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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.