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In '''2009''', [[ATMOS]], a combination [[GPS]]/emission control system for [[automobile]]s, became widespread in vehicles around [[Earth|the world]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]] / [[The Poison Sky]]'') Also before Easter [[Rose Tyler]] temporarily returned from [[Pete's World|her parallel Earth]], to arrive in [[Normal Space|her home universe]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'') but later entered [[Donna's World|another universe]], where she attained a position of authority with [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and worked with them and Donna Noble to restore the timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
'''2009''' was a [[year]].


== Events ==
== Events ==
=== January - March ===
=== Dated events ===
[[Dr]] [[Owen Harper]] still had difficulty accepting his new undead existence. He was relieved of his duties with [[Torchwood Three]], though he continued as their [[tea]] boy. [[Martha Jones]] stayed on as medical officer. After attempting [[suicide]], Harper began to come to terms with his death. He returned to active duty for a mission to steal an [[alien]] artefact from a dying millionaire, [[Henry Parker]], who revealed intimate knowledge about Torchwood and its personnel before he passed away. With Owen Harper reinstated, Martha left for her duties at [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]]. Soon after, Owen talked [[Maggie Hopley|a young woman]] out of [[suicide]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'')
==== January - May ====
<!--Donna's era and the early 21st century setting of the 2009 specials have been moved to 2000s, due to heavily contradictory dating in series 4, and no date at all in the specials.-->
On [[20 January]], [[Barack Obama]] was inaugurated as [[President of the United States]], the first [[African-American]] in the position. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')


On the night of her bachelorette party, Gwen Cooper was made the host of a [[Nostrovite]] offspring whose mother was waiting to pull it straight out of Gwen's womb. At her and [[Rhys Williams]]' [[wedding]], Rhys destroyed the unborn Nostrovite young with the [[singularity scalpel]] without harming Gwen, and Jack Harkness killed the mother. Gwen married Rhys. ([[TV]]: ''[[Something Borrowed (TV story)|Something Borrowed]]'')
Early in the year, over 4 months before August, [[Thomas Brewster]] and [[Gerry Lenz|Gerald Lendler]] came to [[London]]. At the time, Lendler had stolen [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] from Brewster. When Brewster rummaged through Lendler's collection of valuable items, he accidentally woke up a hibernating [[Coffin-Loader]] and it escaped into the [[River Thames]]. It released methane and mould into the atmosphere, which increased Earth's temperature by 1 degree. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'')


The Torchwood Three team investigated the [[Night Travellers]], and defeated them by trapping their celluloid forms on film and exposing the film. ([[TV]]: ''[[From Out of the Rain]]'')
[[File:Vostok.jpg|thumb|right|[[Owen Harper]] finds a [[Vostok (species)|Vostok]] in [[Cardiff Bay]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Return of the Vostok (comic story)|The Return of the Vostok]]'')]]
In [[March]], the [[Vostok (species)|Vostok]] came to [[Cardiff]] with the intentions of using its rift to bring the Earth into a new [[Ice Age]]. Torchwood Three visited [[Cardiff Bay]] after it was frozen and discovered the Vostok beneath the ice. They defeated the Vostok by covering the ice in fuel and dropping a match in the fuel, burning the Vostok alive. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Return of the Vostok (comic story)|The Return of the Vostok]]'')


Gwen Cooper investigated the disappearance of [[Jonah Bevan]] and others lost through the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]]. She found [[Flat Holm]] Island, where some of those apparently returned by the Rift were kept. Nikki Bevan met her son, who had only vanished seven months previously, now much older. She was forced to leave Jonah at Flat Holm, after hearing an unearthly shriek come from him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adrift]]'')
One account, [[Aliens of London dating controversy|but not others]], which suggested this time as [[2008]], placed [[15 May]] 2009 as the start of the [[Mandragora Helix]]'s attempted takeover of Earth through the [[MorganTech]] computer systems. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'')


=== March ===
==== June - August ====
[[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|Captain John Hart]] placed bombs in an abandoned building Torchwood  were investigating. After they escaped, John showed Jack a hologram of Gray. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'')
On [[6 June]], the [[Atraxi]] [[Dimensional transcendentalism|extradimensional]] [[prison]] break occurred. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')


The [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] team regained consciousness. They tried to stop [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]]. That night aliens attacked [[Cardiff]]. [[Weevil]]s killed four [[police]] officers. A [[Hoix]] ran loose in a [[hospital]], to be captured by [[Owen Harper]]. Men in cloaks haunting a building and were [[murder|shot dead]] by [[Toshiko Sato]] and [[Ianto Jones]]. John Hart captured [[Jack Harkness]] and set off bombs in key buildings across Cardiff. Jack's brother [[Gray]] was forcing John Hart to do his bidding. Gray sent Jack back to [[27|27 A.D.]] to be buried. Jack was discovered in [[1901]] and stored in Torchwood's cryo-chamber to be re-awakened. Gray unleashed all of the Weevils in Cardiff's sewers and shot Toshiko. She later died of her wounds. Owen was destroyed by nuclear radiation which flooded into the room he was in, which consumed his body. This resulted in his permanent death. Cardiff was saved. The other members of Torchwood who survived the ordeal then decommissioned Owen and Tosh's database access  through a final logout. In Tosh's case, it triggered a message she recorded in the event of her death, saying her final goodbyes to the team and confessing her love for Owen.  ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds]]'')
On [[28 June]], [[Stephen Hawking]] held a [[party]] for [[time travel]]lers at [[Gonville & Caius College]], but he only sent out invitations after the [[event]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')


=== Spring, prior to Easter ===
Sometime before 18 August, [[Polly Wright]] read a blog post by [[Jo Grant|Jo Jones]] about Jo's encounter with [[Doreen Killebrew]] in the [[1970s]]. From this blog post, she learned that [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] knew the Doctor and they began exchanging emails on their past adventures with him. Eventually, they were contacted by Thomas Brewster, who thought they could help him deal with Gerald Lendler.
[[Martha Jones]] called in Torchwood Three for help at [[CERN]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lost Souls]]'')


Conspiracy theorists  and [[Donna Noble]] had begun noting the disappearance of [[bee]]s from the planet [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]'', et al) They had left Earth in anticipation of its imminent relocation to the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
On [[18 August]], Polly and Alistair met up with Brewster at a restaurant where Brewster had been working for three weeks. Lendler had hired [[The Hunter|an alien hunter]] to deal with the creature. The Coffin-Loader came out of the River Thames and parts of London were flooded. Using Alistair as bait for the Coffin-Loader, the Hunter lured it to [[Trafalgar Square]] and killed it, returning Earth's climate to normal. Afterwards, with some convincing from Polly and Alistair, Lendler gave the Doctor's TARDIS back to Brewster. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'')


Donna Noble investigated [[Adipose Industries]] and met the [[Tenth Doctor]] again. [[Cofelia|Matron Cofelia]] forced [[March of the Adipose|the birth of thousands of Adipose]] from [[London]]ers' bodies. The Doctor and Donna turned off the parthenogenesis signal before it proved fatal. The [[Adipose]] were sent into [[nursery ship|their ship]], and Cofelia was killed by the [[Adipose First Family]] to cover up seeding a [[Level 5 planet]]. Donna joined the Doctor in the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. Before leaving with the Doctor, she encountered [[Rose Tyler]], unaware of who she was. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]])''
==== September - December ====
Members of the [[Stockbridge]] Preservation Society began to go missing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')


[[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] investigated the simultaneous deaths of fifty-two people across the world, all in [[ATMOS]]-equipped vehicles. Dr. Martha Jones, now working for UNIT, called in the Tenth Doctor. [[Operation Blue Sky|UNIT raided an ATMOS factory]]. The [[Sontaran]]s captured Martha and cloned her. As part of a Sontaran invasion plan, all ATMOS-equipped vehicles, half of all cars on Earth, emitted a toxic gas. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
[[File:Newspaper Wed Sept 2009 CoE ep2.png|thumb|Newspaper [[Ianto Jones]] picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')]]
On 8:40AM [[GMT]] on a [[Wednesday]] in [[September]], every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message, "We are coming", repeatedly, in English. Behind the scenes, the [[British government]] knew this came from [[the 456]], a race who had visited Earth before. [[Gwen Cooper]] spoke to [[Clement McDonald]], who also stopped and said the message, He told Gwen that when he was a child, the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away, with him almost being taken too. Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')


The TARDIS, with Donna Noble inside, was taken to the [[Sontaran flagship]]. [[Sontaran invasion of Earth|The Sontarans invaded the ATMOS factory]], but UNIT retook it. The Doctor found Martha with [[Martha Jones (clone)|her clone]]'s help. The clone's link was severed. Before dying, she revealed the ATMOS gas would be used to clone Sontarans. With Donna's aid, the Doctor retook his TARDIS and used the technology from the [[Rattigan Academy]] to create an [[atmospheric converter]] to destroy the gas. [[Luke Rattigan]], learning his plans to start a new world with his students had failed, swapped places with the Doctor and destroyed the Sontaran fleet and himself. The TARDIS, with Martha inside as well as the Doctor and Donna, suddenly started moving on its own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'')
Jack, his body slowly reconstituting itself, was held by Johnson, while Gwen went on the run from the British government, revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant. The children on Earth stopped again to say, "We are coming...tomorrow". [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] built a container for the 456 to specification, filled with unusual gases. [[Lois Habiba]] revealed to Gwen that [[John Frobisher]] was behind the death orders for Torchwood. Johnson sealed Jack in concrete, but [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] arrived, releasing him. Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')


The Earth and twenty-three other planets were relocated to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by the [[Dalek]]s (with three other planets, [[Adipose 3]], [[Pyrovillia]] and the [[Lost Moon of Poosh]] from other time zones) by the [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Empire)|Supreme Dalek]] and [[Davros]]. The Tenth Doctor went to the [[Shadow Proclamation]] and tracked the Earth to the Medusa Cascade before the trail went cold. An invasion of Earth by the Daleks began and [[human]]s were taken to the [[Crucible]]. The British Prime Minister was shot down by Daleks. Former Prime Minister [[Harriet Jones]] contacted some of the Doctor's former companions, including Captain Jack Harkness, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and Martha Jones, to reach the Tenth Doctor, using the Cardiff Rift and [[Mr Smith]], before she herself was killed by the Daleks. Rose Tyler, meanwhile, contacted Donna Noble's family and was reunited with the Doctor, having broken through to the out-of-sync Cascade. ([[TV]]: [[The Stolen Earth]])
The [[456 ambassador]] materialised in the gassy container in [[Thames House]]. They demanded 10% of all of Earth's children. Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965, and Jack staid it was for the 456. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Three]]'')


The Tenth Doctor underwent a partial regeneration to heal damage from a Dalek blast. He threw his regenerative energy into his old hand. The TARDIS was taken to the Crucible. Humans were used for tests of the [[reality bomb]]. The TARDIS was almost destroyed in the Crucible's Z-neutrino core, but the energy-infused hand formed into [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|a human Time-Lord Meta-Crisis clone]] of the Doctor after making physical contact with Donna Noble, safely piloting the TARDIS away. Sarah Jane threatened the Crucible with a warp star, while Martha planned to blow up Earth, stopping the use of the reality bombs. Davros and the Daleks quickly stopped them. The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna attempted an attack on Davros but failed. The electricity from his hand awakened her dormant Time Lord mind, the regeneration energy from earlier having spread both ways, turning her into the "[[DoctorDonna]]". Donna used a Dalek interface to shut down the Crucible and disable the Daleks and was able to send all but one planet home, while the Meta-Crisis Doctor finished off the Daleks. The Doctor and his companions towed the remaining planet, Earth, home with the TARDIS; this sparked worldwide celebrations around the planet. Afterwards, [[Mickey Smith]] chose to remain on his original Earth instead of returning to [[Pete's World]]. Jack and Martha went back to their respective jobs, and the Doctor returned Rose and [[Jackie Tyler]] to [[Pete's World]], along with his clone, whom he considered unsafe. He asked Rose to help the clone, as she had helped him. [[Donna Noble]] was returned to her family with all memories of the Doctor wiped from her mind due to the danger to her survival posed by her transformation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965. At Thames House, the 456 ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system, unaging. As negotiations failed, the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10%, which Lois recorded with Torchwood's [[Eye-5]] contact lenses as incriminating evidence. The 456 killed Clem. Jack and Ianto faced the 456, but were also killed, along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus. Jack revived, upset over his loss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Four]]'')


During these events, a young [[Adelaide Brooke]] lost her family and saw a Dalek. For reasons unknown to her, it chose not to exterminate her. This inspired her to become an astronaut, a trailblazer for human exploration of space — in her case, establishing the first human base on [[Mars]] in [[2058]] and, in turn, inspiring generations of Brookes who would impel humanity to reach into the stars. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'')
The British government started sending the 10% to the 456, labelling it "inoculations". The ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs. The Prime Minister informed John Frobisher that his children would be among those handed over to the 456. Unable to cope with this, Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide. Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could. Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456, but sacrificed his grandson [[Steven Carter|Steven]] to set it up. Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')


In the aftermath of the Medusa Cascade incident, the human race began coming to terms with the fact it was not alone in the universe. While many accepted it, others experienced crises of faith and many committed suicide. [[Brian Green]] became British Prime Minister before [[September]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
On [[Halloween]] in 2009, the [[Gelth]] attempted to pass through a [[rift]] in [[Space-time continuum|space and time]] which had opened in [[Ratchett Abbey]], [[Cheltenham]], but were eventually stopped by the Tenth Doctor and [[Corynne Fletcher]]. ([[PROSE]]: [[Scared Stiff (short story)|''Scared Stiff'']])


The last survivor of the ATMOS Sontaran invasion, Commander [[Kaagh]], tried to destroy Earth by commandeering the [[Tycho Project]] in [[Goblin's Copse]], landing satellites onto nuclear stockpiles. He was thwarted when [[Luke Smith]] shut down the project and [[Chrissie Jackson]] attacked Kaagh's [[probic vent]], knocking him out. Kaagh left Earth disgraced. Chrissie Jackson became aware of aliens and of Sarah Jane and her team's fight against them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'', at least six weeks before the events of ''[[The Day of the Clown]]'')
In mid-December, the Aurelia Festival was held in [[Stockbridge]]. The Tenth Doctor and new companion [[Majenta Pryce]] arrived to find themselves involved in an adventure with [[Maxwell Edison]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')


On [[12 April]], [[Easter]], [[the 200]] bus travelled through a wormhole, leaving several passengers, including the Tenth Doctor and [[Christina de Souza|Lady Christina de Souza]], stranded on the desert planet [[San Helios]], which had been turned into a sandy wasteland within the last year by [[Stingray|alien stingrays]] which had started approaching the wormhole to devour Earth. Using some [[Tritovore]] [[anti-gravity clamp]]s taken by Lady Christina, the 200 flew through the wormhole safely. The wormhole was closed and the handful of stingrays which made it through were destroyed by UNIT. The Doctor declined Lady Christina's offer to join the TARDIS, but helped her evade arrest. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'')
On the [[12 December|12th of December]], [[Brenda]] sent out a [[Letter (Brenda's B&B)|letter]] to the readers of the [[Brenda and Effie|book series]] based upon herself and [[Effie Jacobs|Effie]], inviting them to visit [[Brenda's B&B|her B&B]] in [[Whitby]], [[North Yorkshire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Brenda's B&B (short story)|Brenda's B&B]]'')


[[12 May]] was Adelaide Brooke's tenth birthday. (birthdate seen in [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'')
<!--The setting of The End of Time is not dated at all. Moved to 2000s.-->
On [[25 December]], the Tenth Doctor and his companion [[Heather McCrimmon]] visited the village of [[Stillmuir]] to celebrate [[Christmas]] with Heather's family. The celebrations were interrupted by three blue-skinned aliens who wanted to learn about Christmas. They transported the entire village away from Earth to a giant snow globe where they could observe the humans. The Doctor talked with the aliens and invited them to observe Christmas by attending the McCrimmon family's celebrations if they returned the village to Earth. The aliens agreed and spent Christmas night celebrating. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Merry Little Christmas (comic story)|A Merry Little Christmas]]'')


From [[15 May]] to [[18 May]], the [[Mandragora Helix]] attempted a takeover of Earth through the MorganTech computer systems. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos]]'')
=== Undated ===
By this year, [[Polly Wright]] worked in the [[Westminster|City of Westminster]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Three Companions (audio story)|The Three Companions]]'')


=== Spring - summer ===
[[Professor]] [[Egen]], a time traveller from [[1959]], briefly stopped in 2009 during his first (and ultimately only) journey through time in his [[Egen's time machine|experimental time machine]]. He looked at a 21st century city full of skyscrapers, which looked "ultra-modern", as he had expected — but, precisely because he had expected it, found it underwhelming, prompting him to move on to the more distant future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 33 comic story)|Dr. Who's Time Tales]]'')
[[Maria Jackson|Maria]] and [[Alan Jackson]] moved to [[America]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran]]'')


[[Rani Chandra]] and her family moved to [[Bannerman Road]]. [[Clyde Langer|Clyde]] and Rani investigated [[Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus]]. The owner, [[Elijah Spellman]], was the [[clown]] and the [[Pied Piper]], having come from a meteorite in the [[Jeggorabax Cluster]] centuries before. The Piper gathered children he had given balloons to, but Mr Smith interfered by contacting their mobile phones. Clyde, weakening the fear-eating Pied Piper with humour, allowed Sarah Jane to trap the Piped Piper back inside [[Weserbergland meteorite|his meteorite]], releasing the children who had been recently taken by him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Clown]]'')
A broken [[Filbik colour coder]] leaked a [[rainbow]] over a town in England, causing anyone who touched it to change colour and fall [[unconscious]] before being transported to a [[Filbik storage ship|storage ship]]. When [[Bobby (The End of the Rainbow)|Bobby]] explained the mishap to the [[Filbik]] they politely agreed to return all of the [[sample]]s taken by accident. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The End of the Rainbow (short story)|The End of the Rainbow]]'')


[[Martin Trueman]], using the power of the [[Ancient Lights]], started enslaving every human on Earth using [[astrology]]. Luke, not having a starsign, defeated him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars]]'')
[[Gareth (Doctor Who)|Gareth]], head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system was credited for saving the human race several times. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')


Rani Chandra discovered the [[Berserker pendant]]. [[Clyde Langer]]'s father [[Paul Langer|Paul]] came to visit him after having walked out on his family years before. Paul took and was possessed by the pendant, but Sarah Jane and the team brought him back to himself. Clyde threw the pendant into the sea. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker]]'')
[[Kate Maguire]] first encountered the Tenth Doctor. However, he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an [[Auton]] invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autonomy (novel)|Autonomy]]'')


[[The Trickster]] used a time fissure to trick Sarah Jane into saving her parents' lives in [[1951]] and created an alternate timeline where he drained the life out of Earth and enslaved humanity. Sarah Jane and her friends returned to 2009 after Sarah Jane's parents, [[Eddie Smith|Eddie]] and [[Barbara Smith]], prevented this alternate timeline by sacrificing themselves in 1951. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
A crashed [[Terpsivore]] spaceship was buried under [[Birmingham]] before being repaired and leaving in 2009. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death Disco (comic story)|Death Disco]]'')


[[Mrs Wormwood]] and Commander Kaagh became allies in the light of Wormwood's exile from the [[Bane (Invasion of the Bane)|Bane]] and Kaagh's self-imposed exile from the Sontarans. Taking the [[Tunguska Scroll]] from Sarah Jane and her gang, they used Luke to place the scroll on the "tomb" of [[Horath]], the tyrant of the [[Dark Empire]], to bring him back. Kaagh, disgraced by Wormwood's preference for her "son" Luke, pushed Wormwood into the interdimensional portal that held Horath, destroying the link. ([[TV]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]'')
[[Rani Chandra]] visited a [[Krulius]] spaceship. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Krulius (comic story)|Return of the Krulius]]'')


The [[Veil]] [[Androvax]] crashed in [[Ealing]], followed by the [[Judoon]] [[Tybo]]. Androvax escaped to [[Genetec Systems]], using [[Nanoform]]s to build a spaceship and destroy Earth. Luke deactivated the Nanoforms, and Tybo arrested Androvax. Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon. ([[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon]]'')
[[Ellie Faber]] became [[homeless]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story)|The Curse of Clyde Langer]]'')


Rani was called to [[Danemouth]] by [[Samuel Lloyd]] to investigate a haunted funfair. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde followed. Rani found [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]], whose powers were out of control. Eve was taken to [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] to control them. Sarah Jane gave Ship the co-ordinates to the black hole [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] was protecting, freeing him and powering Ship. Eve, Samuel and Eve's adopted father [[Harry Sowersby|Harry]] left in Ship to explore the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')
[[Phil Houseman]]'s ''[[The Myth of Artificial Intelligence]]'' was published. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Theatre of War (novel)|Theatre of War]]'')


[[Peter Dalton]] was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith, but the [[Tenth Doctor]] interfered. The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop, with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor, Clyde and Rani in another. Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died. Time resumed its natural course. With Peter nowhere to be seen, Sarah Jane called the wedding off. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
[[Julia Hardwick]] was sent back in time by a [[Weeping Angel]] when she was in a [[graveyard]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas (webcast)|A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'')


At [[Ashen Hill Manor]], Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension, keeping [[Erasmus Darkening]] alive. Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap]]'')
The nine-year-old [[Sally Morgan]]'s parents were killed in the [[Middle East]] when their convoy was ambushed. From then onwards, she was raised by her grandfather. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')


The ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' was in the [[International Gallery]] in London, on loan from the [[Louvre]]. Due to her proximity to ''[[The Abomination (Mona Lisa's Revenge)|The Abomination]]'', made from the same sentient paint as the ''Mona Lisa'', Mona Lisa was brought to life. She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life, who shot at ''The Abomination''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'')
[[Jack Odwards]] swam the [[English Channel]] to raise money for [[Chuckle-Aid]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379) (audio story)|Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379)]]'')


The [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] captured some [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], stopping them from destroying the Earth. The Slitheen-Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a [[Rakweed]] plant, which the next day mutated, sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma. Mr Smith used a high-pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants, and when the Slitheen-Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane, he did so again, destroying their Rakweed-saturated bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'')
The [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]] visited London for a few days during their travels. The Doctor met [[Miranda Peel]] on a [[Tuesday]] and a [[Wednesday]] on the [[London Underground]] while Jamie and Zoe explored the city. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Favourite Star (short story)|Favourite Star]]'')


=== Summer - autumn ===
One of [[Abslom Daak]]'s ancestors was found guilty by [[Intersol]] for crimes against [[New Devonia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Crimson Hand (comic story)|The Crimson Hand]]'')
Members of the [[Stockbridge]] Preservation Society began to go missing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')


A half-[[Ghosty|alien]], half-human girl named [[Freda]] was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]'')
The [[Abzorbaloff (The Genuine Article)|Abzorbaloff]] met the Tenth Doctor in Cardiff, wanting to revenge his [[Abzorbaloff|son]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[The Genuine Article (webcast)|The Genuine Article]]'')


Torchwood Three discovered [[Torchwood India]] still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians, with plans to roll back time to Britain's empire across the world. Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]'')
According to [[Brent Cleever]], [[William Frazer|Sir William Frazer]] and [[Lady Frazer]] settled on [[Mars]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Biography — 21 (short story)|Biography — 21]]'')


Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dead Line]]'')
In [[2323]], [[Dr]] [[Olivia Kagg Waldermein]] wrote of the "[[2005]]-2009 [[Russell T Davies (in-universe)|Davies]]-[[Julie Gardner (in-universe)|Gardner]] [[Doctor Who (in-universe)|account]]" of the "[[Last Lightbringer]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}})


Rhys Williams' [[Bryn Williams|uncle Bryn]] died. Torchwood Three investigated mysterious power cuts and [[Joanna Carew|Miss Carew]]. She was a woman in her eighties who was fit and at work after being on her deathbed not long before. Carew worked with [[Fitzroy (The Devil and Miss Carew)|Fitzroy]] to destroy all electricity on Earth, but was stopped. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil and Miss Carew]]'')
==== Prior to 456 incursion ====
[[Aliens of London dating controversy|Contradicting other sources]], one account placed this year as the time Torchwood discovered the skeleton of a [[Cardiff]] [[Soldier (Greeks Bearing Gifts)|soldier]] from [[1812]] who died when his heart was ripped out. According to this account, Ianto, [[Owen Harper]], and [[Toshiko Sato]] were still active in Torchwood. ([[TV]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'')


Torchwood Three, working in cooperation with UNIT, tracked a distress signal to the [[Mariana Trench]] and discovered [[Sam Doyle]] of the ''[[Guernica (submarine)|Guernica]]'', who hadn't aged in fifty years. The team defeated [[Parasite (Submission)|the entity]] possessing him which later entered [[Carlie Roberts]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Submission]]'')
A half-[[Ghosty|alien]], half-human girl named [[Freda]] was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Asylum (audio story)|Asylum]]'')


[[File:Newspaper_Wed_Sept_2009_CoE_ep2.png|thumb|Newspaper [[Ianto Jones]] picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')]]
Torchwood Three discovered [[Torchwood India]] still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians, with plans to roll back time to Britain's empire across the world. Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Golden Age (audio story)|Golden Age]]'')


Every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message, "We are coming", repeatedly, all them in English. Behind the scenes, the [[British government]] knew this came from [[the 456]], a race who had visited Earth before. Gwen Cooper spoke to [[Clement McDonald]], who also stopped and said the message, He told Gwen that when he was a child, the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away, with him almost being taken too. Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'')
Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dead Line (audio story)|The Dead Line]]'')<!--Removed "The Devil and Miss Carew" and "Submission". See Behind the scenes.-->


Jack, his body slowly reconstituting itself, was held by Johnson, while Gwen went on the run from the British government, revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant. The children on Earth stopped again to say, "We are coming...tomorrow". [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] built a container for the 456 to specification, filled with unusual gases. [[Lois Habiba]] revealed to Gwen that [[John Frobisher]] was behind the death orders for Torchwood. Johnson sealed Jack in concrete, but Ianto arrived, releasing him. Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')
Captain Jack and [[Gwen Cooper]] searched for an [[Torrosett 51 binary heat-cannon|alien heat-gun]] on [[Cardiff|Cardiff's]] [[Arthur Machen estate|Machen estate]]. While doing so, they inadvertently caused a parasitic [[Czisch|alien baby]] to unlatch from [[Pam Feerce|its host]], causing the host to kill herself and the baby. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wrong Hands (short story)|The Wrong Hands]]'') When the baby's [[Alien father (Virus)|father]] discovered this, he sought revenge on [[Torchwood Three]] and infected Jack and Gwen with the [[Kagawa Virus]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Virus (short story)|Virus]]'')


The [[456 ambassador]] materialised in the gassy container in [[Thames House]]. They demanded 10% of all of Earth's children. Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965, and Jack staid it was for the 456. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Three]]'')
Torchwood Three recovered a [[Sentient book (Consequences)|sentient book]] from [[Cardiff University Library]], which had been stealing people's [[Memory|memories]] and converting them into [[Story|stories]]. The book was indestructible, so to release its grasp on [[Nina Rogers]] Jack decided to send it back in time to [[1899]], where [[Emily Holroyd]] would secretly place it in the [[university]] [[library]] and so trap it in a [[time loop]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Consequences (short story)|Consequences]]'')


Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965. At Thames House, the 456 ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system, unaging. As negotiations failed, the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10%, which Lois recorded with Torchwood's [[Eye-5]] contact lenses as incriminating evidence. The 456 killed Clem. Jack and Ianto faced the 456, but were also killed, along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus. Jack revived, upset over his loss. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Four]]'')
==== Undated adventures of Sarah Jane Smith & friends ====
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The [[Veil (species)|Veil]] [[Androvax]] crashed in [[Ealing]], followed by the [[Judoon]] [[Tybo]]. Androvax escaped to [[Genetec Systems]], using [[Nanoform]]s to build a spaceship and destroy Earth. Luke deactivated the Nanoforms, and Tybo arrested Androvax. Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon. ([[TV]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)|Prisoner of the Judoon]]'')


The British government started sending the 10% to the 456, labelling it "inocculations". The ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs. Unable to cope with this, Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide. Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could. Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456, but sacrificed his grandson [[Steven Carter|Steven]] to set it up. Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')
Rani was called to [[Danemouth]] by [[Samuel Lloyd]] to investigate a haunted [[funfair]]. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde followed. Rani found [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]], whose powers were out of control. Eve was taken to [[Ship (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Ship]] to control them. Sarah Jane gave Ship the co-ordinates to the black hole [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] was protecting, freeing him and powering Ship. Eve, Samuel and Eve's adopted father [[Harry Sowersby|Harry]] left in Ship to explore the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')
: Children of Earth ''dates based upon on-screen evidence, specifically a newspaper headline.''


Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani fought and killed a [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]], while [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] defused a bomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man]]'')
[[Peter Dalton]] was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith, but the [[Tenth Doctor]] interfered. The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop, with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor, Clyde and Rani in another. Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died. Time resumed its natural course. With Peter nowhere to be seen, Sarah Jane called the wedding off. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')


In mid-December, the Aurelia Festival was held in [[Stockbridge]]. The Tenth Doctor and new companion [[Majenta Pryce]] arrived to find themselves involved in an adventure with [[Maxwell Edison]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')
At [[Ashen Hill Manor]], Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension, keeping [[Erasmus Darkening]] alive. Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eternity Trap (TV story)|The Eternity Trap]]'')


On [[24 December]], {{Simm}} was resurrected by [[Trefusis|Miss Trefusis]] and the new governor of [[Broadfell Prison]] on Christmas Eve. Lucy Saxon caused an explosion at the prison, killing everyone inside, except for the Master. The White House announced that President [[Barack Obama]] would make a Christmas Day speech announcing new economic initiatives to resolve the current worldwide economic crisis. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
The ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' was in the [[International Gallery]] in London, on loan from the [[Louvre]]. Due to her proximity to ''[[The Abomination (Mona Lisa's Revenge)|The Abomination]]'', made from the same sentient paint as the ''Mona Lisa'', Mona Lisa was brought to life. She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life, who shot at ''The Abomination''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'')


On [[25 December]], the Master was captured by soldiers working for [[Joshua Naismith]] to help him use the [[Immortality Gate]]. The Master betrayed him and, as Obama gave a speech on the recession, used the Gate, intended to heal planets, to turn every human on Earth except Donna Noble and [[Wilfred Mott]] into copies of the Master. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
The [[Slitheen-Blathereen family]] captured some [[Slitheen family|Slitheen]], stopping them from destroying the Earth. The Slitheen-Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a [[Rakweed]] plant, which the next day mutated, sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma. Mr Smith used a high-pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants, and when the Slitheen-Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane, he did so again, destroying their Rakweed-saturated bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Gift (TV story)|The Gift]]'')
 
On [[26 December]], a diamond called a [[White-Point Star]] was sent from [[Gallifrey]] through time and space and crashed to Earth, where it was retrieved by the Master. He used it to open a portal that allowed [[Rassilon]] and other [[Time Lord]]s to escape the [[Last Great Time War]]. Rassilon undid the "cloning" of the Master and Gallifrey entered the space around Earth, the Time Lords ready to end time. The Tenth Doctor shot the diamond, breaking the connection, and the Master blasted the Time Lords back into the time lock, the Master also disappearing. The Tenth Doctor rescued Wilf from certain death. In doing so, he was flooded with radiation. The Doctor began his regeneration cycle. A malfunction with the world's wi-fi systems was later blamed for causing mass hallucinations, a cover story concocted by Mr Smith. Shortly after, Luke Smith was nearly run over by a car on Bannerman Road, but rescued by the slowly-regenerating Tenth Doctor, who disappeared into his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')


=== Unknown dates ===
Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani fought and killed a [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]], while [[K9 Mark IV|K9]] defused a bomb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Nightmare Man (TV story)|The Nightmare Man]]'')
[[Gareth (Doctor Who)|Gareth]], head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system was credited for saving the human race several times. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')


[[Kate Maguire]] first encountered the Tenth Doctor. However, he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an [[Auton]] invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autonomy]]'')
=== Other timelines ===
In the summer, Rani, upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor, Maria, offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone. Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and K9. Eve's son [[Adam Lloyd|Adam]] reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in [[2059]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story)|The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')


[[Mary Baker]], the paternal grandmother of [[Julia Hardwick]] as well as one of her possible descendants due to [[time travel]], died at the age of 82. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'')
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A crashed Terpsivore spaceship was buried under Birmingham before being repaired and leaving in 2009. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death Disco (comic story)|Death Disco]]'')
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== Births and deaths ==
[[Mary Baker]], the paternal grandmother of [[Julia Hardwick]] as well as one of her possible descendants due to [[time travel]], died at the age of 82. ([[WC]]: ''[[A Ghost Story for Christmas (webcast)|A Ghost Story for Christmas]]'')


=== Alternate timelines ===
[[Chang Hu]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Observer Effect (short story)|Observer Effect]]'')
==== The Year That Never Was ====
In the spring or summer, {{Simm}} ruled Earth with an iron fist through dictatorship. During this time, the Tenth Doctor, physically aged, was kept captive aboard the UNIT airship the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'', along with Jack Harkness and most of Martha Jones' family, while the [[Toclafane]] invaded [[Earth]]. Meanwhile, Martha, following instruction given to her by the Doctor, spent the year travelling the world spreading stories and faith about the Doctor. Ultimately, the collected faith of the people of the world restored the Doctor, leading to the Master's defeat. Captain Jack destroyed the [[paradox machine]], reversing time back to [[2008]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')


==== Donna's world ====
== Other ==
Prior to Easter, after the ''[[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]]'' fell to Earth on [[25 December]] [[2008]], annihilating [[London]] and rendering most of southern [[England]] uninhabitable with nuclear radiation, [[Great Britain]] had become a police state. People across Southern England were subject to forced relocations; Donna Noble's family was moved to [[Leeds]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
In [[March]] 2005, [[Chris Martin]] watched the [[Ninth Doctor]] get kicked off a [[train]] as his [[season ticket]] wasn't valid until 2009. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'')


In the spring, prior to Easter, after Donna's family was relocated, the parthenogenesis of the Adipose was a huge success, with 60 million Americans killed before the Adipose were moved to their spaceship. Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones died saving the world from ATMOS, and Captain Jack was transferred to [[Sontar]]. Rose Tyler worked with the UNIT of this timeline to help Donna Noble restore the proper chain of events which, at one point, involved sending Donna back to [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
While the [[2011 (releases)|2011]] audio stories ''[[The Devil and Miss Carew (audio story)|The Devil and Miss Carew]]'' and ''[[Submission (audio story)|Submission]]'' are ostensibly set not long before the [[Series 3 (Torchwood)|third series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' from [[2009 (releases)|2009]], dialogue in ''The Devil and Miss Carew'' mentioning that [[Joanna Carew]] is 81 years old and born in [[1930]], and the events of ''Submission'' taking place more than 50 years after the successful return of the ''[[Trieste (submarine)|Trieste]]'' from the [[Mariana Trench]] in [[1960]], contradictorily suggest that they are set in their year of broadcast, [[2011]].


==== Other timelines ====
In the summer, Rani, upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor, Maria, offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone. Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and K9. Eve's son [[Adam Lloyd|Adam]] reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in [[2059]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]'')
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2009 was a year.

Events

Dated events

January - May

On 20 January, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, the first African-American in the position. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Early in the year, over 4 months before August, Thomas Brewster and Gerald Lendler came to London. At the time, Lendler had stolen the Doctor's TARDIS from Brewster. When Brewster rummaged through Lendler's collection of valuable items, he accidentally woke up a hibernating Coffin-Loader and it escaped into the River Thames. It released methane and mould into the atmosphere, which increased Earth's temperature by 1 degree. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

Owen Harper finds a Vostok in Cardiff Bay. (COMIC: The Return of the Vostok)

In March, the Vostok came to Cardiff with the intentions of using its rift to bring the Earth into a new Ice Age. Torchwood Three visited Cardiff Bay after it was frozen and discovered the Vostok beneath the ice. They defeated the Vostok by covering the ice in fuel and dropping a match in the fuel, burning the Vostok alive. (COMIC: The Return of the Vostok)

One account, but not others, which suggested this time as 2008, placed 15 May 2009 as the start of the Mandragora Helix's attempted takeover of Earth through the MorganTech computer systems. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)

June - August

On 6 June, the Atraxi extradimensional prison break occurred. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

On 28 June, Stephen Hawking held a party for time travellers at Gonville & Caius College, but he only sent out invitations after the event. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

Sometime before 18 August, Polly Wright read a blog post by Jo Jones about Jo's encounter with Doreen Killebrew in the 1970s. From this blog post, she learned that Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart knew the Doctor and they began exchanging emails on their past adventures with him. Eventually, they were contacted by Thomas Brewster, who thought they could help him deal with Gerald Lendler.

On 18 August, Polly and Alistair met up with Brewster at a restaurant where Brewster had been working for three weeks. Lendler had hired an alien hunter to deal with the creature. The Coffin-Loader came out of the River Thames and parts of London were flooded. Using Alistair as bait for the Coffin-Loader, the Hunter lured it to Trafalgar Square and killed it, returning Earth's climate to normal. Afterwards, with some convincing from Polly and Alistair, Lendler gave the Doctor's TARDIS back to Brewster. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

September - December

Members of the Stockbridge Preservation Society began to go missing. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child)

Newspaper Ianto Jones picks up. Date reads: Wednesday September 2009 (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)

On 8:40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September, every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message, "We are coming", repeatedly, in English. Behind the scenes, the British government knew this came from the 456, a race who had visited Earth before. Gwen Cooper spoke to Clement McDonald, who also stopped and said the message, He told Gwen that when he was a child, the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away, with him almost being taken too. Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)

Jack, his body slowly reconstituting itself, was held by Johnson, while Gwen went on the run from the British government, revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant. The children on Earth stopped again to say, "We are coming...tomorrow". Mr Dekker built a container for the 456 to specification, filled with unusual gases. Lois Habiba revealed to Gwen that John Frobisher was behind the death orders for Torchwood. Johnson sealed Jack in concrete, but Ianto arrived, releasing him. Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)

The 456 ambassador materialised in the gassy container in Thames House. They demanded 10% of all of Earth's children. Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965, and Jack staid it was for the 456. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)

Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965. At Thames House, the 456 ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system, unaging. As negotiations failed, the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10%, which Lois recorded with Torchwood's Eye-5 contact lenses as incriminating evidence. The 456 killed Clem. Jack and Ianto faced the 456, but were also killed, along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus. Jack revived, upset over his loss. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)

The British government started sending the 10% to the 456, labelling it "inoculations". The ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs. The Prime Minister informed John Frobisher that his children would be among those handed over to the 456. Unable to cope with this, Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide. Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could. Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456, but sacrificed his grandson Steven to set it up. Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson, Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)

On Halloween in 2009, the Gelth attempted to pass through a rift in space and time which had opened in Ratchett Abbey, Cheltenham, but were eventually stopped by the Tenth Doctor and Corynne Fletcher. (PROSE: Scared Stiff)

In mid-December, the Aurelia Festival was held in Stockbridge. The Tenth Doctor and new companion Majenta Pryce arrived to find themselves involved in an adventure with Maxwell Edison. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child)

On the 12th of December, Brenda sent out a letter to the readers of the book series based upon herself and Effie, inviting them to visit her B&B in Whitby, North Yorkshire. (PROSE: Brenda's B&B)

On 25 December, the Tenth Doctor and his companion Heather McCrimmon visited the village of Stillmuir to celebrate Christmas with Heather's family. The celebrations were interrupted by three blue-skinned aliens who wanted to learn about Christmas. They transported the entire village away from Earth to a giant snow globe where they could observe the humans. The Doctor talked with the aliens and invited them to observe Christmas by attending the McCrimmon family's celebrations if they returned the village to Earth. The aliens agreed and spent Christmas night celebrating. (COMIC: A Merry Little Christmas)

Undated

By this year, Polly Wright worked in the City of Westminster. (AUDIO: The Three Companions)

Professor Egen, a time traveller from 1959, briefly stopped in 2009 during his first (and ultimately only) journey through time in his experimental time machine. He looked at a 21st century city full of skyscrapers, which looked "ultra-modern", as he had expected — but, precisely because he had expected it, found it underwhelming, prompting him to move on to the more distant future. (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales)

A broken Filbik colour coder leaked a rainbow over a town in England, causing anyone who touched it to change colour and fall unconscious before being transported to a storage ship. When Bobby explained the mishap to the Filbik they politely agreed to return all of the samples taken by accident. (PROSE: The End of the Rainbow)

Gareth, head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce, developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes. Gareth's system was credited for saving the human race several times. (TV: Doctor Who)

Kate Maguire first encountered the Tenth Doctor. However, he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an Auton invasion. (PROSE: Autonomy)

A crashed Terpsivore spaceship was buried under Birmingham before being repaired and leaving in 2009. (COMIC: Death Disco)

Rani Chandra visited a Krulius spaceship. (COMIC: Return of the Krulius)

Ellie Faber became homeless. (TV: The Curse of Clyde Langer)

Phil Houseman's The Myth of Artificial Intelligence was published. (PROSE: Theatre of War)

Julia Hardwick was sent back in time by a Weeping Angel when she was in a graveyard. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)

The nine-year-old Sally Morgan's parents were killed in the Middle East when their convoy was ambushed. From then onwards, she was raised by her grandfather. (AUDIO: Black and White)

Jack Odwards swam the English Channel to raise money for Chuckle-Aid. (AUDIO: Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379))

The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot visited London for a few days during their travels. The Doctor met Miranda Peel on a Tuesday and a Wednesday on the London Underground while Jamie and Zoe explored the city. (PROSE: Favourite Star)

One of Abslom Daak's ancestors was found guilty by Intersol for crimes against New Devonia. (COMIC: The Crimson Hand)

The Abzorbaloff met the Tenth Doctor in Cardiff, wanting to revenge his son. (WC: The Genuine Article)

According to Brent Cleever, Sir William Frazer and Lady Frazer settled on Mars. (PROSE: Biography — 21)

In 2323, Dr Olivia Kagg Waldermein wrote of the "2005-2009 Davies-Gardner account" of the "Last Lightbringer". (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])

Prior to 456 incursion

Contradicting other sources, one account placed this year as the time Torchwood discovered the skeleton of a Cardiff soldier from 1812 who died when his heart was ripped out. According to this account, Ianto, Owen Harper, and Toshiko Sato were still active in Torchwood. (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts)

A half-alien, half-human girl named Freda was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three. (AUDIO: Asylum)

Torchwood Three discovered Torchwood India still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians, with plans to roll back time to Britain's empire across the world. Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time. (AUDIO: Golden Age)

Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. (AUDIO: The Dead Line)

Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper searched for an alien heat-gun on Cardiff's Machen estate. While doing so, they inadvertently caused a parasitic alien baby to unlatch from its host, causing the host to kill herself and the baby. (PROSE: The Wrong Hands) When the baby's father discovered this, he sought revenge on Torchwood Three and infected Jack and Gwen with the Kagawa Virus. (PROSE: Virus)

Torchwood Three recovered a sentient book from Cardiff University Library, which had been stealing people's memories and converting them into stories. The book was indestructible, so to release its grasp on Nina Rogers Jack decided to send it back in time to 1899, where Emily Holroyd would secretly place it in the university library and so trap it in a time loop. (PROSE: Consequences)

Undated adventures of Sarah Jane Smith & friends

The Veil Androvax crashed in Ealing, followed by the Judoon Tybo. Androvax escaped to Genetec Systems, using Nanoforms to build a spaceship and destroy Earth. Luke deactivated the Nanoforms, and Tybo arrested Androvax. Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon. (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon)

Rani was called to Danemouth by Samuel Lloyd to investigate a haunted funfair. Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde followed. Rani found Eve, whose powers were out of control. Eve was taken to Ship to control them. Sarah Jane gave Ship the co-ordinates to the black hole K9 was protecting, freeing him and powering Ship. Eve, Samuel and Eve's adopted father Harry left in Ship to explore the universe. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Peter Dalton was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith, but the Tenth Doctor interfered. The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop, with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor, Clyde and Rani in another. Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died. Time resumed its natural course. With Peter nowhere to be seen, Sarah Jane called the wedding off. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

At Ashen Hill Manor, Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension, keeping Erasmus Darkening alive. Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field. (TV: The Eternity Trap)

The Mona Lisa was in the International Gallery in London, on loan from the Louvre. Due to her proximity to The Abomination, made from the same sentient paint as the Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa was brought to life. She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life, who shot at The Abomination. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge)

The Slitheen-Blathereen family captured some Slitheen, stopping them from destroying the Earth. The Slitheen-Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a Rakweed plant, which the next day mutated, sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma. Mr Smith used a high-pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants, and when the Slitheen-Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane, he did so again, destroying their Rakweed-saturated bodies. (TV: The Gift)

Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani fought and killed a Raxacoricofallapatorian, while K9 defused a bomb. (TV: The Nightmare Man)

Other timelines

In the summer, Rani, upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor, Maria, offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone. Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and K9. Eve's son Adam reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in 2059. (TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic)


Births and deaths

Mary Baker, the paternal grandmother of Julia Hardwick as well as one of her possible descendants due to time travel, died at the age of 82. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)

Chang Hu was born. (PROSE: Observer Effect)

Other

In March 2005, Chris Martin watched the Ninth Doctor get kicked off a train as his season ticket wasn't valid until 2009. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)

Behind the scenes

While the 2011 audio stories The Devil and Miss Carew and Submission are ostensibly set not long before the third series of Torchwood from 2009, dialogue in The Devil and Miss Carew mentioning that Joanna Carew is 81 years old and born in 1930, and the events of Submission taking place more than 50 years after the successful return of the Trieste from the Mariana Trench in 1960, contradictorily suggest that they are set in their year of broadcast, 2011.

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