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: The Doctor and Romana complete their quest to assemble the Key to Time, but the Doctor orders it to disperse itself to stop the Back Guardian claiming it. The Doctor installs a [[randomiser]] into the TARDIS to elude the vengeful Black Guardian.
: The Doctor and Romana complete their quest to assemble the Key to Time, but the Doctor orders it to disperse itself to stop the Back Guardian claiming it. The Doctor installs a [[randomiser]] into the TARDIS to elude the vengeful Black Guardian.


==== Hiding from the Black Guardian ====
==== Hiding from the Black Guardian ====

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This page lists appearances of Romana in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based on observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events in each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. There are also many gaps between stories.

The layout of this timeline is based in part on the observations on Doctor Who Reference Guide and Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as DocOhoReviews, The History of Doctor Who, The Discontinuity Guide, Clive Banks Database, the Big Finish forums, The Whoniverse and the Divergent Universe forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Timeline

Romana I

On Gallifrey

Romana meets her future self in the Matrix.

The Key to Time

The Doctor is given a quest by the White Guardian to assemble the Key to Time before the Black Guardian can, and is assigned Romana as an assistant. The Doctor claims to be 756-years-old, but Romana tells him he is really 759-years-old.
Romana is wearing her outfit from The Ribos Operation.
Set between The Ribos Operation and The Pirate Planet.[source needed]
Set the morning after The Ribos Operation, with the Doctor sealing away the First Segment.
The Doctor takes Romana to Earth for the first time.
Romana refers to the events of The Stones of Blood.
The Doctor is taking a break from his quest.
Throughout the Doctor Who Annual 1980, the Doctor is travelling with Romana I and K9, but is not trying to assemble the Key to Time, nor is he using the randomiser, setting these stories during the break from the quest that ended in Heart of TARDIS.
The Doctor is forced to resume his quest for the Key to Time.
The Doctor and Romana are searching for the Fourth Segment, setting this shortly before The Androids of Tara.
The Doctor and Romana are looking for the Fifth Segment, setting this shortly before The Power of Kroll.
The Doctor and Romana investigated a mysterious painting. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault)
The Doctor and Romana are looking for the Sixth Segment, setting this shortly before The Armageddon Factor.
The Doctor and Romana complete their quest to assemble the Key to Time, but the Doctor orders it to disperse itself to stop the Back Guardian claiming it. The Doctor installs a randomiser into the TARDIS to elude the vengeful Black Guardian.

Hiding from the Black Guardian

The Doctor and Romana are hiding from the Black Guardian in 1929 Hampshire, while K9 pilots the TARDIS around the universe to throw the Black Guardian off the Doctor's trail.
The Doctor and Romana are taking a holiday in 1929 Antibes without K9, setting this during The Auntie Matter.
The Doctor has only recently installed the randomizer.
The Doctor's companion is wearing "a neat designer dress straight from the pages of a magazine", a description matching the first incarnation of Romana.
Ending leads directly into War Against the Laan.
K9 is damaged after being affected by the time slippage.
The Doctor gives his age as 760-years-old.
Set one month after War Against the Laan, with K9 fully repaired from the damage caused by the time spillage.
Romana encounters the Daleks for the first time. Ending leads directly into The Final Phase.
Romana elects to continue travelling in the TARDIS instead of returning to Gallifrey.
The Doctor arrived in Prague due to the randomiser, setting this after The Armageddon Factor.

Romana II

The TARDIS traps Romana and takes her place.
The TARDIS releases Romana after forcing her to regenerate.
Romana is still wearing her outfit from Destiny of the Daleks.
Romana is still wearing her outfit from Destiny of the Daleks.
Romana's regeneration is referenced.
The Doctor plans to take Romana to Paris.
The Doctor and Romana fight the Jagaroth in Paris.
Takes place during Nightmare of Eden.
The Doctor mentions recovering from the experiences with the Mandrels and the CET Machine.
Romana does not yet have a sonic screwdriver
The Doctor acquires a chrono-historical stress gauge.
The Doctor is still using the chrono-historical stress gauge.
The Doctor’s the chrono-historical stress gauge book is mentioned.
Romana reveals she has her own sonic screwdriver.
Romana notes that she and the Doctor have been to Paris before.
The Doctor knows about Romana's sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor and Romana are still worried about the Black Guardian's revenge, and Romana posses a sonic screwdriver.
The events of Shada are overwritten by The Five Doctors, and later experienced by the Eighth Doctor. Upon returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor decides to go to Brighton.
The Doctor and Romana have just encountered the "mind-wiping sphere" from Shada.
The Doctor returns to Cambridge to retrieve The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey in order to destroy the Krikkitmen in Shada. Romana remains on Bethselamin during this, but they reunite.
The Doctor is trying to get to Brighton.
The Doctor has reunited with Romana, who is surprised that he is wearing a burgundy coat.
The Doctor says that he has visited an alternate future in which the Roman Empire never fell, referring to Doctor Who and the Iron Legion.
The Doctor decides to go to Brighton.
The Doctor completely removes the randomiser after his holiday in Brighton.
The Doctor is “dressed entirely in red” and there is no sign of K9.
The Time Lords order Romana back to Gallifrey.

Journey into E-Space

En route to Gallifrey, the TARDIS gets sucked into E-Space, where Adric stows away on the TARDIS.
Adric has dealt with Marshmen and Great Vampires.
Romana leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor gives her K9 MK II. The Doctor escapes E-Space with Adric.

Return to Gallifrey

Romana returns from E-Space.
Romana has been working closely with the High Council, but is not yet president. She plans to bring Amy to the academy in attempt to convince them to open it to non-Gallifreyans.
Ruatha deliberately asynchronously involves the Fifth Doctor. She states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.
Romana becomes President.
Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor is the wrong incarnation, and Romana comments on it. Gallifreyan security systems are changed to require a human retinal scan. Romana has been gone 20 years.
Vansell dies.
Romana and Leela know each other, placing this after the events of Zagreus. Leela announces her pregnancy at the conclusion of the novel.
Leela is no longer pregnant. Narvin is the new head of the CIA.

Romana III

Pre-divergence scenes and flashbacks to Romana III's world.
Romana II has regenerated into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War.
A Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns.
Romana is preparing for what is presumably the War.
Gallifrey is destroyed.

The Last Great Time War

Braxiatel changes the past so that Romana doesn't regenerate. She steps down from the presidency and appoints Lady Livia Caralis as her successor.
Time Lords under Livia officially declare war on the Daleks, after they obliterate many other Temporal Powers. The War Council secretly operates a project in the Death Zone that could result in the resurrection of the dead Time Lords.
Follows on from Celestial Intervention. Ace and Braxiatel on a mission for Romana. She mentions that the Doctor refuses to help. Braxiatel wipes out Ace's memory and leaves her on the 20th century Earth, while telling Romana that she was killed by the Daleks.
Follows on from Soldier Obscura. The Master allows himself to be summoned to Gallifrey. He and Leela participate in a mission to recover vital information about a potential weapon that could end the Time War. He then throws Leela into the Time Vortex and decides to head for Arcking.
Follows on from The Devil You Know. Ace and Leela are lost and Braxiatel escapes the war. Livia steps down as Lady President and Rassilon returns to lead Gallifrey, which was the Livia's plan all along. The Doctor still refuses to help

Currently Unplaced

Romana is President of Gallifrey, when she is kidnapped by The Nine.
Romana II, wearing her pink coat, is kidnapped by Adam Mitchell among companions of the Doctor but is soon freed by Frobisher. Leads into Endgame.
The first eleven Doctors rescue their companions from Adam and the Tremas Master.
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