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This page lists appearances of the Daleks - and their creator, Davros - in the order in which they experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

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Limiting factors

Dalek casings

Daleks with cone-shaped luminosity dischargers are usually seen during or after the Last Great Time War, while Daleks with bulb-shaped "ears" are usually seen before.

Non-slatted Daleks are usually seen before TV: The Chase although the Daleks in TV: Genesis of the Daleks and TV: The Power of the Daleks are slatted and both take place before The Chase. These are the only exceptions to this rule as they cannot be set later in the timeline.

A number of Dalek "paradigms" have been introduced over the years. Dalek types are notably identified in the Dalek Combat Training Manual. Dalek Combat Training Manual suggests that in the "early period" of Dalek history, Dalek drones were silver, constructed from raw Dalekanium, and fitted with "low-frequency" blue sense globes. Though "paradigms" generally follow one another, stories such as the The Magician's Apprentice establish that older Dalek models may continue to serve beyond their "prime".

• Type I Daleks, as originally seen in The Daleks are Daleks without slats.
• Type II Daleks, as originally seen in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, a form of slatless Dalek distinguished by solar energy collection discs and enlarged Dalek fenders.
• From the Type III Dalek onward, Dalek have slats; the "Type III" Dalek drones are silver Daleks with blue sense globes.
• Type IV Dalek drones are grey with black sense globes, a replication of Davros's Mark III Travel Machine prototypes.
• Type V Daleks are silver Daleks with black sense globes as seen in Death to the Daleks.
• Type VI Daleks or "Necros Daleks" refers to the initial army created by Davros in opposition to the Skaro-faction Daleks as seen in Revelation of the Daleks.
• Type VII Daleks, succeeding the Necros Daleks, are the Imperial Daleks loyal to Davros as seen in Remembrance of the Daleks.
• Type VIII Dalek drones are bronze with a refined "new series" shape including cone-shaped luminosity dischargers. They are generally associated with the Last Great Time War and beyond, though stories such as Prisoner of the Daleks and Out of Time establish that they were active in pre-Time War history.
• "Type IX" is the larger casing type associated with the New Dalek Paradigm.

Skaro

Any story where Skaro exists must take place before TV:Remembrance of the Daleks where it is destroyed, which is referenced in TV: Twice Upon a Time, AUDIO: Terror Firma and AUDIO: Daleks Among Us. Skaro is devastated, following the events of the Time War (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) and is restored by TV: The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar. "The Destroyer of Skaro" is a name for the Doctor recorded by the Testimony in the far future. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)

Davros

Any story featuring Davros with an intact wheelchair has to happen before COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! in which Abslom Daak chain swords his torso. Any story where Davros has an intact personality must take place prior to Terror Firma.

What happened to Davros after TV: Revelation of the Daleks and before TV: Remembrance of the Daleks, as well as what happened after Remembrance of the Daleks is complicated but not impossible to reconcile. The conflicting accounts of Davros' ascension to Emperor of the Daleks and dismemberment in Emperor of the Daleks, the sequence of events depicted in The Juggernauts, The Davros Mission, and the framing narrative of I, Davros cannot be reconciled and will therefore be treated as three separate timelines resulting from the Time War.

However, Davros' personality is replaced by an Emperor Dalek in Terror Firma, but various accounts date Remembrance of the Daleks, which Terror Firma is a sequel to, before the Time War. Indeed, it is apparent that Davros was restored to his original personality before Father of the Daleks, in which he joins the Dalek war effort.

This can be reconciled with Palindrome (audio story) where it is revealed the post Time War Davros we have seen is actually an amalgamation of different versions of Davros throughout the multiverse. This also explains why he can use his organic eyes in The Witch's Familiar (TV story)

Time Lords

Any story where the Daleks do not know that the Doctor is a Time Lord must take place before TV: Resurrection of the Daleks; this therefore includes TV: The Chase, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and TV The Evil of the Daleks.

Space travel

Any story where the Daleks have not developed space travel must take place before COMIC: Power Play.

Time travel

Dalek time travel is inconsistent. They have time machines in TV: The Chase, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and AUDIO: Daleks Among Us. Dalek time travel is "crude and nasty" in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks and their time travel technology can rival the Time Lords by the Gallifrey audio series, leading to the Last Great Time War.

Dalek time travel technology is clearly advanced in TV: The Magician's Apprentice, with Colony Sarff being sent to multiple points in time (including the end of the universe where the Sisterhood of Karn are). It is never stated that the Daleks or Davros have looked into their personal future.

Timeline

Origin

By one account, there are various myths surrounding the creation of the Daleks, including that they were created by Yarvelling or on Mars. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Created by Yarvelling

• COMIC: Genesis of Evil

The Daleks evolve from humanoids, as described in The Daleks.

Evolving from humans

• PROSE: We are the Daleks!

The Daleks are created from humans.

Created by Davros

• TV: The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

The Twelfth Doctor saves Davros as a child.

• AUDIO: Innocence

• AUDIO: Purity

• AUDIO: Corruption

Shan wrote a paper suggesting the Kaled race would need to be re-engineered to survive a post-war Skaro, which she called "the Dalek Solution", giving Davros the idea for Daleks. (AUDIO: Davros)

• AUDIO: Guilt

• PROSE: Davros Genesis

Prior to Genesis of the Daleks, Davros creates his advanced life-support chair and unveils Dalek One.

• TV: Genesis of the Daleks

Davros has created the Daleks.

• PROSE: Creation of the Daleks

A historical account of the Daleks, depicted in flying bronze casings, waging an attack on the Thal Dome.

Immediately after Genesis of the Daleks, a short conflict is waged between the Daleks and the Thals, with the Daleks dropping a neutron bomb on the Thals. The Daleks become confined to their newly constructed city. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Trapped on Skaro

500 years after the Thousand Year War, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) the Thals begin to emerge from their plateau in search of food. (TV: The Daleks)

• COMIC: Safe Haven

A group of Thals have travelled from their plateau to the Thal Dome, only to find it infested with Daleks, who exterminate them all.

• TV: The Daleks / TV: The Daleks in Colour ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks in Colour (TV story)"]

The war with the Daleks, referred to as a neutronic war, occurred 500 years ago. The Thals left their plateau 4 years ago. With the help of the First Doctor and friends, the Thals destroy all the Daleks in the Dalek City.

• TV: The Space Museum (cameo)

A Dalek shell with the design seen in The Daleks is present in the Space Museum on Xeros. Both The Dalek Handbook and Dalek Combat Training Manual suggest that it was taken from the Dalek City following The Daleks. Alternatively, the Dalek Survival Guide claims that it was part of the Pursuer-Dalek group that was captured prior to The Chase, but does not account for the difference in appearances.

• AUDIO: Return to Skaro

Fifty cycles have passed since the events of The Daleks. During this time, the sole surviving Dalek from the Dalek City, the Dalek Supreme, has been building up an army of Daleks. These Daleks are all destroyed by the First Doctor and his companions in association with the Thals. The Thals theorise that there might have been other surviving Dalek colonies on Skaro.

• COMIC: The Daleks Destroy the Zomites

The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright inadvertently help destroy a pest of the Daleks on Skaro. The Daleks allow them to leave peacefully, but warn them to never return.

• COMIC: The Message of Mystery

Susan Foreman inadvertently lands on Skaro, centuries before the Daleks embarked on universal conquest

• AUDIO: Random Ghosts / The Lights of Skaro

In the default time period of Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, the Daleks haven't yet developed space travel.

Venturing out into the universe

• COMIC: Power Play

The Dalek City is constructed. The Daleks gain space travel.

• TV: Resolution

A Dalek reconnaissance scout with a bronze casing lands on Earth in the 9th century. Resurfacing in 2019, it makes a failed attempt to contact the Dalek Fleet using local communications technology. The Thirteenth Doctor believed the scout to be among the first to leave Skaro, perhaps the first to reach Earth. It knows the Doctor as an enemy of the Daleks.

• TV: Revolution of the Daleks (Defense Drones)

The recon Dalek is cloned and creates a New Dalek Army, which is wiped out by the Death Squad Daleks.

• COMIC: Duel of the Daleks

The Emperor orders the conquest of space, leading into The Amaryll Challenge.

• COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge

The first Dalek invasion force lands on Amaryll, the closest planet to Skaro. The Emperor then orders the invasion of Solturis, leading into The Penta Ray Factor.

• COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor

The Emperor is called back to Skaro, leading into Plague of Death.

• COMIC: Plague of Death

An alien spacecraft lands on Skaro, leading into The Menace of the Monstrons.

• COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons

The Daleks repel an alien attack, partly destroying the Dalek City.

• COMIC: Eve of War

A few months after The Menace of the Monstrons, the Dalek City is rebuilt. Following an attack on their space forces by the Mechonoids, the Emperor orders a search for inventions in space in preparation for war.

• COMIC: The Archives of Phryne

The Daleks conquer the planet Phryne whilst searching for new technology.

• COMIC: The Rogue Planet

The Daleks capture Skardal and sent it to Mechanus, leading into Impasse.

• COMIC: Impasse

The Terrorkons are disturbed, leading onto The Terrorkon Harvest.

• COMIC: The Terrorkon Harvest

The Emperor orders the exploration of Skaro, leading onto Legacy of Yesteryear.

• COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear

Centuries after Genesis of Evil.

• AUDIO: Jubilee

The Daleks use transolar discs and shoulder slats. They invade in 1903, so probably early in Dalek history as opposed to time travellers.

• COMIC: Jungle Adventure

The Second Doctor and John and Gillian destroy a group of primitive, non-slatted Daleks who are constructing metal tracks on which to travel on an unidentified planet. These Daleks do not explicitly recognise the trio.

• COMIC: Attack of the Daleks

The Second Doctor and his grandchildren elude a group of colourful, non-slatted Daleks on an unidentified planet. These Daleks do not explicitly recognise the trio.

• TV: The Power of the Daleks

The Daleks recognise the Second Doctor. According to PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, the factory ship is one of many sent out in the early days of the empire. According to PROSE: War of the Daleks, it takes place after Remembrance of the Daleks.

• COMIC: The Doctor Strikes Back

Set in 2135. The Doctor says that the Daleks have garrisons on nearly every planet in the universe at this time (away from Earth's galaxy?). The Second Doctor is the Dalek Supreme's arch enemy.

• COMIC: Shadow of Humanity

The Emperor declares that human beings are to be destroyed.

• COMIC: The Emissaries of Jevo

The Emperor declares "all-out war" on all humans everywhere.

• COMIC: The Road to Conflict

The Daleks elect to search for Earth.

Dalek Annual stories

25th century war

Many of these stories feature the Golden Emperor and feature a war with humans in the 25th century

• COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks

Skaro is relocated to the Solar system in preparation for an invasion by the Dalek War Machines, led by the Golden Emperor, in the year 2400, beginning with the conquest of Venus. (PROSE: Break-through)

• PROSE: Red for Danger

Set four months after Invasion of the Daleks.

• COMIC: The Oil Well

The Daleks anticipate an invasion of Earth.

• PROSE: The Secret of the Mountain

The Daleks are forced off Venus by a human fleet.

• COMIC: City of the Daleks

Venusian Jeff Stone takes an undercover mission to Skaro.

• COMIC: The Humanoids

The Stones find the Daleks' humanoid servants on Mars.

• PROSE: The Small Defender

An advance party of Daleks land in Kent but are thwarted.

• COMIC: Monsters of Gurnian

The Stones discover a Dalek presence on Gurnian.

• PROSE: Break-through

The Daleks have been driven out of the solar system. The Space Army arrives on Skaro and forces the Daleks to surrender.

• COMIC: Battle for the Moon

While the Golden Emperor ostensibly negotiates peace terms, Daleks based on the Moon attempt to destroy Earth but are thwarted.

Other Jeff Stone stories

• PROSE: Diamond Dust

• COMIC: The Super Sub

27th century war

• COMIC: The Mechanical Planet

After two centuries of peace, the Golden Emperor forces Earth to return the Daleks' confiscated weaponry so they can stop a rogue planet, which is later traced to the Mechonoids. (COMIC: The World That Waits) He then vows to conquer Earth and the other planets.

• PROSE: The Secret Struggle

• COMIC: Treasure of the Daleks

The Daleks are opposed by Unispace Security.

• PROSE: The Five-Leaf Clover

• COMIC: The Invisible Invaders

On Skaro, the Daleks repel an invasion by invisible Birdmen.

• PROSE: The Log of the "Gypsy Joe"

Set in October 2612.

• PROSE: Manhunt

• COMIC: Masters of the World

The Daleks are opposed by Unispace Security.

Accounts of the 27th century Dalek invasion and the Age of Universal Peace that preceeded it are at odds with events such as the Second Dalek War. However, sources such as The Dalek Conquests and The Dalek Handbook indicate that the Daleks have gone back to overwrite their own history.

Other Annual stories

• COMIC: The Dalek Trap

• PROSE: Timechase

• PROSE: The Fugitive

The Dalek Occupation of the Solar System

• COMIC: Return of the Elders

The Daleks' invasion is initially repelled, but they vow to return.

• COMIC: The Defeat of the Daleks

The First Doctor and Ian Chesterton fight space-faring Daleks who refered to them both as "Earthmen".

• COMIC: The Daleks Are Foiled

The First Doctor, Ian and Barbara Wright eluded a group of Daleks equipped with an Earthmen Detector.

• PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks

The Daleks do not yet have time travel. They are ruled by the Golden Emperor. They have conflict with humanity, which is not confined to Earth. Therefore this has been placed during the First Dalek War, before the invasion of Earth.

• AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests

The Daleks plan the invasion of Earth as a means for Project Degravitate.

• 2157 - PROSE: Lucifer Rising

The Daleks are attacking Earth colonies.

• 2157 - PROSE: GodEngine

The invasion has begun; the Daleks also attack Mars.

• PROSE: The Dalek Invasion of Mars

In an historical account of the Dalek invasion of Mars, the invaders are depicted in flying bronze casings.

• PROSE: Invasion Earth: 2164

A historical account of the invasion of Earth depicts the Daleks in flying bronze casings and dates the invasion to 2164.

• AUDIO: Watchers

Set on 8 April 2164. The Daleks arrive on Earth and invade Paris. They don’t have time travel but a fleet becomes trapped in the time vortex and temporarily gains means of time travel.

(FLASHBACK)

Set near the beginning of the war. The Daleks arrive in Portsmouth and capture Victor Chaplin, converting him into a Roboman. (AUDIO: After the Daleks)

• AUDIO: The Mutant Phase

Set during the occupation, though not for the alternate future Daleks.

• AUDIO: Masters of Earth

Set in 2163 during the occupation, but as the Sixth Doctor repeatedly insists that the invasion will end in a year, it really has to be set in 2166.

• 2167 - TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

The Daleks' Master Plan, GodEngine, Lucifer Rising and The Mutant Phase date the Dalek invasion to 2157. The TV story itself is set 10 years later. The Doctor believes that The Daleks was "a million years" in the future, and that Invasion is "about the middle history of the Daleks." However, in the novelisation, this is changed, and the Doctor theorises that their defeat in Daleks may not have been complete, that the Daleks have "tremendous powers of survival," or that there may have been other colonies on other parts of Skaro. He also notes "they’ve evolved too," implying Daleks comes before Invasion.

• 2167 - COMIC: A Stitch in Time

Set during The Dalek Invasion of Earth: The End of Tomorrow (4).

• 2167 - AUDIO: After the Daleks

Set directly after The Dalek Invasion of Earth. One Dalek survives the war, however it is killed by Marcus Bray as a political stunt.

• 2180s-90s - AUDIO: Lucie Miller / To the Death

The Daleks are familiar with the Monk, but the Daleks are natives to this era except the Dalek Time Controller, who will have gave them the knowledge of the Monk. The Daleks invade Earth again in the 22nd century.

• 2199 - PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks

Possible anomaly, as it clashes with Lucie Miller and To the Death.

• AUDIO: The Curse of the Daleks

After The Daleks and 50 years after a Dalek War that humanity won.

The Dalek Wars

• 2430 - COMIC: Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom

Humanity has settled in the New Earth System for fifty years since 2380.

A Dalek war breaks out in 2464 and has been going for 75 years as of 2539. (PROSE: The Colony of Lies)

• AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests

A Dalek Emperor oversees the planning for Operation Divide and Conquer.

• 2540 - TV: Frontier in Space

Operation Divide and Conquer is thwarted by the Third Doctor. The Daleks attack.

• 2540 - TV: Planet of the Daleks

Follows Frontier in Space. The Dalek Supreme, a member of the Supreme Council, travels in a Councillor-class ship. Set generations after The Daleks.

drawing upon the Master's knowledge of temporal mechanics, the Gold Dalek begins research into the development of time travel. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

• TV: Day of the Daleks

The Daleks have invaded Earth before, so after the The Dalek Invasion of Earth. They have "discovered the secret of time travel." They have had another go at the invasion. They know the Doctor but do not recognize his third incarnation. Set after Planet of the Daleks, according to Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe.

• AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks

Daleks and humans are at war with one another.

• COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer

Set during the Dalek Wars.

• COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks

Set during the Dalek Wars. The Emperor Dalek recognises the first seven incarnations of the Doctor but is unfamiliar with the name "Davros".

• 26th century - AUDIO: Out of Time

Set during the Second Dalek War and features grey Daleks led by a bronze-type red-and-gold Supreme Dalek.

• 26th century - PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks

Set during the Earth Empire's war with the Daleks and features the bronze Daleks, so they are not confined to Time War related stories.

• 2570 - PROSE Love and War / AUDIO Love and War

Towards the end of the war.

• PROSE: Infection of the Daleks

The Daleks use Ogron slaves and are at war with humanity which is "taking its toll", implicitly placing this during the Second Dalek War.

• TV: Death to the Daleks

This occurs a generation after a Dalek War; according to Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe it is soon after the 2nd Dalek War. The Daleks are less advanced than the ones in Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks. They know who the Third Doctor is and know about the Tardis.

• TV: Into the Dalek

According to Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, the Daleks launch the war seen in this story immediately after the events of Death to the Daleks.

Aftermath of the Wars

• TV: The Space Museum

A group of Daleks observe The First Doctor leaving Xeros, and begin to follow them through the vortex, leading into The Chase.

• TV: The Chase

The Daleks are based on Skaro again and are now slatted. They have a dimensionally transcendental timeship but explicitly want revenge for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, implying it is not too long after that story. In the Mission to the Unkown novelisation, the Doctor explains that "the Daleks have been studying time for almost a century," implying the Daleks from The Chase are native to the 40th century. Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe sets it after the Dalek Wars.

• PROSE: Mechanoid Mayhem

A historical account of the Daleks' battle with the Mechanoids depicts them in flying bronze casings.

• COMIC: The World That Waits

Follows The Chase.

• TV: Walls' Sky Ray lollies advertisement

The Second Doctor is attacked by Daleks within his TARDIS control room.

• AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks

Set in 2025, these Daleks have travelled back in time to destroy humanity before the Dalek Wars. They refer to the "Dalek Empire" and have high-functioning Robomen.

• COMIC: The Disintegrator

During the Third Doctor's time on 20th century Earth, the Daleks, based on the Moon, loan their weaponry for a human accomplice to rob the Bank of England but are thwarted by the Doctor. These Daleks are slatted and recognise the Third Doctor.

• AUDIO: Glorious Goodwood

During the latter period of the Third Doctor's time with UNIT on 20th century Earth, the Daleks pursue Sarah Jane Smith but are routed by the army.

• COMIC: The Trodos Ambush

The Daleks are non-slatted and can detect the Doctor's journey to Trodos, hinting at an understanding of time travel.

• COMIC: Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine

Ian and Barbara thwart the Daleks' attempt to paralyse the First Doctor.

• COMIC: Rescued from the Daleks

The Doctor and Ian rescue a human scientist from the Daleks.

• PROSE: Report from an Unknown Planet

Set centuries before the ADF was founded, A Supreme Dalek oversees the placement of a Dalek army on a planet for activation when back-up is required or after a certain amount of time.

• AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks

Set in the 45th century, but these Daleks have been in cryogenic suspension for 17 centuries.

• PROSE: The Dalek Factor

The Dalek Emperor matches the description of the one from Evil and is referred to as "an Emperor", suggesting that there is more than one. All three editions of aHistory date this story to circa 3340, as Thal Search and Destroy missions have been underway for eight centuries, and Planet of the Daleks is set in 2540.

Fighting the ADF

• AUDIO: Cycle of Destruction (flashback)

The Daleks exterminate Mark Seven's adoptive mother in front of him. Probably set before Mark joined the ADF or SSS.

• PROSE: Terror Task Force

The Anti-Dalek Force (ADF) is founded during a war between humanity and the Daleks. According to Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, the ADF, including Joel Shaw, operated after the Mechonoid Wars and Dalek Killers, and prior to the 40th century. Mark Seven, an android who would remain active through to at least the 41st century, is a founding member of the ADF.

• PROSE: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

Seven, Shaw and Shavron are ambushed by Daleks on Omegon.

• COMIC: Planet of Serpents

Features Seven, Shaw, and Shavron.

• PROSE: Nightmare

Joel Shaw discovers that Daleks have been placing themselves in human bodies for some time, using them to infiltrate human affairs.

• COMIC: Flood!!!

Features Shaw, Seven and Shavron.

• PROSE: The Doomsday Machine

One year after Terror Task Force.

• PROSE: Report from an Unknown Planet

Joel Shaw and other ADF personnel receive a recording informing them that a huge Dalek army has been accidentally activated. It is not known how long ago the recording was sent, but the worry expressed by ADF indicates that such an army increases the Dalek threat that they had already faced.

• PROSE: The Castaway

ADF Agent Ral Shannon has been marooned on Knosson for 3 years, making the force at least that old.

• PROSE: The Seeds of Destruction

Del Kramer tells Shaw of his encounter with the Daleks and his belief that they had taken a formula which enhanced growth, anticipating that, with it, the Daleks could defeat humanity within weeks.

• PROSE: Assassination Squad

Shaw and Shavron defeat a Dalek ship undergoing a covert mission on Mars.

• PROSE: Blockade

• PROSE: The Solution

Seven and Shaw answer a distress call from Scottus.

• COMIC: The Human Bombs

• COMIC: Island of Horror

Seven and Shaw find Daleks hiding on an artificial island on Earth.

• PROSE: The Planet That Cried "Wolf!"

The Great War

The last remaining member of the Supreme Council declares himself the Dalek Supreme and begins to set in motion his master plan. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

• GAME: Curse of the Cyclops

The Daleks are searching for taranium, suggesting a setting before The Daleks' Master Plan. In that story, it had taken 50 years to mine the they had taranium they had, so this is probably set at least fifty years before that.

• PROSE: The Outlaw Planet

Features Sara Kingdom. According to this account, published in The Dalek Outer Space Book, the SSS is founded with Sara and Agent Seven (aka Mark Seven) as founding members.

• AUDIO: The Destroyers

Features Sara Kingdom and Mark Seven.

• COMIC: Sara Kingdom: Space Security Agent

Features Sara Kingdom.

• PROSE: The Living Death

• COMIC: The Secret of the Emperor

• COMIC: The Brain Tappers

Features Sara Kingdom.

• 4000 - TV: Mission to the Unknown

• 4000 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan

Sara dies. The Daleks have time machines. The Daleks are unaware of the Time Lords.

• AUDIO: The Dalek Protocol

Set in the 41st century, Daleks return to Exxilon some time after the events of Death to the Daleks. They are trying to steal the humans' Parrinium, with both the Daleks and humans suffering from a space plague.

• AUDIO: Across the Darkened City

Genetic variant 210 and Steven Taylor become trapped on the planet Shade and work together to survive. Upon its arrival back on Skaro, 210 is given an enhanced casing and declares himself the emperor. Following his ordeal, he vows to seek the human factor, setting this shortly before Evil of the Daleks.

• COMIC: Empire of the Daleks

A small group of grey and blue Daleks, led by a Dalek with a black dome, attempt to conquer Earth in 37 AD. They are ultimately led by the emperor, who resides on Skaro. They fail in their mission, noting that there are other nexus points in human history, suggesting they are time travellers.

• TV: The Evil of the Daleks

The Daleks are developing time travel. Skaro exists. The Daleks are unaware of the Time Lords. According to the novelisation, this is set over 1000 years after The Daleks' Master Plan, with the Daleks having suffered a slow defeat in the Great War against the humans, Thals, and Draconians. Dalek computers predict defeat within the next 80 years, however this comes sooner with the Doctor's Humanised Daleks starting a civil war against the emperor.

• PROSE: Daleks vs Daleks!

A historical account of the civil war depicts the Daleks in flying bronze casings.

At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Dalek Emperor has a brief encounter with a time-jumping Bernice Summerfield. (AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro)

Withdrawing from Mutter's spiral

• AUDIO: The Final Beginning

The Daleks return to the timeline after their destruction in Evil of the Daleks. They return due to damage caused to the web of time by their end.

• COMIC: Bringer of Darkness

Set an unspecified amount of time after Evil. The Doctor discovers the Daleks did not meet their final end and the Emperor rules the Daleks again.

• PROSE: The Eighth Wonder of the World

After The Daleks' Master Plan.

• COMIC: Children of the Revolution (human factor Daleks)

The Daleks infected with the human factor hide on the planet Kyrol.

• AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks

Humanity at this point has encountered the Daleks before, but these humans are unfamiliar with them. The Daleks know of the Time Lords.

• COMIC: The Exterminator

The Second Doctor prevents slatless Daleks from destroying Earth.

• COMIC: The Threat from Beneath

In the 20th century, the Daleks attempt to escalate Earth's Cold War.

• COMIC: Return of the Daleks

Working with a traitorous Time Lord, the Daleks field a fleet of replica TARDISes in a bid to conquer the galaxy, but are thwarted by the Fourth Doctor and the Time Lords.

• COMIC: The Dalek Revenge

The Time Lords send the Fourth Doctor to prevent the Daleks from destroying Earth.

• AUDIO: Fear of the Daleks

The Daleks have a crystal-based command network.

• AUDIO: The Elite

• AUDIO: We Are The Daleks

The Daleks do not recognise the Seventh Doctor. Imperial Daleks are depicted on the cover, but this may be a production error. The Emperor is not Davros and appears to be the one from Evil of the Daleks. The Daleks are attempting to reestablish their empire by way of economic domination in order to avoid wasting resources through waging war. The Daleks are beginning to have trouble with with their computers behaving too logically, and therefore becomiong too predictable. This issue would eventually begin to plague their own internal computers (and therefore their minds) during the forthcoming Movellan War.

The Movellan War

• TV: The Pilot

Set in the past according to the Doctor. Steven Moffat confirmed that the Movellans are more human than the ones in Destiny of the Daleks, placing it before that story. Bronze Daleks are fighting the war.

• AUDIO: The Movellan Manoeuvre

• AUDIO: The Dalek Gambit

The War has been waging for centuries and both sides have access to time travel. The Daleks are bronze.

• AUDIO: Order of the Daleks

These Daleks crashed on their way back to Skaro from the invasion of Kantra, which was mentioned in Destiny.

• 4500 - TV: Destiny of the Daleks

"Thousands of years" after the Daleks were created, Davros is awakened and later put in suspended animation. Neverland mentions the year 4949 in relation to the Dalek-Movellan War as recorded in the Matrix on Gallifrey.

• AUDIO: Alien Heart

Set during the War.

• AUDIO: Dalek Soul

• AUDIO: The Wrong Woman

A Dalek in a time bubbles attacks the Tenth Doctor, Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven in the 41st century. As revealed in The Triumph of Davros, this Dalek was sent back in time to attempt to kill Mark Seven.

• AUDIO: The Lost

The Tenth Doctor and Anya arrive in the midst of a space battle between Dalek and Movellan foorces.

• AUDIO: The First Son

Immediately after The Lost

• AUDIO: The Dalek Defence

Follows directly on from The First Son. Davros is in Earth custody and is removed from cryo-suspension, setting this between Destiny of the Daleks and Resurrection of the Daleks.

• AUDIO: The Triumph of Davros

Follows directly on from The Dalek Defence. According to the Supreme, the most successful Dalek time travel experiment to this point was the one seen in The Chase. The First Movellan decides to exploit the Daleks' biological weakness with a virus.

• TV: The Five Doctors (cameo)

A dark grey Dalek drone, which the Dalek Combat Training Manual indicates is from the Movellan War, is taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey.

• AUDIO: The Five Companions

Likely contemporary to The Five Doctors, a group of Daleks are found on an alternative Death Zone.

The rise of Davros

• 4590 - TV: Resurrection of the Daleks

90 years after the events of Destiny, Davros is taken out of suspended animation to cure the Movellan virus. The Daleks know of the Time Lords, setting this after The Daleks' Master Plan and Evil of the Daleks. Set in 4590 according to the novelisation

• PROSE: An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony

Davros oversees the bombardment of the Earth colony of Phobos in the 23rd century. He has a "wizened hand", placing this before Revelation of the Daleks. Anomalously, Davros is depicted as he appeared in Genesis of the Daleks rather than Resurrection of the Daleks.

• TV: Revelation of the Daleks

The Sixth Doctor recalls Davros' apparent demise. Davros' hand is destroyed. He is captured and is taken back to Skaro for trial by the Daleks.

• AUDIO: The Davros Mission

Takes place in the immediate aftermath of Revelation of the Daleks Davros is being put on trial due to the Daleks having their memories wiped. He becomes Emperor once more.

• COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!

Davros has been put on trial by the Daleks. His body is chainsawed by Abslom Daak but survives to become Emperor of the Daleks.

• AUDIO: The Juggernauts

The ship containing Davros crash lands on Lethe. Davros is likely retrieved after this.

• AUDIO: I, Davros

The story's framing narrative has the Daleks putting Davros on "trial" to test his suitability to be the Dalek's emperor.

• AUDIO: The Curse of Davros

Davros is Emperor of the Daleks and his skirt matches that of a Dalek.

• AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention

Susan and the Eighth Doctor encounter renegade Daleks in August 1963.

• COMIC: Time & Time Again

An Imperial Dalek is in 1963, just before Remembrance.

• TV: Remembrance of the Daleks

The Doctor rhetorically states that the Supreme Dalek is a "thousand years" from Skaro. The Doctor is remembered as the "Destroyer of Skaro" in Twice Upon a Time by Testimony.

• AUDIO: In Remembrance

During Remembrance of the Daleks, an Imperial Dalek ends up in 2016 and learns that the Daleks will be defeated in 1963. Returning to 1963, the Dalek attempts to change the course of history but is stopped by an older Ace.

• NOTVALID: Red Dwarf A-Z

Two Daleks, appearing as Remembrance-style Renegade Black Daleks, discuss Red Dwarf. Dalek civil tensions are evidently high, as the two turn on each other.

The new Dalek Emperor

Following Remembrance of the Daleks and the end of the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, there are three conflicting accounts regarding who became the Dalek Emperor. Was it the Dalek Prime, Davros, or a member of the Supreme Council?

Rule of the Dalek Prime

• PROSE: War of the Daleks

Follows Remembrance. Skaro survives according to the Dalek Prime but his plan appears unlikely and there are alternate possibilities to Skaro's fate. The factory ship is the same one from TV: The Power of the Daleks.

• AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests

The Dalek factory ship crash lands on Vulcan.

• TV: The Power of the Daleks

The Doctor throws the capsule back through the vortex to Vulcan c. 1820 in War of the Daleks. The Daleks recognize the Second Doctor. Their capsule is bigger on inside, hinting that time travel maybe involved. The humans are unfamiliar with Daleks. The trailer states that this story takes place in 2020. The Daleks are powered by static, probably due to limited resource after being trapped on Vulcan for 200 years. According to PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe this story is before The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

Davros as Emperor

• AUDIO: Daleks Among Us

Davros believes Skaro has been destroyed. Davros survives, and his personality is intact The Daleks have time machines and have spread across the universe.

• AUDIO: Terror Firma

Davros's escape pod enters the time vortex after the explosion of his mothership but his memory is unstable so his memories are probably scrambled, allowing him to forget the previous two stories. He believes Skaro has been destroyed and his personality is subsumed by that of the Dalek Emperor. He is more unstable than in War of the Daleks or Daleks Among Us.

A new Gold Emperor

Following the defeat of Davros in the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, one member of the Dalek Supreme Council exterminates the others and dons a gold casing, proclaiming himself as the Dalek Emperor. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire)

Building the Dalek Empire

• AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks

The Daleks recognise Charley Pollard from Terror Firma.

• COMIC: Fire and Brimstone

Set in the 53rd century.

• AUDIO: The Genocide Machine

Lee Sullivan's artwork depicts the Golden Emperor. A Special Weapons Dalek appears. Skaro exists. It is 3000 years after the 26th century according to AUDIO: The Judas Gift, which is Bev Tarrant's native time.

• PROSE: Private Investigations

The Seventh Doctor and Ace assist a resistance movement against the Daleks on Malite.

• COMIC: Metamorphosis

The Daleks recognise the Seventh Doctor and Ace, who foil their plot to send Human/Dalek hybrids to Earth.

• AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element

The Daleks have dimensionally transcendental timeships and a crystal-based command network. They invade Gallifrey, presumably ending their peace.

• WC: Shada

The Time Lords are keeping Dalek prisoners in Shada.

• AUDIO: The Mutant Phase

The Daleks are ruled by a Dalek Emperor - depicted on an unused cover as the Golden Emperor.

• AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks

• AUDIO: Seasons of Fear

The Daleks now have their own equivalent of the Eye of Harmony.

In an alternate timeline, the Emperor is erased along with the entire Dalek race by Imperiatrix Romana II. (AUDIO: Neverland)

• AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks

PROSE: Kalendorf

Attack takes place during this story

PROSE: Natalie's Diary

Takes place during the Daleks' initial invasion.

• PROSE: The Best Joke I Ever Told

The Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush visit the Dalek-devastated world of Guria.

• AUDIO: The Human Factor

• AUDIO: Return of the Daleks

• AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 1

• AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 2

• AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 3

• AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 4

Ending coincides with the end of "Death to the Daleks!.

• AUDIO: "Death to the Daleks!"

• PROSE: Suz

Runs concurrently throughout from Invasion of the Daleks to "Death to the Daleks!".

• PROSE: Alby

Takes place during Alby Brook's search for Susan Mendes.

• AUDIO: Project Infinity

• AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One

• AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Two

• AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Three

• AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Four

The Dalek Emperor is killed.

• PROSE: Museum Peace

The Dalek Empire is apparently all but destroyed but Dalek Empire III reveals that they survived.

Dalek Supreme

• AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks

The Daleks are rebuilding. [elaborate?]

• AUDIO: The Exterminators

Two thousand years after the War in Dalek Empire I and II. The Daleks are ruled by a Dalek Supreme.

• AUDIO: The Healers

• AUDIO: The Survivors

• AUDIO: The Demons

• AUDIO: The Warriors

• AUDIO: The Future

• PROSE: Natalie's Diary

• PROSE: Mutually Assured Survival

The Kotturuh crisis

• PROSE: The Last Message

The Daleks have detected ripples in time. The Dalek Emperor receives a message from the Dark Times, from the future version of a Dalek Drone who is currently in operation on Skaro as part of a Dalek Time Squad. He makes plans to invade the Archive of Islos to find out more about the Doctor's involvement in these ripples.

• WC: The Archive of Islos

The Emperor leads the invasion of the Archive of Islos, with the Dalek Executioner and Dalek Prime Strategist by his side. In retaliation, the Archivians release a mysterious entity.

• WC: The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy

Following directly on from The Archive of Islos, the entity prompts the Daleks to evacuate Skaro. The Emperor sends the Prime Strategist to awaken a hidden army of Daleks, but is beaten there by the entity who attempts to manipulate the Strategist into turning against his emperor. The Emperor and Strategist flee once again.

• WC: Planet of the Mechanoids

Following on from The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy, the Daleks arrive on Mechanus where they attempt to make an alliance with the Mechonoids. While the Dalek Emperor and Dalek Strategist are conferring with their counterparts in the Mechonoid City, the Dalek Drones become impatient and attack the Mechanoids. All but the Emperor and Strategist are seemingly wiped out.

• WC: The Deadly Ally

Following on directly from Planet of the Mechanoids, the Strategist and Mechanoid 2150 work together to defeat the Entity. The Emperor and Strategist are instructed to leave Mechanus by the Mechanoid Queen.

• WC: Day of Reckoning

Following on directly from The Deadly Ally, the Emperor and Strategist retreat back to Skaro and activate an army of Daleks beneath its surface. The Mechonoids follow them to Skaro, but are tricked by the Strategist, who banishes them to the Entity's dimension.

• COMIC: Defender of the Daleks

Grey Daleks led by the gold-cased Dalek Emperor ally with the Tenth Doctor against the Hond. While most Daleks are slatted, one Dalek, the Prime Strategist, is unslatted and claims to be older than even the Emperor.

The Dalek Time Squad is dispatched to locate an earlier incarnation of the Doctor in order to use his TARDIS to reach the Dark Times. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire)

• AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not

The Eighth Doctor is drawn to a planet where he is greeted by a Dalek. Ending leads directly into The Enemy of My Enemy.

• AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy

The Daleks enter into an uneasy alliance with the Eighth Doctor. After the Eighth Doctor makes a deal with President Sarathin of Wrax to dismantle the Devolver, the Daleks go against the the deal and use the Devolver to commit genoide on the Wraxians. The Daleks and the Doctor then agree to link their time ships to travel into the Dark Times, leading to the events of The Knight, The Fool and The Dead.

• PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead: Chapter Sixteen

The Daleks and the Eighth Doctor confront the Tenth Doctor in the Dark Times.

• PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Chapters 1-3)

The Battle of Mordeela immediately after The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

• COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times: Episode 2

The Dalek Time Squad is present in the Dark Times and are harvesting genetic material from Dark Times species.

• COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times: Episode 3

The Daleks are in an alliance with the Eighth Doctor.

• PROSE: All Flesh is Grass (Chapters 4-16)

Sometime after the Battle, the Doctor leaves the Daleks during their attack on the Ninth Doctor’s Coffin Ship. The Daleks attempt to enact the Emperor’s orders by attacking pre-Time Lord Gallifrey but are defeated and their ship is forced into the Time Vortex by the Eighth Doctor.

PROSE: Mission to the Known

During chapter 8 of All Flesh is Grass. The Eighth Doctor has left the Daleks, leaving his TARDIS behind on the Dalek Time Ship. The Commander and Executioner observe a recorded message from their Emperor, who instructs them to avert the creation of the Time Lords. This scene is a rewritten and slightly expanded upon version of a scene in the novel.

• AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction

Immediately after All Flesh is Grass. The Dalek Time Squad is destroyed in the Time Vortex.

• PROSE: Exit Strategy

After the destruction of the Time Squad. The Strategist escapes the Time Vortex via emergency temporal shift.

• NOTVALID: The Hollow Planet

The last surviving member of the Dalek Time Squad attempts to broadcast a warning about the Doctor from a mining planet. The Dalek is forcibly ejected into space via the facility's trash ejector shoot. Prequel to A Dalek Awakens.

• WC: The Last Message

The last surviving member of the Dalek Time Squad is damaged and floating in space, trying to warn the universe about the Doctor.

• AUDIO: Genetics of the Daleks

Prequel to A Dalek Awakens. The last surviving member of the Dalek Time Squad is eventually found by humans aboard the Starship Future in 2985, having become frozen in the Oort cloud. After an encounter with the Fourth Doctor, the Dalek is severely damaged but not destroyed. It kills the last remaining revived member of the starship's crew.

• WC: Genetics of the Daleks

After the events of Genetics of the Daleks, the last Dalek roams the derelict Starship Future.

• NOTVALID: A Dalek Awakens

Still aboard the Starship Future, the last surviving Dalek is damaged and attempting to repair itself.

Cold War with the Time Lords

• PROSE: Father Time (cameo)

The Eighth Doctor sees a gunmetal grey Dalek in a vision of his future.

• PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows (cameo)

Looking into his future through the Tomorrow Window, the Eighth Doctor sees a ruined city, with many buildings on fire, a Dalek saucer hovering overhead, with gunmetal grey Daleks below scanning the ruins.

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 1: The Great War

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 1: Fugitives

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 1: Tangled Web

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 1: X and the Daleks

The Dalek Time Controller and Time Lords are using temporal technology against each other. No higher-ranking Daleks appear.

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 2: The Traitor

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 2: Time's Horizon

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 2: Eyes of the Master

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 4: The Monster of Montmartre

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 4: Master of the Daleks

The Time Controller's faction conquers Earth in the 20th century.

• AUDIO: Dark Eyes 4: Eye of Darkness

The Daleks are ruled by a Supreme Dalek. It orders the creation of a new Time Strategist.

• AUDIO: Gallifrey V: Arbitration

• AUDIO: Gallifrey VI: Extermination

• AUDIO: Gallifrey VI: Ascension

The Daleks are acting against Gallifrey. They are invading other timelines. They are depicted as bronze. They refer to their alliance with Irving Braxiatel in Death and the Daleks. They remember Romana II from The Apocalypse Element and say she has shown the Daleks mercy before (The Time of the Daleks).

• PROSE: Birth of a Legend

After the bronze Daleks exterminate the Mechonoids in the Battle of Magella, the Cult of Skaro is formed by the Dalek Emperor. The Time War has been predicted.

• PROSE: Mission to Galacton

The Dalek Empire, at its height prior to the Time War, conquers the planet Galacton. The Daleks are depicted as bronze.

• COMIC: Harvest of the Daleks

The Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts find an "ancient" bronze Dalek harvest ship collecting children for their battle computers. The Doctor reasons that it was taken "out of mothballs" for the Time War.

From the perspective of humanity, the Daleks suddenly disappear "thousands of years" prior to the year 200,100. As recalled by Jack Harkness, a former Time Agent from the 51st century, the Daleks vanished from time and space at a point when they were the "greatest threat in the universe." (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

The Last Great Time War

• PROSE: Father of the Daleks

Shortly after the declaration of the Time War, the Daleks recruit Davros.

• AUDIO: Soldier Obscura

Early in the War.

• PROSE: The Third Wise Man

Early in the War (from the Daleks’ POV at least), Davros is lost to the Nightmare Child.

• AUDIO: The Wrath of Medusa

• AUDIO: Runtime

• AUDIO: The Master's Dalek Plan

The Master rewrites history to replace Davros as the Daleks’ creator.

• AUDIO: Shockwave

The Dalek Time Strategist recruits a parallel universe version of the Master to stop his N-Space counterpart’s rewriting of time.

• AUDIO: He Who Wins

Having restored the normal timeline, the Strategist orders the Master’s capture, leading directly into Beneath the Viscoid.

• AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid

• AUDIO: The Good Master

The Daleks are still pursuing the Master.

• AUDIO: Desperate Measures

Early in the War.

• AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm

The Master is shown the Dalek Emperor seizing the Cruciform.

• AUDIO: Sphere of Influence

• AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention

• AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus / Echoes of War / The Conscript / One Life

• AUDIO: The Lords of Terror / Planet of the Ogrons / In the Garden of Death /Jonah

• AUDIO: Fugitive in Time / The War Valeyard

The Daleks are erased from existence by the Valeyard, except the Time Strategist.

• AUDIO: Palindrome / Restoration of the Daleks

The Time Strategist uses an alternate Davros to restore the Daleks via dimensional engineering. After becoming disillusioned with the simulacra Davros’ leadership, the Strategist arranges the Dalek Emperor’s resurrection. He has the simulacra put in stasis.

• AUDIO: Previously, Next Time

Cass Fermazzi's gunship fights off a Dalek fleet from the feeding hives of the Vantross only to be caught in the crossfire when the Time Lords arrive, precipitating the Eighth Doctor's regeneration into the War Doctor. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)

• AUDIO: The Shadow Squad

• COMIC: Ambush

The War Doctor is young with stubble on his face.

• AUDIO: Saviour

• AUDIO: Destroyer

• AUDIO: Temmosus

• AUDIO: Rewind

• AUDIO: Unity

The Daleks corner Romana on Unity.

• AUDIO: Dissolution

The Daleks pursue Romana’s associates after Unity and Braxiatel rescues Romana from them. The Time Strategist presents the Emperor with a new plan.

• AUDIO: Homecoming

The Daleks enact the Time Strategist’s plan but are defeated. Romana claims the Doctor wouldn’t have such a problem with weapons anymore, implying this is after his regeneration into the War Doctor.

• AUDIO: The First Days of Phaidon

• AUDIO: Remnants

• AUDIO: Ambition’s Debt

• AUDIO: The Mission / The Abyss / The Horror

• AUDIO: Berserker

• AUDIO: Memnos

• AUDIO: The Hybrid’s Choice

• AUDIO: Exit Strategy

The Time Strategist’s mind is linked to the Emperor’s, removing its independence.

• AUDIO: Morbius the Mighty

• AUDIO: The Innocent / The Thousand Worlds / The Heart of the Battle

• AUDIO: Legion of the Lost / A Thing of Guile / The Neverwhen

Skaro's history has been time locked to prevent further interference in their timeline.

• AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex / The Eternity Cage / Eye of Harmony

• AUDIO: Pretty Lies / The Lady of Obsidian / The Enigma Dimension

• COMIC: The Bidding War

The Time Lords unleash the Great Vampires against the Dalek Fleet.

• PROSE: The Stranger

The Doctor is unsure about whether he is even a warrior anymore.

• PROSE: Engines of War

400 years after regenerating, the War Doctor vows to end the war.

• AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests

A fragmented Dalek transmission captured during the Time War speaks of an attack formation, the extermination of the Time Lords and an impending Dalek victory.

• WC: The Last Day

The Gallifreyan city of Arcadia falls to the Daleks.

• TV: The Day of the Doctor

Set shortly after Arcadia has fallen. The War Doctor survives the Last Great Time War, and with the help of his other twelve incarnations, destroys the fleet of Daleks concentrating fire on Gallifrey on the final day of the Time War.

• WC: The Final Battle

During the Daleks’ final attack on Gallifrey,

Surviving the Time War

There are five known groups of Daleks which survive the Time War independently. four of the five are effective dead-ends of the timeline.

"Dead-ends"

• TV: Dalek

A lone Dalek survives the War, but kills itself.

• PROSE: I Am a Dalek

A lone Dalek sent out before the end of the War falls to Earth; it is destroyed before it travel forward to rebuild the Dalek race in the year 500,000,000, a time when no-one knows of the Daleks.

• COMIC: Carnage Zoo / Flight and Fury / The Living Ghosts / Extermination of the Daleks

A group of bronze Daleks are confronted by the Tenth Doctor in the 22nd century; they self-destruct after being rendered intangible.

• TV: Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

The Dalek Emperor survives the Time War and ends up in the Sol system circa the year 199,900. He eventually leads a fleet in an invasion of Earth in 200,100, but they are wiped out by the Bad Wolf.

The Cult of Skaro

• TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday / WC: Tardisode 13

The Cult of Skaro and many prisoners within the Genesis Ark, who escaped into the Void. At the end of Doomsday, the Cult emergency temporal shift, leading into further stories. Tardisode 13 is set during the Battle of Canary Wharf.

• PROSE: Clash of the Titans / Terror in the Streets! / Small Victories

Historical accounts of the Battle of Canary Wharf.

• NOTVALID: The Invasion of Bash Street

The Tenth Doctor catches up with a lone bronze Dalek on Earth. He alludes to the events of Doomsday.

• TV: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks

Skaro is referenced as being destroyed in The Time War. The Cult has recently escaped Canary Wharf. At the end of Evolution of the Daleks, Dalek Caan again temporal shifts.

• PROSE: Dalek Caan

Caan breaks through the Time lock of the Last Great Time War and sees all of reality, setting this soon after Evolution of the Daleks.

• TV: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

Caan is an insane oracle after rescuing Davros from the Time War. Leads directly into Journey's End.

• PROSE: The Battle of the Valiant

An account of the Dalek attack on the Valiant

• TV: The Waters of Mars (cameo)

The Dalek appearing in Adelaide's flashback is from when the 26 planets appeared in the Earth's sky.

A new paradigm

• TV: The Beast Below / Victory of the Daleks

Surviving Daleks, which, according to PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, were made from Davros' cells as in The Stolen Earth / Journey's End, awake the New Dalek Paradigm.

Deeming themselves to be the winners of the Time War, the Daleks organise themselves into a new Supreme Council and seize the weapon production facilities on Goth to build a new army, erecting space stations on the borders of their many enemies. Studying the old Dalek Empire's Robomen, the Paradigm improve on the technology to create the Dalek puppets. (PROSE: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

• GAME: Return to Earth/Evacuation Earth

A ship of New Paradigm Daleks wage two attacks on the SS Lucy Gray in their efforts to recover their lost Time Axis but are destroyed in a confrontation with the Eleventh Doctor.

• GAME: City of the Daleks

Acquiring the Eye of Time, the New Dalek Paradigm return to and rebuild Skaro. Led by a new Dalek Emperor, they exterminate humanity in 1963 but are confronted by the Eleventh Doctor, who destroys the Daleks and restores history.

• GAME: The Mazes of Time

• COMIC: The Only Good Dalek

In the 41st century, the New Dalek Paradigm are engaged against the Space Security Service, whose records of the Daleks span back to the Dalek War Machines, in a conflict which has lasted 100 years. Some decades after The Daleks' Master Plan, the Daleks recently lost Caridos in 3994.

• TV: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

With a fleet of their own, the New Paradigm joins the Pandorica Alliance which imprisons the Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica, only to be embroiled in the total event collapse.

• NOTVALID: The Eleventh Doctor Interactive Story

The Eleventh Doctor is imprisoned in a new Pandorica. The New Dalek Paradigm is in conflict with a faction of "impure" bronze-type Daleks that identify as the children of Davros.

• GAME: Dalek Supremacy

Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm defend their weapons bases from Cybus-style Cybermen, blue-armoured Sontarans and Silurian Hunters.

• TV: The Wedding of River Song

The Eleventh Doctor finds and takes an eyestalk and data core from a heavily damaged Supreme Dalek of New Dalek Paradigm to gain insight on his conflict with the Silence. An identically damaged Dalek is seen at the Dalek Asylum. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)

• GAME: The Eternity Clock

Acquiring a piece of the Eternity Clock, the Daleks, led by a new Emperor, invade Earth in 2106. Their plot to become the new Lords of Time is thwarted by the Eleventh Doctor.

Following the failures of the New Dalek Paradigm, the Parliament of the Daleks is reformed, led by the Prime Minister of the Daleks who relegates the Paradigm archetypes to an officer class whilst restoring bronze Daleks as foot soldiers in order to inspire the universe's fear of the Daleks. The original Supreme Dalek of the New Paradigm serves as second-in-command to the Prime Minister. (PROSE: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

• AUDIO: Living History

The Dalek is described as bronze, and depicted as a Time War-era Dalek on the cover.

• COMIC: The Dalek Project

Bronze Daleks travel back throughout Earth's history to study human behaviour for their future conflict.

• AUDIO: The Dalek Transaction

A lone Dalek, one of a new "elite" breed of Kaled mutant, is found by UNIT after crashing to Earth. Its casing, seen on the cover, is a weathered bronze design.

• PROSE: The Dalek Generation

The Dalek Time Controller is in its home time period. The Daleks know the Doctor. The New Dalek Paradigm is referenced. Dalek puppets appear.

• AUDIO: Patient Zero

The Time Controller invades the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. The Daleks it is accompanied by, and the Controller itself, are depicted as having pre-Time War designs. The Time Controller is seemingly destroyed by the Sixth Doctor. However it survives, plunging back through Dalek history. (See Timeline - Dalek Time Controller)

• TV: Asylum of the Daleks

While Skaro is in ruins and has been abandoned, the Prime Minister rules the Parliament of the Daleks, consisting of the New Paradigm's Supreme, Strategist and Drones with a majority of bronze Daleks. The Daleks' memories of the Doctor are wiped by Oswin Oswald.

• AUDIO: Didn’t You Kill My Mother?

The Doctor hears transmissions of Daleks invading Medrüth.

• AUDIO: Daleks Victorious

The Daleks, led by the Paradigm answering to the Prime Minister, invade Medrüth. They have forgotten the Doctor and initially believe all the Time Lords are dead. After conquering Medrüth they begin a fresh offensive on the universe.

• AUDIO: The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood

Immediately following Daleks Victorious the Daleks capture the Doctor however this sequence of events is undone by Valerie’s meddling in Time.

• AUDIO: Victory of the Doctor

The Doctor halts the offensive begun in Daleks Victorious by trapping the Daleks within the pocket universe of the Arkheon device. Once they have conquered the entire Arkheon universe, the Daleks are destroyed by the device being infected by the Darinthian Blight. The Doctor speculates some Daleks will have survived however.

• TV: The Time of the Doctor

The Daleks, seeking to prevent the Time Lords from returning to the universe, participate in the 900 year long Siege of Trenzalore, which begins no earlier than the 51st century (Theory:Timeline - The Church).

300 years into the siege, the Daleks attack the Church and regain their memories of the Doctor through Tasha Lem. The original Supreme Dalek of the New Paradigm deems the Prime Minister unfit and exterminates him, taking control of the Daleks. (PROSE: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

At the end of the siege, the Daleks attempt to kill the Eleventh Doctor only to be destroyed by his regeneration, wiping out the original members of the New Dalek Paradigm. (PROSE: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

• GAME: The Doctor and the Dalek

• TV: Into the Dalek

Bronze Daleks and humans are at war with one another. The Dalek command net has records of the Daleks' post-Time War history. The Twelfth Doctor meets a "good Dalek" who he calls Rusty.

• TV: The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

Davros, who 'should have been dust centuries ago', says that he and the Daleks rebuilt Skaro. These Daleks, who Davros acknowledges as his "children", consist of numerous casing types, from bronze "Time War" Daleks to early Dalek War Machines but none from the New Dalek Paradigm. In old footage of Davros' and the Doctor's battles, Remembrance and The Stolen Earth are shown. Davros is seemingly unaware of Gallifrey's survival before he is informed of it by the Twelfth Doctor, though he may be speaking deceitfully. In any case, Davros' servant, Colony Sarff, can travel as far as Karn to meet the Sisterhood, who themselves have access to Gallifrey.

• PROSE: Abduction

At a point in Earth history when the British government is active and the notion of alien life is ridiculed, the Daleks plot to start World War III to pave the way for an invasion. They are opposed by the Twelfth Doctor.

• TV: Twice Upon a Time

Billions of years after Into the Dalek, the Twelfth Doctor catches up with Rusty who is living in seclusion from the rest of his kind on Villengard.

• PROSE: The Monster Vault

The New Dalek Paradigm, said to only have ever been "ostensibly" pure, are no longer a part of Dalek ranks because the Daleks learned that other species mocked the paradigm's casings, explaining why modern stories feature bronze and classic Daleks, but not the original Paradigm design.

• TV: Revolution of the Daleks (Death Squad Daleks)

The Daleks have established death squads that hunt down impurities. One death squad saucer is stationed in the Time Vortex until being drawn to 2021 Earth to wipe out the Defence Drones.

• November 2021 - TV: Once, Upon Time

Following the first Flux event, bronze Daleks fight for control of the universe with the Cyber-Warriors and the time-active Sontarans.

• 5 December 2021 - TV: The Vanquishers

The Daleks, along with the Cybermen, are tricked into assembling their forces to be destroyed by the final Flux event by the Sontarans, who are themselves destroyed when they are outwitted by the Thirteenth Doctor.

• 31 December 2021 - TV: Eve of the Daleks

A squad of bronze Dalek Executioners make an attempt to kill the Doctor on Earth, blaming her for their losses at the hands of the Flux.

• TV: The Power of the Doctor

Bronze Daleks ally with the Spy Master in his ill-fated plot to eliminate the Thirteenth Doctor.

• COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks

Twelve Kaled mutants are captured by humans who use their memories as material for the Dalek Dome's simulations of Dalek history, spanning eras such as the Golden Emperor, the Spiridon campaign, the Imperial Daleks, the bronze Daleks and the New Dalek Paradigm. This is discovered by the Fourteenth Doctor in 2323, who stops an attack by simulated Daleks attempting to manifest in reality whilst leaving the matter of whether or not to destroy the mutants up to Georgette Gold.

Other

• PROSE: Warmonger (dream)
• PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus (dream)
• GAME: Dalek Attack

Davros, operating alongside a Dalek Emperor, leads an invasion of Earth in the year 2254, which is thwarted by the Seventh Doctor and Ace. According to PROSE: Head Games, the events of Dalek Attack are a simulation the Doctor created by fictional energies.

• PROSE: The Also People (dream)

Unplaced

• TV: The War Games (cameo)
• AUDIO: The Four Doctors

The earlier Daleks, those of the Battle of Pejorica, do not have Dalek Primes or Special Weapons Daleks. This would indicate that the Dalek Prime is not the same as the one from War of the Daleks. They do have Robomen, however.

• PROSE: Hide and Seek

The Third Doctor and Jo Grant save refugees from being lured to a Dalek-occupied planet.

• COMIC: *Sub Zero

The Daleks attack Sydney, intending to use it as a base to conquer Earth, but are defeated by the Third Doctor.

• COMIC: The Planet of the Daleks

The Third Doctor is drawn to Skaro by the Daleks, seeking revenge for the events of *Sub Zero, but manages to elude them.

• COMIC: The Return of the Daleks

The slatted Daleks make two unsucessful attempts to invade the planet Anhaut, separated by 800 years. In both instances, a Red Dalek leads silver drones.

• COMIC: Happy Deathday (videogame)
• AUDIO: The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase

Silver Daleks attempt to use the Quantum Gateway for the "conquest of infinity" but are stopped by the Fourth Doctor and Romana I.

• AUDIO: Nightmare of the Daleks
• COMIC: Kane's Story

In the 82nd century, Davros leads the Dalek Empire, which is "demolished" during the Skeletoid invasion of Mutter's Spiral. Davros is depicted as he appears in Resurrection/Revelation.

• AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure

The Daleks, led by the Dalek Emperor, ally with the Cybermen in a gambit to destroy the Earth in 1988 by sabotaging a peace conference. This plot is thwarted by the Sixth Doctor.

• GAME: Destiny of the Doctors

The Master uses silver Daleks to menace the Graak within the Doctor's TARDIS.

• AUDIO: Emissary of the Daleks

Daleks have a Dalek Supreme and a Special Weapons Dalek.

• AUDIO: The Four Doctors

The later Daleks have a Dalek Prime and a Special Weapons Dalek.

• AUDIO: Death and the Daleks

Not long after the Second Dalek War in real time. The Daleks aren't native to this time, and their involvement changes history. Benny is familiar with the Dalek-Movellan war - but this must be down to her time travel experience.

• AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies

The Dalek timeship is dimensionally transcendental, sentient, and somewhat humanoid.

• PROSE: Dead Romance

The Daleks and Time Lords make a treaty.

• TV: Doctor Who / PROSE: The Novel of the Film

The Daleks, based on Skaro and led by a Dalek Emperor, execute the Master, and allow the Seventh Doctor to take his remains to Gallifrey. War of the Daleks confirms that this occurs before Skaro's destruction in Remembrance of the Daleks.

• AUDIO: Vengeance

After finding out about the Master's survival in Doctor Who, they track him down to 23rd century Earth. While the mission is led by the Dalek Supreme, the mission is devised by the temporally sensitive Dalek Litigator. The Master kills the supreme, but the Litigator escapes through a "temporal displacement". The Dalek Parliament is referred to. The Daleks are tempted by offers of technology from Magnus Drake, stating that "precise control of vortex travel would be of value".

• PROSE: The Eight Doctors
• PROSE: The Last Resort (cameo)

Daleks are seen in the time vortex fleeing another dimension.

• AUDIO: The Dalek Trap

Daleks have time travel capabilities but are unable to escape the gravity of a black hole. They also know of the Time Lords and the Doctor.

• PROSE: The Third Wise Man
• PROSE: The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes
• PROSE: The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity

The Daleks are engaged in a galactic battle against the Ice Warriors. Predominantly grey but led by a Gold Dalek, the Daleks use temporal technology, bronze command saucers and Councillor-class assault craft (Planet of the Daleks). Skaldak uses the Daleks' temporal technology to escape, ending up on Earth circa 3000 BC.

• GAME: Dalek Attack

Davros, operating alongside a golden Dalek Emperor, leads an invasion of Earth in the year 2254, which is thwarted by the Seventh Doctor and Ace. He appears with an organic hand, placing this before Revelation of the Daleks. Davros has stolen a Time Ring, which he has possibly used to travel to an earlier period of Dalek history. As such, the Time Lords personally intervene to stop him.

• COMIC: Cyber Crisis

Silver Daleks are in conflict with the CyberNeomorphs and see to the destruction of Cyber-Command on New Mondas.

• PROSE: Lost Patrol

Implicitly set during the Time War, a ship of Daleks fall through a tear in space-time created by their relentless enemy. They end up in the 64th century, where humans believe them to be extinct.

• PROSE: War and Peace

A new race of Daleks created by Gonzo Orcini begin as pacifists but ultimately fall in line with the Old Dalek mentality. They recall the "days of Davros" and his work on Necros.

Time Lord Victorious

• WC: 14683 UNIT Field Log

A bronze Dalek emerges through the Time Fracture to Earth in 2020.

The Time War

• AUDIO: Aimed at the Body / Lightspeed / Interlude

aHistory Timeline

This pre-Time War timeline is from the fourth edition of AHistory. Most of the dates given here are speculative.

• 683: AUDIO: Innocence
• 696: AUDIO: Purity
• 709: AUDIO: Corruption
• 709: AUDIO: Davros / Corruption
• 759: AUDIO: Guilt
• 760: TV: Genesis of the Daleks
• 1763: COMIC: Genesis of Evil
• 1765: COMIC: Genesis of Evil
• 1765: COMIC: Power Play
• 1765: COMIC: Duel of the Daleks
• 1765: COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge
• 1765: COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor
• 1765: COMIC: Plague of Death
• 1765: COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons
• 1765: COMIC: Eve of War
• 1765: COMIC: The Archives of Phryne
• 1765: COMIC: The Rogue Planet
• 1765: COMIC: Impasse
• 2020: TV: The Power of the Daleks
• 2050: AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks
• 2146: COMIC: The Terrorkon Harvest
• 2146: COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear
• 2146: COMIC: Shadow of Humanity
• 2146: COMIC: The Emissaries of Jevo
• 2146: COMIC: The Road to Conflict
• 2146: COMIC: Return of the Elders
• 2163: AUDIO: Masters of Earth
• 2167: TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• 2170: TV: The Chase
• 2172: TV: Day of the Daleks
• 2188: AUDIO: Lucie Miller
• 2190: AUDIO: Lucie Miller / To the Death
• 2199: PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
• 2263: TV: The Daleks
• 2430: COMIC: The Dogs of Doom
• 2540: TV: Frontier in Space
• 2540: TV: Planet of the Daleks
• 2550: COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer
• 2550: COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks
• 2550: COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
• 2560: PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks
• 2560: AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks
• 2600: TV: Death to the Daleks
• 2602: AUDIO: Death and the Daleks
• 3340: PROSE: The Dalek Factor
• 3994: AUDIO: The Destroyers
• 4000: TV: Mission to the Unknown
• 4000: TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
• 4015: COMIC: The Only Good Dalek
• 4066: TV: The Evil of the Daleks
• 4070: COMIC: Bringer of Darkness
• 4090: COMIC: Children of the Revolution
• 4500: TV: Destiny of the Daleks
• 4590: TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
• 4600: AUDIO: Davros
• 4615: TV: Revelation of the Daleks
• 4615: AUDIO: The Davros Mission
• 4620: AUDIO: The Juggernauts
• 4625: COMIC: Up Above the Gods / Emperor of the Daleks!
• 4663: TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
• 4693: PROSE: War of the Daleks
• 4703: AUDIO: Terror Firma
• 5200: COMIC: Fire and Brimstone
• 5250: AUDIO: The Mutant Phase
• 5256: AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
• 5256: AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
• 5425: AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks / The Human Factor
• 5425: AUDIO: Return of the Daleks
• 5426: AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
• 5427: AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 1 / The Fearless: Part 2 / The Fearless: Part 3 / The Fearless: Part 4
• 5430: AUDIO: "Death to the Daleks!" / Project Infinity
• 5436: AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One / Dalek War: Chapter Two / Dalek War: Chapter Three / Dalek War: Chapter Four
• 5441: AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Four
• 7500: AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One / Dalek War: Chapter Two / Dalek War: Chapter Three / Dalek War: Chapter Four
• 7520: AUDIO: The Exterminators / The Healers / The Survivors / The Demons / The Warriors / The Future
• 18,000: AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks

Other timelines

• Theory:Timeline - The Dalek Problem
• DWM's History of the Daleks
• Theory:Timeline - The History of the Daleks
• Theory:Timeline - The Discontinuity Guide's Dalek History
• Theory:Timeline - The Dalek Handbook
• Theory:Timeline - Dalek: The Astounding Untold History
• Theory:Timeline - Dalek Combat Training Manual

External links

• From the Discontinuity Guide, the first Dalek history
• From the Discontinuity Guide, the second Dalek history
• DisContinuity for The Time of the Daleks at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide (Features Dalek Empire Timeline)