Another Ice Age affects Earth during this time. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, PDA: Emotional Chemistry). Earth began to be abandoned by the rich and powerful as the sun goes nova. Those left behind have fractured into millions of nation-states who warring through the ether in the Transmat Wars. (DWM: The Keep). About the year 5000 the planet is organised into "Alliances"
By this time humanity first started to develop time travel. The Supreme Alliance, at the initiative of it's minister of justice Magnus Greel, developed time travel a method based on Double nexus particles and zygma beam, but this proved to be a cull de sac of which nothing good came. Magnus Greel was the first person to travel trough time, but became horribly disfigured for it. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
- nonetheless, the problems with time travel as seen in Talons seem to have been solved by the time the time agency was established.
The Time Agency operated out of this century. However, it is closed down again in same century, and only two agents were left. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Empty Child, TW: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
The doctor called this era a scientific dark age.
Major Events
- Early 51st century - The Icelandic Alliance fell and the Supreme Alliance, of whom Magnus Greel was Minister of Justice, rose in its stead. The Supreme Alliance committed a number of war crimes and was brought down by the Filipino Army at the Battle of Reykjavik, which the Doctor witnessed. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
Minor Events
- 5000: The Swarm infects the Bi-Al Foundation. (DW: The Invisible Enemy)
- unknown : The weapons factories of Villengard is destroyed by the Doctor and is replaced by a banana grove (DW:The Doctor Dances)
- 'unknown - Clockwork Droids set up the spaceship SS Madame De Pompadour and kidnapping her from the 18th century (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace)
Notable individuals
- Jack Harkness, John Hart, Gray, Magnus Greel and K-9 Mark I all came from this century.
Decades
| 50th Century | Timeline | 52nd Century |