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Revision as of 01:52, 23 October 2018
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This page lists the order of stories in the Doctor Who Universe timeline from Event One to the far future. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, and LegoK9's timeline. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
Timeline rules:
- Only list stories. References to dates that the story does not take place in are to be excluded
- Stories without any clear indication of an era should be omitted. (e.g. TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
- Many stories will contradict each other, so these contradictions should be noted but treated equally. (e.g. TV: The Enemy of the World and other stories set in 2018)
- Direct quotes indicating the time period the story takes place should be provided. (Quotes sourced from another story should indicate the story it is from.)
Format (list all available):
- Day Month Year - MEDIUM: Story title
- CHARACTER/TEXT/NOTE: Indication of time period
Timeline
BC years
- NYSSA: You don't understand the physics of the situation. We're already caught in the field of Event One. It's pulling us in faster and faster.
- DOCTOR: Enormous. Biggest explosion of all time. Event One.
- KARI: The Big Bang?
- DOCTOR: There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two.
Prehistory
- c. 6,000,000,000 - TV: Hide
- DOCTOR: About six billion years ago. It's a Tuesday, I think.
- c. 4,600,000,000 - TV: The Runaway Bride
- DOCTOR: We've gone back four point six billion years. There's no solar system, not yet. Only dust and rocks and gas. That's the Sun, over there. Brand new. Just beginning to burn.
- c. 400,000,000 - TV: City of Death
- TANCREDI: Four hundred million years I think is the figure you're looking for.
- c. 140,000,000 - TV: Time-Flight
- DOCTOR: Some a hundred and forty million years ago.
- c. 65,000,000 - TV: Earthshock
- DOCTOR: It may be of some small consequence to know we've travelled backwards in time some sixty five million years.
- NOTE: 100,000 BC was a working title.
3rd millennium
- c. 2500 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
- QUOTE?
2nd millennium
- c. 1500 - TV: The Time Monster
- DOCTOR: Yes. Right, Jo, we're about to land back in Cambridge. Just think. It all happened three thousand, five hundred years ago.
- NOTE: Indicated in the story synopsis
- TEXT: Egypt, 1334 BC
- c. 1200 - TV: The Myth Makers
- QUOTE?
3rd century
- TEXT: 221 BC
AD years
1st century
- July 64 - TV: The Romans
- DOCTOR: Yes. Caesar Nero made it. The rebuilding of Rome. Let me see, where are we now? 64 AD, July. Yes, of course. He sets fire to Rome.
- DOCTOR: It's 79 AD, twenty third of August, which makes volcano day tomorrow.
- Takes place during the same events as The Fires of Pompeii.
- TEXT: Six months later
2nd century
- DOCTOR: Just followed the coordinates on the cliff face. Earth. Britain. One oh two am. No, PM. No, AD.
- BILL: Aberdeen, Scotland, second century AD.
9th century
- 8XX - TV: The Girl Who Died
- ASHILDR (The Woman Who Lived): I've had eight hundred years of adventure, enough to fill a library if you write it down.
11th century
- DOCTOR: Now, if Harold is king, and Edward was laid to rest at the beginning of the year, then it must be 1066! Yes. Judging by the appearance of these leaves, late summer. And a balmy night, a balmy night.
12th century
- TEXT: Essex 1138
- 1190 - TV: The Crusade
- Third Crusade.
- Autumn 1190 - TV: Robot of Sherwood
- DOCTOR: No, no. Time of year? What season?
- ROBIN: Oh, Dame Autumn has draped her mellow skirts about the forest, Doctor. The time of mists and harvest approaches.
- DOCTOR: It's 1190.
13th century
- DOCTOR: It's 1207.
- DOCTOR: March the fourth, 1215.
- 12XX - TV: The Time Warrior
- SARAH (The Sontaran Experiment): Linx. A Sontaran. Can't be. You were destroyed in the thirteenth century. You were blown to smithereens.
- 1289 - TV: Marco Polo
- POLO: How long have you been travelling? It is twelve hundred and eighty nine and this is the Plain of Pamir, known to those who travel to Cathay as The Roof of the World.
14th century
- DOCTOR: The Black Death, 1348. I meant to warn you.
15th century
- ASHILDR: The Battle of Agincourt. My first stint as a man. No-one will ever know that a mere woman helped end the Hundred Years' War.
- After 1430 - TV: The Aztecs
- SUSAN: Well, the Aztecs were Mexicans. We must be on Earth again. I wonder what year it is.
- BARBARA: He must have died around 1430, I should think.
- DOCTOR: We've landed on Earth. Glass technology indicates Mediterranean area. Late fifteenth century. Not a very pleasant time.
- NOTE: From the synopsis, 1492. Columbus' first voyage to the new world.
16th century
- 1505 - TV: City of Death
- DOCTOR: The original, I presume? Completed in 1503 and it's now what, 1505, and you're getting the old boy to do you another six, yes, which you then brick up in a cellar in Paris for Scarlioni to find in four hundred and seventy four time.
- TEXT: This was in the year 1-Tochtli (1506).
- DOCTOR 10: England, 1562.
- ANNE: Date, Monsieur? August the twenty-third as
- DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes, I know that. The year, the year, hmm?
- ANNE: Fifteen seventy two, Monsieur. But surely you know that?
- c. 1570s - WC: Tardisode 2
- ROBERT (Tooth and Claw): The story goes back three hundred years. Every full moon, the howling rings through the valley. The next morning, livestock is found ripped apart and devoured.
- DOCTOR: Ah, you got to love Venice. So many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova. Ooo, that reminds me. 1580. That's all right. Casanova doesn't get born for a hundred and forty five years. Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken.
- DOCTOR: I think so. Round about 1599.
17th century
- DOCTOR: Well, in strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies, I've known since November the twenty third, 1638.
- DOCTOR: Oh, no, this isn't a visit, I've got a job to do. I'm here looking for an alien object which has no business being here on Earth in 1651.
- TEXT: ...in 1651, a dead angel is found in a tree in Lincolnshire and a nymph rises from the waters of Kent...
- 16XX - TV: The Smugglers
- DOCTOR: Yes, I'm afraid you're going to lose your bet, young man. That gentleman comes from the seventeenth century.
- Between 1660 and 1685 - TV: The Impossible Astronaut
- KING CHARLES: Where's the Doctor?
- The Great Fire of London.
- TEXT: ...in 1671, Aphra Behn -- she-spy and poetesse -- infiltrates a gathering of alchemists...
- AVERY: April the first, 1699.
- DOCTOR: Yes. Okay, problem word. Seventeenth century. My ship automatically, er, noticed-ish that your ship was having some bother.
18th century
- REINETTE: Of course I can. Seventeen hundred and twenty-seven.
- 1745 - TV: The War Games
- 16 April 1746 - TV: The Highlanders
- The Battle of Culloden
- 1753 - TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
- 1758 - TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
- 1762 - AUDIO: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat
- MARY CULVER - [An invasion] Of 1762. Via Britain.
- COMPASSION - I'll explain once you're back here with us. In 1763.
- NOTE - Stated in publisher's summary.
- LOUIS: Leaving Versailles for the last time. Only forty-three when she died. Too young. Too young. Illness took her in the end. She always did work too hard. What does she say?
- TEXT: 1774. The Heart of Civilisation.
- NOTE: Said countless times in text.
- 23 - 27 July 1794 - TV: The Reign of Terror
- ROBESPIERRE: But can I trust them? If this motion gets underway, they will turn against me to save their own necks. Mark my words, LeMaitre. If this plot is successful, tomorrow, the 27th of July 1794, will be a date for history.
19th century
- 4 - 5 February 1814 - TV: Thin Ice
- DOCTOR: Our London. We're on the Thames. The last great Frost Fair. 1814, February the fourth.
- PERI: I could have been stuck in the eighteen hundreds forever.
- Winter 1842 - TV: The Snowmen
- England, 1842.
- BOY: Christmas Eve, sir. Year of our Lord 1851, sir.
- TEXT: October 1853, Strines.
- TEXT: January 1854, Strines.
- DOCTOR: I did it. Give the man a medal. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860. ... It's not 1860, it's 1869.
- Assuming no time travel was involved.
- ISAAC: Them being scared scares me. War only ended five years back. That old violence is still under the surface.
- IAN: Really? I haven't seen the joke yet, I must say. One thing I did see, by the way. The name of that ship we were on: The Mary Celeste.
- 1879 - TV: Tooth and Claw
- DOCTOR: 1879. Same difference
- DOCTOR: Mars. 1881, or thereabouts. According to the Tardis, that's when the message was made.
- The historical gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- TEXT: London, 1882, was very different from the world in which I grew to maturity.
- TEXT: 25 January 1883. 21:10.
- 1883 - TV: Ghost Light
- DOCTOR: This is Inspector MacKenzie from Scotland Yard. He was sent here in 1881 to investigate the disappearance of the owner, Sir George Pritchard.
- ACE: But that was two years ago.
- DOCTOR: 1179 AD. Add a time deflection coefficient of seven hundred and six years, that is 1885 AD.
- CLEMENCY: It was forty years ago, in the heat of Delhi, late one night. I was alone, and that's when I saw it. I loved him so much, it didn't matter. But he was stolen from me. 1885, the year of the great monsoon.
- London, 1888 A.D.
- c. 1889 - TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
- CASEY: Oh, it says in the paper how it could be jollyJack at work again.
- NOTE: Jack the Ripper's 5 canonical killings were between August and November of 1888.
- 1 - 3 June 1890 - TV: Vincent and the Doctor
- BLACK: Well, in that case, probably somewhere between the first and third of June. 1890. Less than a year before, before he killed himself.
- France 1890
- 26th of June, 1890. The recently opened Savoy Hotel.
- Vincent commits suicide.
- JENNY: Well, it is nearly Christmas.
- c. 25 December 1892 - TV: The Great Detective
- JENNY: Merry Christmas!
- 24 - 25 December 1892 - TV: The Snowmen
- TOMBSTONE: Clara Oswin Oswald. Remember me, we shall meet again. Born November 23 1866, died December 24, 1892.
- DOCTOR: Okay, so. Not London 1893. Yorkshire 1893. Near enough.
- London 1893 - prison cell
- 1893+ - TV: Deep Breath
20th century
- See main page: Timeline - 20th century
21st century
- See main page: Timeline - 21st century
22nd century
- c. 2105 - TV: The End of the World
- ROSE: One hundred years.
- DOCTOR: There you go. Step outside those doors, it's the twenty second century.
- DOCTOR: This is Colonel Orson Pink, from about a hundred years in your future.
- Orson is seen being returned home.
- MORAN: Private journal of Captain Jonathan Moran, 21st November 2119. We have located a craft of unknown origin on the lake floor. Visual scans in situ revealed nothing, so we have brought the craft on board and myself and the crew will now investigate.
- 21XX - TV: The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People
- DOCTOR: You're not a monastery, you're a factory. Twenty second century army-owned factory.
- DOCTOR: Ah, here, look. At least we know the century, dear boy. Look.
- IAN: 2164.
- c. 2157 - TV: Paradise Towers
- DOCTOR: You may want to lie by the pool doing nothing all day. I intend to explore. Paradise Towers is supposed to be a remarkable architectural achievement, I'm told. Won all sorts of awards way back in the er, twenty first century. Are you ready?
NOTE: Date based on the novel Lucifer Rising
23rd century
- 22XX - TV: Vengeance on Varos
- PERI: I'm from another time, another century. Nearly three centuries before you were born, I lived in another world. I had an idea you wouldn't believe me.
- ROMANA: It's the first of the leisure planets. In relative Earth date 2250, there's a hideous war against some reptile people called the Foamasi
- BROCK: Argolis is justly proud of tachyonics, but that science, you will admit, remains, after forty years, little more than a curiosity.
24th century
- Year based on AUDIO: Daleks Among Us.
- 23XX - TV: The Happiness Patrol
- Year based on AUDIO: Daleks Among Us.
- 23XX - TV: The Androids of Tara
- 2367 - TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
- Indian Space Agency 2367 A.D.
- VALEYARD: If we may see from the Doctor's arrival on the planet Thoros Beta. Twenty fourth century, last quarter, fourth year, seventh month, third day.
25th century
- Jane tears off the calendar page for Mon 2 March 2472.
- 24XX - TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
- PARRY: Cybermen? A live Cyberman? My dear Viner, they've been dead for the last five hundred years.
- c. 2493 - TV: The Rescue
- VICKI: 2493, of course. My mother had just died and Daddy wanted to get away so he took a job on the planet Astra.
26th century
- 2526 - TV: Earthshock
- ADRIC: The year is 2526 in the time scale you call Anno Domini.
- HARDY: Preparing to enter hyperspace at twenty two oh nine seventy two, two thousand, five hundred and forty EST.
- DOCTOR: Well, it's just a spaceship, Jo. You know, I reckon we must be somewhere in the twenty sixth century. Well, interstellar travel's pretty routine by now.
- Picks up right after Frontier in Space.
27th century
- 26XX - TV: Attack of the Cybermen
28th century
- 27XX - TV: The Sensorites
- MAITLAND: Yes, you see, the whole lower half of England is called Central City now. There hasn't been a London for four hundred years. We come from the twenty eighth century.
29th century
- 29XX - TV: The Mutants
- DOCTOR: According to the Tardis's instrument readings, we are now in the thirtieth century empire.
- DOCTOR: A scheduled flight in the Earth year two thousand nine hundred and eighty six.
32nd century
- c. 3127 (E-Space) - TV: State of Decay
33rd century
- 3295 or 3297 - TV: The Beast Below
- COMPUTER: Name, Amelia Jessica Pond. Age, thirteen hundred and six. (However, the screens read 1308.)
35th century
- 3429 - TV: Snakedance
- SOURCE?
- SOURCE?
37th century
- >37XX - TV: Revelation of the Daleks
- After AUDIO: Davros.
38th century
- 37XX - TV: Sleep No More
- DOCTOR: Thirty eighth century. (Tastes his finger again.) Tuesday.
39th century
- Era based on PROSE: Legacy.
- SOURCE?
40th century
- SOURCE?
- DOCTOR: Look, it's fifty years now since Peladon joined the Galactic Federation, and what have the miners got to show for it? Harder work for the same rewards.
- 39XX - TV: The Infinite Quest
- DOCTOR: I told you it was the fortieth century. The last great oil corporations are sucking the solar system dry to feed demand. Petrol prices have gone through the roof, of course, and the colonies that can't afford to pay are dying.
- CHEN [OC]]: Yes. It is my earnest hope that the solar system may continue along this path of peace, this path that was laid by the signing of the non-aggression pact of 3975. Now, in this year of 4000, we can feel justly proud of that pact.
41st century
- The Battle of Zaruthstra, 4037 A.D.
42nd century
- DOCTOR: Ah, got it. The Ood Sphere, I've been to this solar system before. Years ago. Ages. Close to the planet Sense Sphere. Let's widen out. The year 4126. That is the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
- SOURCE?
43rd century
- 43K2.1 (4221) - WC: Tardisode 8 / TV: The Impossible Planet / WC: Tardisode 9 / TV: The Satan Pit
- JEFFERSON: Captain. Report Officer Scootori Manista PKD, deceased. Forty three K two point one.
- NOTE: Despite the Ood being freed a century prior, AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive retroactively establishes the dating system as [century]K[decade].[year]
- c. 4226 - TV: The End of Time
- DOCTOR: Magnificent. Oh, come on, that is splendid. You've achieved all this in how long?
- OOD SIGMA: One hundred years.
44th century
- 24 December early 43XX - TV: A Christmas Carol
- Christmas eves with Eleventh Doctor, young Kazran, and Abigail.
- 24 - 25 December 4398 - TV: A Christmas Carol
- DOCTOR: Daddy's been dead for twenty years, but you still can't get comfortable where he can see you. There's a Christmas tree in the painting, but none in this house, on Christmas Eve
- Portrait of Elliot Sardick: ELLIOT SARDICK 4302 4378
50th century
- Year based on AUDIO: Neverland.
- c. 5000 - TV: The Ice Warriors
- CLENT: And then the glaciers will move again. Five thousand years of history crushed beneath a moving mountain of ice.
- DOCTOR (The Talons of Weng-Chiang): It was made in Peking for the Commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance. It was in the Ice Age, about the year five thousand.
- NOTE: A Radio Times article published at the time of initial broadcast placed it in the year 3000. This was the date used in DWM 76, The Doctor Who Programme Guide, The Universal Databank, The Doctor Who File and A History of the Universe, and it was referred to in the novels Legacy and The Dark Path. However, The Making of Doctor Who says that it was set three thousand years after the previous story (so circa 4935).
- DOCTOR: Solar system, between Jupiter and Saturn. About five thousand AD. Five thousand AD?
51st century
- c. 5039 - TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
- SOURCE?
- 50XX - WC: Tardisode 4 / TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
- DOCTOR: Fifty first century. Diagmar Cluster, you're a long way from home, Mickey. Two and a half galaxies.
- 50XX - TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
- DOCTOR: Fifty first century. By now you've got holovids, direct to brain downloads, fiction mist, but you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath.
- 50XX - TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone
- DOCTOR: He's their Bishop, they're his Clerics. It's the fifty first Century. The Church has moved on.
52nd century
- The Luna University, 5123
- 51XX - TV: Closing Time
- KOVARIAN: So, they made you a Doctor today, did they? Doctor River Song. How clever you are.
- Stormcage Containment Facility, The Royal Collection, and The Maldovarium 5145
- 51XX - WC: Prequel (A Good Man Goes to War)
- 51XX - TV: A Good Man Goes to War
- 51XX - WC: The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later
- 51XX - TV: The Wedding of River Song
54th century
- Mendorax Dellora (human colony) Christmas Day 5343
- DROXIL: Okay, we're putting our guns on the ground. Okay? Happy now? We're stepping away from our guns. Now can we interrogate you? We're from Androzani Major. The year is 5345, and we mean you no harm. Where are you from?
61st century
- CALENDAR: 60120724
- DONNA: It's the date. Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America.
- After 6087 - TV: Revenge of the Cybermen
- NOTE: Before The Ark in Space. Year based on AUDIO: Wirrn Isle.
121st century
- DOCTOR: Ten thousand years in the future. Step outside, it's the year 12005, the new Roman Empire.
161st century
- HARRY: Well, after ten thousand years, Sarah, he can't be in that much of a hurry.
- NOTE: Earth was devastated by solar flares in 6087 according to AUDIO: Wirrn Isle.
- Picks up from The Ark in Space.
171st century
- 12,000 years later [from the 51st century]
372nd century
- SIGN: Egard Lumb died here 7y2 in the year 37,166.
Far future
- DOCTOR: So, it's two hundred thousand, and it's a spaceship. No, wait a minute, space station, and er, go and try that gate over there. Off you go
- DOCTOR: A hundred years exactly. It's the year two zero zero one zero zero.
- c. 10,000,000 or 57th Segment of Time - TV: The Ark
- DOCTOR: Segment? To use your phrase, sir, what segment are we in now?
- COMMANDER: The fifty seventh.
- DOCTOR: Good gracious! We must have jumped at least ten million years.
- c. 10,000,000 - TV: Frontios
- TURLOUGH - Fleeing from the imminence of a catastrophic collision with the sun, a group of refugees from the doomed planet Earth.
- DOCTOR - We can't interfere. Colony's too new, one generation at most.
- NOTE - Earth's destruction mentioned here lines up with The Ark. The novelisation establishes Frontios is located at the frontier in time, which is dated circa 10,000,000 by The Book of the War.
- c. 10,000,700 - TV: The Ark
- DOCTOR: Well I'm not sure, dear boy. However, the statue's finished. That means seven hundred years must have passed since we last stood here.
- c. 23,000,000 - TV: The Pilot
- DOCTOR: Other end of the universe. Twenty three million years in the future. Oh, yes, it's a time machine too.
- DOCTOR: Oh, a long time after your period. Er, two billion years or more.
- c. 2,000,000,000 - TV: Dragonfire
- Sabalom Glitz era.
- Before 5,000,000,000 - TV: New Earth
- Cassandra's Party
- Before 5,000,000,000 - TV: Hide
- CLARA: No, it's not that. Have we just watched the entire life cycle of Earth, birth to death?
- DOCTOR: This is the year five point five slash apple slash twenty six. Five billion years in your future, and this is the day. This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world.
- DOCTOR (New Earth): So, the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted.
- After 5,000,000,012 - TV: Twice Upon a Time
- DOCTOR: Professor Helen Clay, University Of New Earth, year five billion and twelve.
- 5,000,000,023 - WC: Tardisode 1 / TV: New Earth
- DOCTOR: It's the year five billion and twenty three. We're in the galaxy M87, and this? This is New Earth.
- DOCTOR: Nah. Where's the fun for me? I don't want to go home. Instead, this is much better. Year five billion and fifty-three, planet New Earth. Second hope of mankind.
- NOTE - Mesh Cos' flashbacks. Year is given as Mesh's death date in Who's Who in the City of the Saved.
- DOCTOR: What? The year one hundred trillion? That's impossible.
- GENERAL: Gallifrey is currently positioned at the extreme end of the time continuum, for its own protection. We're at the end of the universe, give or take a star system.
- DOCTOR: The end of the road. This is it, the end of everything. The last planet.
- DOCTOR: The universe is over! It doesn't have a say any more! We're standing on the last ember, the last fragment of everything that ever was. As of this moment, I'm answerable to no-one!