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This page lists the order of stories in the Doctor Who Universe timeline from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899. (For the purposes of this timeline, 1800 will be considered part of the 19th century given the "Year 0" discrepancy.) This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.
The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, and LegoK9's timeline. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.
Timeline rules:
- Only list stories. References to dates that the story does not take place in are to be excluded.
- Stories without any clear indication of an era should be omitted. (e.g. TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
- Many stories will contradict each other, so these contradictions should be noted but treated equally. (e.g. TV: The Enemy of the World and other stories set in 2018)
- Direct quotes indicating the time period the story takes place should be provided. (Quotes sourced from another story should indicate the story it is from.)
Format (list all available):
- Day Month Year - MEDIUM: Story title
- CHARACTER/TEXT/NOTE: Indication of time period
Timeline
- Previous page: Universe Timeline - 18th century
1800s
- POLLY: This is the Battle of Trafalgar, I'm sure of it. I remember it from school. October twenty-first, 1805.
- DOCTOR: Not in the year 1806. George the Third is on the throne, William Pitt is Prime Minister, and ladies fight with witticisms and the occasional fan. Not with edged weapons.
1810s
- 4 - 5 February 1814 - TV: Thin Ice
- DOCTOR: Our London. We're on the Thames. The last great Frost Fair. 1814, February the fourth.
- THE DOCTOR: Mm. Eighteen Eighteen. A time of hope, and a long way from our other port of call. Ready?
1820s
- PERI: I could have been stuck in the eighteen hundreds forever.
- SOURCE?
- TEXT: Madhya Province, India. 1825
- CAPTION: The Irish Sea, 1826.
- HANS: Eighteen Twenty-Seven, actually. Look, who are you?
- FRAU TOD: It was supposed to be a surprise. Hans is spending the Christmas holidays with us.
1830s
- TEXT: Scotland. 1830
- TEXT: In the winter of 1832, the Seminole marched west.
- DOCTOR (The Dead Shoes): First the tea, and when it's ready I'll you about 1832 and the circus of doom.
- DOCTOR: Ah, 1833! You see Romana? 1833!
- JOSIE: I think Captain Finlay said it was 1833.
1840s
- Winter 1842 - TV: The Snowmen
- England, 1842.
- DOCTOR: Well done Tegan. That's why I've brought you here on this precise day, the 23rd of October, 1843.
- TEXT: Derbyshire, 1845
- ALBERT: The year was 1847, and I was being borne by royal carriage across the Murgin Pass, a journey already perilous enough.
1850s
1850
- Newstead Avenue, Nottinghamshire, 1850.
1851
- DOCTOR: The Crystal Palace, Charley. Or what came to be known as the Crystal Palace. Designed by Joseph Paxton to house the great exhibition of the wo-
- CHARLEY: works of all nations, Hyde Park, London, 1851.
- CHARLEY: Oh, it's the middle of summer, and I'm baking hot!
- DOCTOR: We're too early, what year is this?
- NYSSA: 1851.
- NATHANIEL: Why, you are in London, on the twelfth of September, year of our lord eighteen hundred and fifty-one!
- BOY: Christmas Eve, sir. Year of our Lord 1851, sir.
1853
- TEXT: October 1853, Strines.
1854
- TEXT: January 1854, Strines.
- DOCTOR: The year is eighteen fifty-four, and please, try not to reveal to Faraday your knowledge of the future.
- DOCTOR: This is it Ace! The port of Sebastopol, on the night of September the 25th, 1854.
- DOCTOR: A hypersonic pulse eminating from the area of Turkey, at 10:14 PM, on the 19th of November, 1854.
1855
- CAPTION: The journal of Doctor Thomas Gideon, Oct. 13th 1855.
1856
- BREWSTER: Then one night, one icey black night, after I'd been there five years or so, that's when it happened. [5 years from 1851]
1858
- BREWSTER: Another year passed, and another. And every few months, I would have the dream again.
1859
- K9: The year is 1859, master.
- K9: November the 15th.
1860s
1861
- DOCTOR: You saw that newspaper in the village pub, this is 1861. We need to get acclimatised.
- ALADDIN: Is it still 1861?
- DOCTOR: Yes, and yes!
- You have been with us now, boy, for ten years. It is time for you to go forward into the world. [10 years from 1851]
1862
- 1862 - COMIC: Nurse Who?
- DOCTOR: The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. This is how you fulfil your dream, Elizabeth. [Real world year.]
1864
- WILTON: Petersburg was 1864.
- WILTON: Battle of Elliot Salient, Petersburg, Virginia. Mineshaft under the confederate lines, the fuse was lit on the morning of July the 30th at 3:15am. Your friend Nyssa'a on Elliot Salient! It says here the federal forces blow up Elliot Salient. They list the fuse 30 seconds ago!
1865
- DOCTOR: And the year.. 1865. Ring any bells?
- FORD: Oh, sure, sure, sure. It's April 14th.
- BREWSTER: When you were in the shop with Creek, I was in the back room. Not me now, but 2 years since. [2 years before 1867]
1866
- QUOTE?
- SHUGGY (in 1916): What do you think I've been doing for the last fifty years?
- IRENE: And the Battle of Ridgeway, a century and a half from now [1711].
- NOTE: Real world year.
- TO-DO LIST (The Pictures of Josephine Day): Philippot’s Magisterial Delights, Theater Royal, Edinburgh, 6th October, 1866.
1867
- TEXT: AD1867, Scotland
- NYSSA: The year is 1867?
- HARTWRIGHT: November the 14th, about half past 5 O'clock by the bells.
1868
- NYSSA (Time Reef): Doctor, Thomas may have left us for five months... [five months since The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (1867)]
- BRENDA: It's unbe-blooming-lievable. You've been gone all of six weeks!
- TEXT: The Royal College of Surgeons. London, England. 1868
- DOCTOR: --And the year is 1868.
- TEXT: Coutts Bank, The Strand, London, February 1868
1869
- DOCTOR: I did it. Give the man a medal. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860. ... It's not 1860, it's 1869.
1870s
1870
- Assuming no time travel was involved.
- ISAAC: Them being scared scares me. War only ended five years back. That old violence is still under the surface.
1872
- IAN: Really? I haven't seen the joke yet, I must say. One thing I did see, by the way. The name of that ship we were on: The Mary Celeste.
- 187X - AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
- DOCTOR: The American frontier in the 1870s, within the reach of our assassin.
1878
- JOHN: There was Deadwood, 1878...
1879
- NEWSPAPER: 28th December, 1879.
- DOCTOR: 1879. Same difference
- RACHEL (New Girl): On the 31st of December 1879, Queen Victoria issued a charter creating the Torchwood Institute.
1880s
1880
- CAPTION: The Tardis materialises on the bank of the river Nile during the year 1880, in the middle of a game of cricket being played by British soldiers stationed in Egypt...
- TEXT: In the spring of 1880, in a land that would someday be called Oklahoma...
1881
- DOCTOR: Mars. 1881, or thereabouts. According to the Tardis, that's when the message was made.
- NOTE: The historical gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- DOCTOR (The Magic Mousetrap): I never read the Tattler unless I'm at the dentist. And I've not been to the dentist since eighteen eighty-one.
1882
- CAPTION: Deadwood, Dakota Territory. March 1882.
- TEXT: London, 1882, was very different from the world in which I grew to maturity.
- TEXT: 25 January 1883. 21:10.
1883
- 1883 - TV: Ghost Light
- DOCTOR: This is Inspector MacKenzie from Scotland Yard. He was sent here in 1881 to investigate the disappearance of the owner, Sir George Pritchard.
- ACE: But that was two years ago.
1884
- BURROWS: Ladies and gentlemen in the public gallery. Gentlemen of the jury. This court is now in session, convened on this 19th day of May, 1884.
1885
- DOCTOR: 1179 AD. Add a time deflection coefficient of seven hundred and six years, that is 1885 AD.
- CLEMENCY: It was forty years ago, in the heat of Delhi, late one night. I was alone, and that's when I saw it. I loved him so much, it didn't matter. But he was stolen from me. 1885, the year of the great monsoon.
- NARRATOR: On a shiny, flashing surface he saw the date: 15th of September, 1885. That, at least, was recognisable.
1886
- TEXT: The Pacific Ocean, 1886.
1887
- TEXT: London, 1887
1888
- TEXT: London, 1888 A.D.
1889
- CAPTION: London, 1889.
- NOTE: The ending recreates the the Fourth Doctor and Leela's entrance in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
- c. 1889 - TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
- CASEY: Oh, it says in the paper how it could be jollyJack at work again.
- NOTE: Jack the Ripper's 5 canonical killings were between August and November of 1888.
1890s
- Late 18XX - AUDIO: A Spoonful of Mayhem
- MISSY: ...And now here I stick, exiled to 19th century Earth like some common time urchin.
- MISSY: It's a Layline, Oliver, and we're activating it
- MISSY: Acch, look it up in about 30 years. [ley lines were coined in 1921]
1890
- BLACK: Well, in that case, probably somewhere between the first and third of June. 1890. Less than a year before, before he killed himself.
- TEXT: France 1890
- DOCTOR: 26th of June, 1890. The recently opened Savoy Hotel.
- NOTE: Real word date. Vincent shoots himself in a field.
1892
- The date Edvard Munch wrote about seeing the sky turn blood red, as mentioned by characters in the opening.
- TEXT: Five Points District, New York City. 1892.
- Before 25 December 1892 - WC: Vastra Investigates
- JENNY: Well, it is nearly Christmas.
- c. 25 December 1892 - TV: The Great Detective
- JENNY: Merry Christmas!
- 24 - 25 December 1892 - TV: The Snowmen
- TOMBSTONE: Clara Oswin Oswald. Remember me, we shall meet again. Born November 23 1866, died December 24, 1892.
1893
- 1893 - AUDIO: Tangled Web
- DOCTOR: This is Ireland, 1893.
- DOCTOR: Okay, so. Not London 1893. Yorkshire 1893. Near enough.
- TEXT: London 1893 - prison cell
- c. 1893 - TV: Deep Breath
1894
- DOCTOR (The Relics of Time): Paris 1894, that's our next stop.
- c.1894 - AUDIO: The Cars That Ate London!
- c.1894 - AUDIO: A Photograph to Remember
- September 1894 - AUDIO: The Ghosts of Greenwich
- PLUMSTEAD: I've absorbed approximately forty-two years from his future timeline.
- STRAX: You mean, I'm nearly sixty? [Meaning Strax is nearly 18]
- STRAX (A Good Man Goes to War): It's all right. I've had a good life. I'm nearly twelve. [set in 1888]
- VASTRA: About three weeks ago.
- VASTRA: September 3rd; a sighting of a spectral agency in southeast London
1896
- TEXT: 18 Causeyside Street, Paisley, Scotland, 1896.
- TEXT: San Francisco 1896.
1898
- LUCIE: Yeah, yeah. It's 1898 and the consequences for the timeline could be disasterous.
1899
- GIRL: He's coming, the one you're looking for. But the century will turn twice before you find each other again.
- JACK: Ooo. Are you for real? You mean I have to wait a hundred years to find him? What'll I do in the meantime?
- c. 1899 - AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar
- DOCTOR: ...that business with Greel, over 10 years ago!
- NOTE: referring to the events of The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
- NYSSA: Boxing day, you said. It sounds utterly barbaric.
- NYSSA: Well, I did and I didn't, but 1899 is too primitive for me.
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