Theory:Timeline - Time Lords

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This page lists appearances of Time Lords other than the Doctor and the Master (unless one of them is on official business) in chronological order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed as much as possible, but still with exceptions, that Time Lords meet in the same order. These cases will be noted. In many cases there are sequences of stories from different Time Lords' perspectives, where individual stories can not be compared.

Limiting factors

Looms

Any story where looms are the dominant method of reproduction on Gallifrey must take place before PROSE: Lungbarrow.

President

Any story involving Romana as president must take place after PROSE: Happy Endings.

Series basics

Time Lord stories can very roughly be sorted based on medium / series

  • Doctor Who stories set on Gallifrey
  • Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords
  • Non-Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords.
  • Big Finish Gallifrey audio stories

Timeline

Old Time

There's an early unmanned Gallifreyan time probe.
Rassilon overthrows the Pythia.
The Rassilon Era begins with Year Zero.
The Time Lords fight the Yssgaroth.
The Time Lords create the Web of Time, which brings logic and order to the universe.
Pre-War. Describes the fall of the Imperator.

The Doctor's Era

The Doctor is on Gallifrey.
One version of the Doctor's departure.
Another version.
The Doctor becomes a CIA agent.
Jamie gets his first look at the Stattenheim remote control, so this is between World Game and The Two Doctors.
The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
Just after The Three Doctors, synchronously with the Third Doctor.
Braxiatel has just returned from some ambassadorial missions.
The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
Leela stays on Gallifrey.
Leela has already married.
Ace is not allowed into the Academy.
Romana returns from E-Space.
Ruatha deliberately asynchronously involves the Fifth Doctor. She states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.
Romana becomes President.
Ace isn't allowed into the Academy.
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.
The Eye of Harmony needs a human retina to open.
Hallan and Darkel are around.
Vansell dies.
Leela is no longer pregnant. Narvin is the new head of the CIA.
Later Graceless stories establish that Amy attends the Academy under Valyes.
Ace, an alien, is allowed into the Academy.

War, Take One

The War is coming, but hasn't started yet. Lolita is anthropomorphic. Note that someone other than Romana is Head of the Presidency when the War begins.
The majority of the stories in this anthology don't indicate the time more specifically than being set during the War. Characters from all of the stories appear in A Hundred Words from a Civil War, but that doesn't help because of the nature of the City.
AF 0 — Resurrection Day. Following Warring States for Compassion. Philip Purser-Hallard's City of the Saved Chronology is very helpful.
AF 0.
AF 30.
AF 37.
Circa AF 60.
Circa AF 71.
Circa AF 140.
Circa AF 150.
Circa AF 150.
Circa AF 150.
Circa AF 150.
Circa AF 150.
Circa AF 160.
Circa AF 240.
Circa AF 250.
The Faction is currently being devastated by the Second Wave (6th year of the War)
Circa AF 250.
Circa AF 250.
Circa AF 261.
Circa AF 281.
Around the 40th year of the war/Circa AF 284.
Mad Norwegian Press convention was that each book was set before its predecessor.
41st year of the War/AF 285.
Circa AF 285.
46th year of the War/AF 290.
Arbitrary positioning. The War is ongoing, the Faction exists enough to care about, Cwejen are in use. Straxus isn't dead, tentatively placing the War before Dark Eyes.
Circa AF 290.
Circa AF 290.
AF 291.
AF 291.
AF 291.
AF 291.
Mad Norwegian Press convention was that each book was set before its predecessor.
Arbitrary positioning. A humanoid timeship appears.
Before the audios for Justine and the Faction.
Follows Alien Bodies for the Shift.
Published in the 50th year of the War/AF 294. Follows The Taking of Planet 5 for the Shift.
Circa AF 295. Morrison feels pain.
AF 300.
AF 300.
AF 300.
The fourth wave exists, so after AF 311, and the Eleven-Day Empire is still intact, so before the audios.
Iris mentions the destruction of the Eleven-Day Empire.

War, Take Two

Pre-divergence scenes and flashbacks to Romana III's world.
Romana II regenerates into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War.
A Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns.
Ace/Narvin post-Intervention Earth execution scene.
Romana is preparing for what is presumably the War.
Gallifrey is destroyed.

Postwar

The War is over.
There are very few Time Lords left, and their role in reality is being replaced.
The Doctor is planning to restore Gallifrey.
In the far future, the last surviving Time Lord (implied to be the Doctor) ruled the universe from the Needle.

War, Take Three

Pre-divergence scenes, Leela and Braxiatel from Romana III's world, and first post-Intervention Earth timeline.

War, Take Four

Pre-divergence scenes and last timeline. Romana steps down from the Presidency.
Lucie Miller is deposited in the Doctor's TARDIS.
The Sisterhood of Karn starts to become involved in politics.
The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
According to The Death of Hope, Straxus is Coordinator of the CIA.
Straxus dies, so probably chronologically later than the beginning of the War. Daleks and Time Lords are taking aggressive, temporal action against each other.
Narvin is "Coordinator in extremis" of the CIA.
Romana is no longer President, and Farina is the current CIA Coordinator. There are aliens in the Academy. The Doctor describes the current regime as "progressive." The current President is absent.
Set during the First Segment of the War.
The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, therefore the Time War is in its early days.
The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, but has cut his hair, placing it after The Forgotten.
The Doctor debates involving himself.
The Time War is ongoing.
The Time War is ongoing.
The Sisterhood of Karn is involved in the Time War.
Takes place 400 years after The Night of the Doctor.
Takes place at the Fall of Arcadia before the scenes in The Day of the Doctor.
Priyan tells Engin that Rassilon is initiating the Ultimate Sanction, placing it just before The End of Time.
Set on the last day of the Time War. Dalek saucers are already on Gallifrey, placing it after The Last Day.
The General mentions that Rassilon's plan has already failed. Gallifrey becomes lost in a pocket universe.

Postwar

Gallifrey is still outside the normal universe.
According to the Master, Gallifrey has returned to its traditional spacial coordinates.
Gallifrey is situated beyond the frontier in time.
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