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Theory:Timeline - Daleks

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This page lists appearances of the Daleks - and their creator, Davros - in the order in which they experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Limiting factors

Daleks with cone-shaped ears are usually seen during or after the Last Great Time War, while Daleks with bulb-shaped ears are usually seen before.

Non-slatted Daleks are usually seen before TV: The Chase although the Daleks in TV: Genesis of the Daleks and TV: The Power of the Daleks are slatted and both take place before The Chase. These are the only exceptions to this rule as they cannot be set later in the timeline.

Any story where the Daleks have not developed space travel must take place before COMIC: Power Play.

Any story where the Daleks do not know that the Doctor is a Time Lord must take place before TV: Resurrection of the Daleks; this therefore includes TV: The Chase, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and TV The Evil fo the Daleks.

Any story where Skaro exists must take place before TV:Remembrance of the Daleks where it is destroyed, which is referenced in TV: Twice Upon a Time, AUDIO: Terror Firma and AUDIO: Daleks Among Us. Skaro is devastated, following the events of the Time War (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) and is restored by TV: The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar. "The Destroyer of Skaro" is a name for the Doctor recorded by the Testimony in the far future. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)

Any story featuring Davros with an intact wheelchair has to happen before COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! in which Abslom Daak chain swords his torso. Any story where Davros has an intact personality must take place prior to Terror Firma.

Dalek time travel is inconsistent. They have time machines in TV: The Chase, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and AUDIO: Daleks Among Us. Dalek time travel is "crude and nasty" in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks and their time travel technology can rival the Time Lords by the Gallifrey audio series, leading to the Last Great Time War.

However, Davros' personality is replaced by an Emperor Dalek in Terror Firma, setting it and Remembrance of the Daleks after the Time War, unless Davros was restored to his original personality during the Time War (which has never been stated in any story). Dalek time travel technology is clearly advanced in TV: The Magician's Apprentice, with Colony Sarff being sent to multiple points in time (including the end of the universe where the Sisterhood of Karn are). It is never stated that the Daleks or Davros have looked into their personal future.

Timeline

Creation

We Are the Daleks!

The Daleks are created from humans.

Genesis of the Daleks

Davros creates the Daleks.

Genesis of Evil and Space

The Daleks evolve from humanoids, as described in The Daleks.
In the default time period of Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, the Daleks haven't yet developed space travel.
The Daleks gain space travel.
The Daleks use transolar discs. They invade in 1903, so probably early in Dalek history as opposed to time travellers.
The Doctor says that the Daleks have garrisons on nearly every planet in the universe at this time (away from Earth's galaxy?). The Second Doctor is the Supreme Dalek's arch enemy.
Centuries after Genesis of Evil.
The Daleks elect to search for Earth.

The Dalek Occupation of the Solar System

The Daleks' invasion is initially repelled, but they vow to return.
The Daleks do not yet have time travel. They are ruled by the Golden Emperor. They have conflict with humanity, which is not confined to Earth. Therefore this has been placed during the First Dalek War, before the invasion of Earth.
The Daleks are attacking Earth colonies.
The invasion has begun; the Daleks also attack Mars.
Set during the occupation, though not for the future Daleks.
Set during the Occupation. The story is said to in 2163 but really has to be set in 2166 as this is a year before The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
The Daleks' Master Plan, GodEngine, Lucifer Rising and The Mutant Phase date the Dalek invasion to c. 2157. The TV story itself is set 10 years later. The Doctor believes that The Daleks is in the Daleks' future.
The Daleks are familiar with the Monk, but the Daleks are natives to this era except the Dalek Time Controller, who will have gave them the knowledge of the Monk. The Daleks invade Earth again in the 22nd century.
Possible anomaly, as it clashes with Lucie Miller and To the Death.
500 years after the Neutronic War, not the Thousand Year War, and generations before Planet of the Daleks. A Dalek with this design is featured in The Space Museum.
After the Daleks and 50 years after a Dalek War that humanity won.
Placed here on the assumption/conjecture that the museum Dalek is a relic of the occupation or from Skaro.

Early Time Travel

The Daleks have invaded Earth before, so after the The Dalek Invasion of Earth. They have "discovered the secret of time travel." They have had another go at the invasion. They know the Doctor but do not recognize his third incarnation.
The Daleks are non-slatted and can detect the Doctor's journey to Trodos, hinting at an understanding of time travel.
The Daleks have a dimensionally transcendental timeship but explicitly want revenge for The Dalek Invasion of Earth so cannot too long since that story. They are based on Skaro again and are now slatted.
Follows The Chase.

The Dalek Wars

Humanity has settled in the new Earth system for fifty years since 2380.
This occurs a generation after a Dalek War and the Daleks are less advanced than the ones in Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks. They know who the Third Doctor is and know about the Tardis. According to PROSE: The Colony of Lies, a Dalek war breaks out in 2459.
The Daleks attack.
Follows Frontier in Space.
Daleks and humans are at war with one another.
Set during the Dalek Wars.
Set during the Dalek Wars.
Set during the Earth Empire's war with the Daleks and features the bronze Daleks, so they are not confined to Time War related stories.
Towards the end of the war.

Aftermath of the Wars

Set in the 45th century, but these Daleks have been in cryogenic suspension for 17 centuries.
These Daleks have travelled back in time to destroy humanity before the Dalek Wars. They refer to the "Dalek Empire" and have high-functioning Robomen.
Sara Kingdom is alive.
Sara Kingdom is alive.
Sara dies. The Daleks have time machines. The Daleks are unaware of the Time Lords.
The Daleks are developing time travel. Skaro exists. The Daleks are unaware of the Time Lords.
Set an unspecified amount of time after Evil. The Doctor discovers the Daleks did not meet their final end and the Emperor rules the Daleks again.
After The Daleks' Master Plan.
The Daleks infected with the human factor hide on the planet Kyrol.
Humanity at this point has encountered the Daleks before, but these humans are unfamiliar with them.
The Daleks have a crystal-based command network.

Return of Davros

Set in the past according to the Doctor. Steven Moffat confirmed that the Movellans are more human than the ones in Destiny of the Daleks, placing it before that story.[source needed] Bronze Daleks are fighting the war.
Set during the War.
These Daleks crashed on their way back to Skaro from the invasion of Kantra, which was mentioned in Destiny.
"Thousands of years" after the Daleks were created, Davros is awakened and later put in suspended animation. Neverland mentions the year 4949 in relation to the Dalek-Movellan War as recorded in the Matrix on Gallifrey.
90 years after the events of Destiny, Davros is taken out of suspended animation to cure the Movellan virus. The Daleks know of the Time Lords, setting this after The Daleks' Master Plan and Evil of the Daleks.
Between Resurrection and Revelation. TransAllied, Inc was formed back in the 38th century.
Occur during flight from Necros.
Davros crashes on Lethe but is recovered by the (Renegade) Dalek Supreme.
The Daleks do not recognise the Seventh Doctor. They are Imperial Daleks on the cover. The Emperor is not Davros and appears to be the one from Evil of the Daleks. The Dalek tower is probably the one from Asylum of the Daleks.

Empire and Emperor

Set in the 53rd century.
Lee Sullivan's artwork depicts the Golden Emperor. A Special Weapons Dalek appears. Skaro exists. It is 3000 years after the 26th century according to AUDIO: The Judas Gift, which is Bev Tarrant's native time.
The Daleks have dimensionally transcendental timeships and a crystal-based command network. They invade Gallifrey, presumably ending their peace.
The Daleks are ruled by a Dalek Emperor - depicted on an unused cover as the Golden Emperor.
The Daleks now have their own equivalent of the Eye of Harmony.
Attack takes place during this story
Takes place during the Daleks' initial invasion.
Takes place during Alby Brook's search for Susan Mendes.
The Dalek Empire is apparently all but destroyed but Dalek Empire III reveals that they survived.

Dalek Supreme

The Daleks are rebuilding. [elaborate?]
Two thousand years after the War in Dalek Empire I and II. The Daleks are ruled by a Dalek Supreme.

Cold War with the Time Lords

The Dalek Time Controller and Time Lords are using temporal technology against each other. No higher-ranking Daleks appear.
The Time Controller's faction conquers Earth in the 20th century.
The Daleks are ruled by a Supreme Dalek.
The Daleks are acting against Gallifrey. They are invading other timelines. They are depicted with cone-shaped ears. They refer to their alliance with Irving Braxiatel in Death and the Daleks. They remember Romana II from The Apocalypse Element and say she has shown the Daleks mercy before (The Time of the Daleks).

Last Great Time War

Skaro's history has been time locked to prevent further interference in their timeline.
The Gallifreyan city of Arcadia falls to the Daleks.
Set shortly after Arcadia has fallen. The War Doctor survives the Last Great Time War, and with the help of his other twelve incarnations, destroys the fleet of Daleks concentrating fire on Gallifrey on the final day of the Time War.

After the Time War

At some point, four separate groups of Daleks survive the Time War independently. Three of the four are effective dead-ends of the timeline.
Two separate lone Daleks survive the Time War by becoming stuck on Earth.
A group of Daleks survives the Time War.
The Dalek Emperor survives the Time War and ends up in the Sol system circa the year 199,900.
The Cult of Skaro and many prisoners within the Genesis Ark, who escaped into the Void. At the end of Doomsday, the Cult emergency temporal shift, leading into further stories. Tardisode 13 is set during the Battle of Canary Wharf.
Skaro is referenced as being destroyed in The Time War.
The Cult has recently escaped Canary Wharf. At the end of Evolution of the Daleks, Dalek Caan again temporal shifts into the Time War.
Caan is an insane oracle after rescuing Davros from the Time War.
The Dalek appearing in Adelaide's flashback is from when the 26 planets appeared in the Earth's sky.
Continues The Beast Below's cliffhanger. Surviving Daleks, seemingly made from Davros' cells from The Stolen Earth / Journey's End, awake the New Dalek Paradigm.
The Dalek is described as bronze, and depicted as a Time War-era Dalek on the cover.
A lone Dalek, one of a new "elite" breed of Kaled mutant, is found by UNIT after crashing to Earth. Its casing, seen on the cover, is a weathered bronze design.
The Daleks' memories of the Doctor are wiped by Oswin Oswald. Skaro is in ruins and has been abandoned. The Prime Minister rules the Daleks.
During the Siege of Trenzalore, the Daleks regain their memories of the Doctor through Tasha Lem.
The Dalek Time Controller is in its home time period. The Daleks know the Doctor. The New Dalek Paradigm is referenced. Dalek puppets appear.
The Controller is sent back through Dalek history, to Lucie Miller. Artwork depicts the Daleks with bulb-shaped ears.
Daleks and humans are at war with one another. The Dalek command net has records of the Daleks' post-Time War history. The Twelfth Doctor meets a "good Dalek" who he calls Rusty.
Davros 'should have been dust centuries ago'.
Davros says that he and the Daleks rebuilt Skaro. Classic Daleks are present. In old footage of Davros's and the Doctor's battles, Remembrance and Stolen Earth are shown, but Davros is still in his wheelchair and without Emperor casing.
Davros is leading a force of Imperial Daleks. His skirt matches that of a Dalek.He has not adapted to his Emperor casing. These Daleks lose their memories at the end of this story, perhaps explaining why Davros is on trial in the next story.
Leads into Remembrance, Davros' torso is cut, leading to the last vestage of his humanoid form in "Remembrance".
An Imperial Dalek is in 1963, just before Remembrance.
The Doctor rhetorically states that the Supreme Dalek is a "thousand years" from Skaro. The Doctor is remembered as the "Destroyer of Skaro" in Twice Upon a Time by Testimony.

Aftermath of Skaro's destruction and Davros' fate.

Follows Remembrance. Skaro survives according to the Dalek Prime but his plan appears unlikely and there are alternate possibilities to Skaro's fate. The factory ship is the same one from TV: Power of the Daleks.
The Doctor throws the capsule back through the vortex to Vulcan c. 1820 in War of the Daleks. The Daleks recognize the Second Doctor. Their capsule is bigger on inside, hinting that time travel maybe involved. The humans are unfamiliar with Daleks. The trailer states that this story takes place in 2020. The Daleks are powered by static, probably due to limited resource after being trapped on Vulcan for 200 years.
Davros believes Skaro has been destroyed. Davros survives, and his personality is intact The Daleks have time machines and have spread across the universe.
Davros's escape pod enters the time vortex after the explosion of his mothership but his memory is unstable so his memories are probably scrambled, allowing him to forget the previous two stories. He believes skaro has been destroyed and his personality is subsumed by that of the Dalek Emperor. He is more unstable than in War of the Daleks or Daleks Among Us and this appears to mark the end of his original personality.
The Daleks recognise Charley Pollard from Terror Firma.
Billions of years after Into the Dalek, the Twelfth Doctor catches up with Rusty who is living in seclusion from the rest of his kind on Villengard.

Unplaced

The Daleks and Time Lords make a treaty.
The Daleks execute the Master, and allow his remains to be sent to Gallifrey.
Not long after the Second Dalek War in real time. The Daleks aren't native to this time, and their involvement changes history. Benny is familiar with the Dalek-Movellan war - but this must be down to her time travel experience.
The Dalek Prime is not the same as the one from War, as one of the Time travelling sequences features an era before The prime was created.

The one from War comes from the beginning of Dalek history.

The Dalek timeship is dimensionally transcendental, sentient, and somewhat humanoid.
The Dalek is described as gunmetal grey.

A Dalek is shown fleeing another dimension.

likely contemporary to The Five Doctors.

aHistory Timeline

This pre-Time War timeline is from the third edition of aHistory. Most of the dates given here are speculative.

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