1918

In 1918, World War I, a multinational conflict on Earth triggered by Nemesis in 1914, (DW: Silver Nemesis) effectively ended with a ceasefire. (Known history)

The Eighth Doctor visited the North Yorkshire village of Hawkswick in 1918. On 19 March, John Sykes was murdered. (EDA: Casualties of War)

Gerald Carter and Harriet Derbyshire investigated a temporal phenomenon for Torchwood Three in Cardiff. A future version of Tommy Brockless told them to freeze his present self in the hospital to be awakened later. The future Tommy, his mind in shell shock, returned to this time not long after, with Toshiko Sato reminding him from 2008 to turn the "rift key" he had been given to stop the two time zones from collapsing on one another. (TW: To the Last Man)

Behind the scenes

February

• 9 - Morris Barry was born.
• 23 - Bill Strutton was born.

March

• 1 - Roger Delgado, the first actor to portray the Master, was born in London.
• 23 - Anthony Jacobs was born.

July

• 7 - Brenda Bruce was born.

August

• 14 - Patsy Smart was born.
• 27 - Norman Mitchell, who played one of the policemen in DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

• 28 - Tutte Lemkow, who played Kuiju in DW: Marco Polo, Ibrahim in DW: The Crusade and Cyclops in DW: The Myth Makers, was born in Oslo, Norway.

October

• 20 - Anton Diffring was born.

November

• 5 - Alan Tilvern, who played Forester in DW: Planet of Giants, was born in London.
• 11 - Stubby Kaye was born.
• 27 - Peter Tuddenham was born.