1898

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

January

• 12 - Florence Sundvik dies. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

March

• 3 - Mary Eliza Millington is born, but dies four days later. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

May

• 12 - Actor Edmund Trevithick is born. (NA: Nightshade)

September

• 13 - Alice Guppy signs her Torchwood contract. (WEB: Torchwood website)
• 14 - Emily Holroyd collects Alice Guppy at the women's prison where she is being held as a thief. (WEB: Torchwood website)

Unknown date

• H.G. Wells publishes his novel The War of the Worlds, which would later be adapted by actor Orson Welles as a panic-inducing radio play (BFA: Invaders from Mars)

History of Doctor Who

July

• 18 - John Stuart, who had an uncredited role as a Didonian in DW: The Rescue, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1897

19th century 1890s

1899