story)"])

In 1993, Tko-Ma tried to escape his dimensional prison. He was stopped by the Sixth Doctor. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"])

1999

1999 was an eventful year for 31 December.

The Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush saved the Earth from being taken over by Saraquazel, a being from the after-universe, and his servant Ashley Chapel. (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"])

A younger version of the Seventh Doctor and an older version of Mel gate-crashed the New Year's Eve party being thrown by Alisha Hammerson, the Auton head of Hammerson Plastic PLC, in London. They foiled her plan to replace her guests with Auton replicas so the Earth could be dominated and absorbed by severing her link to the Nestene Consciousness. (COMIC: Plastic Millenium [+]Loading...["Plastic Millenium (comic story)"])

Inside the Walker General Hospital morgue, after having his regenerative ability delayed by anaesthetic, the Seventh Doctor regenerated into his eighth incarnation, forced his way out, and discovered his memories were gone too. The Doctor tried to convince Grace he was the same man she attended the previous day, and recruited her to help him with his bout of amnesia, eventually regaining his memories. Meanwhile, Chang Lee, having pocketed the Doctor's TARDIS key, began raiding it. The Master found Chang Lee in the TARDIS and manipulated him to open the Eye of Harmony. Opening the Eye destabilised Earth's physics and the Master used it to begin stealing the Doctor's lives. The Doctor helped Grace put the TARDIS in a temporal orbit, draining the power from the Eye and thwarting the Master. After the Master killed Grace and Lee, the Master fought the Doctor and fell into the Eye. The TARDIS reversed Lee and Grace's deaths and closed the Eye. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

The Fourth Doctor stopped the Y2K bug as the New Year arrived. (PROSE: Millennium Shock [+]Loading...["Millennium Shock (novel)"])

While Jack Harkness fought a "Millennium Bug" of his own, Alex Hopkins killed the rest of his Torchwood Three team, then himself after Jack returned, just as the New Year arrived in Cardiff's time zone. He had been driven insane by the Last of Erebus, which showed him dark things awaiting in the future. Hopkins tricked Jack to leave the Hub because he was immortal and would have prevented Hopkins' "mercy killings." Harkness subsequently took over Torchwood Three, given the leadership by Alex just before he claimed his own life. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"]) Alex also spoke to Yvonne Hartman at Torchwood One of his epiphany beforehand on the phone, as he shot the team. This incident made her realise that the Torchwood Institute needed a stronger leader to face the 21st century. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])

Dave Young spent the entire evening trying to convince his girlfriend, Anji Kapoor, that the millennium wouldn't actually begin for another year. Kapoor, for her part, thought this extreme pedantry meant their relationship was in trouble. This incident led to her insisting on New Year's Eve 2000 that the two of them spend 2001 doing "Wild and Spontaneous Things' — the result of which was the couple spontaneously going to Belgium in February 2001. There, she met the Eighth Doctor and began travelling with him. (PROSE: Escape Velocity [+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])

The renegade Time Lady Iris Wildthyme and her companion Panda arrived in San Francisco in her TARDIS. Immediately after their arrival, Iris spilled gin into the bus' control and out into the Time Vortex, resulting in various different versions of Panda from alternative realities crossing over into the primary universe. With the assistance of Dr George Strangeways, Iris was able to close the rift, though not before the Panda from the primary universe had been dragged into it. (AUDIO: The Panda Invasion [+]Loading...["Iris Wildthyme and the Panda Invasion (audio story)","The Panda Invasion"])

"Dara Morgan" suddenly came into being, and registered MorganTech. He was broadcast live on a news channel that same day. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Loading...["Beautiful Chaos (novel)"])

In an alternate timeline, the Fifth Doctor, Peri Brown and Erimem visited Edinburgh. (PROSE: Graham Dilley Saves the World [+]Loading...["Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story)"])

Later years

In 2004, Rose Tyler missed a New Year's Eve party, thereby allowing her to unwittingly meet the regenerating Tenth Doctor prior to her first encounter with the Ninth Doctor on 4 March 2005. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

In 2007, the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard arrived at 8:00, and witnessed New Year's Eve. They had intended to go to 1931, Charley's time, as she wanted to leave. The TARDIS had brought them to the wrong time because of a time hump on 17 January 1942. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"])

In 2020, the European Space Agency's Mars rover Leonardo discovered a copy of David Bowie's Life on Mars which had been left on the planet by Erimem and Andy Hansen in 2016. Most of the rover's mission control had been celebrating New Year's Eve at the time, and only John Wilcox witnessed the find. Assuming it to be a prank by his colleagues, Wilcox did not record the rover's encounter with the album. (PROSE: Life on Mars on Mars [+]Loading...["Life on Mars on Mars (short story)"])

In 2021, the Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Dan, Sarah and Nick were trapped in a time loop with a squad of Dalek executioners. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"])

In 2066, Jack Harkness visited a bar on Zog. There, an individual of an unnamed species gave him instructions for the either earlier or later version of him. This version, upon opening a box on 7 August 1941, relived these experiences. (COMIC: Overture [+]Loading...["Overture (comic story)"])

In 2599, a New Year's Eve party at the Braxiatel Collection was interrupted by murder. (PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (novel)","The Doomsday Manuscript"])

Other

In 2018, Astrid Ferrier's helicopter registration was set to expire. (TV: The Enemy of the World [+]Loading...["The Enemy of the World (TV story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor left a homeless parent and child a slip of paper containing lottery numbers, dated to 31 December, for Christmas. (COMIC: Silent Knight [+]Loading...["Silent Knight (comic story)"])