1926

Events

The author of boys' stories for the Ensign magazine vanishes from his home in England, transported to the Land of Fiction, where he becomes the Master of the Land. He later returns after being freed by the Doctor ("The Mind Robber").
Marriage of Ann Talbot and Lord Charles Cranleigh, whom the Doctor met during Black Orchid. The Doctor attends the reception, at Cranleigh Hall in Oxfordshire. (MA:The Sands of Time)

The novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie, is published. The plot of this book would later form an unconscious template for the actions of a vespiform who encountered Christie and the Doctor later in the year. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
2 - The cargo ship SS Bernice sets sail from Bombay.
4 - The SS Bernice vanishes from the Indian Ocean, becoming an exhibit in Vorg's Mini-Scope, together with a plesiosaurus from 150 million years earlier ("Carnival of Monsters").

8 - The Doctor and Donna Noble meet Agatha Christie; she goes missing for the next ten days. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp, known history)
18 - Agatha Christie is found at a hotel in Harrogate. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp, known history)

14 - Alan Rowe, who played numerous memorable guest roles on Doctor Who, is born in Palmerston North, New Zealand.