Theory:Timeline - Time Lords

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This page lists appearances of Time Lords other than the Doctor and the Master (unless one of them is on official business) in chronological order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed as much as possible, but still with exceptions, that Time Lords meet in the same order. These cases will be noted. In many cases, there are sequences of stories from different Time Lords' perspectives, where individual stories cannot be compared.

Limiting factors

Looms

Any story where looms are the dominant method of reproduction on Gallifrey must take place before PROSE: Lungbarrow.

President

Any story involving Romana as president must take place after PROSE: Happy Endings and before AUDIO: Enemy Lines.

Series basics

Time Lord stories can very roughly be sorted based on medium / series

  • Doctor Who stories set on Gallifrey
  • Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords
  • Non-Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords.
  • Big Finish Gallifrey audio stories

Timeline

Old Time

There's an early unmanned Gallifreyan time probe.
Rassilon overthrows the Pythia.
The Rassilon Era begins with Year Zero.
The Time Lords create the Web of Time, which brings logic and order to the universe.
The anchoring of the thread.
The Time Lords fight the Yssgaroth.
  • PROSE: Entertaining Mr. O
Iris Wildthyme, in several incarnations, is summoned to the Death Zone to deal with Morbius.
Thessalia remembers the Imperator's rise.
Describes the fall of the Imperator.

The Doctor's Era

The First Doctor

One version of the Doctor's departure.
Another version.

The Second Doctor

The Second Doctor forces himself to regenerate into a female incarnation. Eventually, the Time Lords catch up to her. Her existence is undone, with the new timeline's Second Doctor being put on trial rather than escaping.
The Doctor becomes a CIA agent.
Jamie gets his first look at the Stattenheim remote control, so this is between World Game and The Two Doctors.

The Third Doctor

The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
Just after The Three Doctors, synchronously with the Third Doctor.
Braxiatel has just returned from some ambassadorial missions.

The Fourth Doctor

The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
Leela and K9 Mark I stay on Gallifrey.
K9 Mark I is working for the Time Lords.

The Fifth Doctor

Leela has already married.

The Sixth Doctor

Set during the trial.
If the Eighth Doctor hadn't shown up, this would've occurred.

The Seventh Doctor

Ace is not allowed into the Academy.
Romana returns from E-Space.
Ruatha deliberately asynchronously involves the Fifth Doctor. She states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.
Flavia is President.
Romana becomes President.
Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor is the wrong incarnation, and Romana comments on it. Gallifreyan security systems are changed to require a human retinal scan. The Lord President has come back into office after Romana went missing.

The Eighth Doctor

The Eye of Harmony needs a human retina to open.
Rassilon inhabits the Matrix.
Hallan and Darkel are around.
Vansell dies.
Rassilon escapes the Matrix.
Leela is no longer pregnant. Narvin is the new head of the CIA.
Later Graceless stories establish that Amy attends the Academy under Valyes.
Ace, an alien, is allowed into the Academy.

War in Heaven

Main article: Theory:Timeline - The War
Pre-divergence scenes and flashbacks to Romana III's world.
Romana II regenerates into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War.

The War King's Gallifrey

Romana has long since disappeared to another of the nine Gallifreys. The Master returns and becomes the Magistrate. Umbaste is president.
The War begins in the Cataclysm.
The Second Wave is devastating Faction Paradox (6th year of the War)
The Fourth Wave (y17) exists. The Eleven-Day Empire is still intact.
46th year of the War.
Scarratt recalls the war between alternate Romes and alternate Germanys.
Arbitrary positioning. The War is ongoing, the Faction exists enough to care about, Cwejen are in use. Straxus isn't dead, tentatively placing the War before Dark Eyes.
Arbitrary positioning. A humanoid timeship appears.
Arbitrary positioning. Lolita is spending time on Gallifrey; she has her baby with her.
50th year of the War. Mictlan still exists. Justine is being moved from Dronid to Earth.
Justine fails her first mission.
House Tracolix and House Lolita destroy the Eleven-Day Empire.
Justine is tried and convicted for the Grandfather's crimes.
Justine escapes from the prison-planet.
Mictlan is destroyed. The War King is still alive.
Justine is still trying to reestablish the Faction in the 1780s.
The War King is killed and Lolita becomes Lord President.
Horus invades Gallifrey with his Osirian army. He says Lolita won't be a concern anymore.

Romana's Gallifrey

Romana III is unwittingly transferred to the ninth Gallifrey.
Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns.
Ace/Narvin post-Intervention Earth execution scene.
Romana's Gallifrey is destroyed. The Eleven-Day Empire still exists.

Post-War Universe

The War is over.
The Doctor emerges from his 100-year exile on Earth.
The Doctor sees Gallifrey in the Kingdom of Beasts.
There are very few Time Lords left, and their role in reality is being replaced.
The Doctor is planning to restore Gallifrey.
In the far future, the last surviving Time Lord (implied to be the Doctor) ruled the universe from the Needle.

Last Great Time War

Main article: Theory:Timeline - Last Great Time War
Pre-divergence scenes and last timeline. Romana II steps down from the Presidency.
Lucie Miller is deposited in the Doctor's TARDIS.
The Sisterhood of Karn starts to become involved in politics.
The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.
According to The Death of Hope, Straxus is Coordinator of the CIA.
Straxus dies, so probably chronologically later than the beginning of the War. Daleks and Time Lords are taking aggressive, temporal action against each other.
Narvin is "Coordinator in extremis" of the CIA.
Romana is no longer President, and Farina is the current CIA Coordinator. There are aliens in the Academy. The Doctor describes the current regime as "progressive." The current President is absent.
Padrac is President.
Livia is President and declares the start of the Time War. Romana is the current coordinator of the CIA.
Set during the First Segment of the War.
The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, therefore the Time War is in its early days.
The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, but has cut his hair, placing it after The Forgotten.
The Doctor debates involving himself.
The Time War is ongoing.
The Time War is ongoing.
The Sisterhood of Karn is involved in the Time War, enabling a dying Doctor to regenerate into a warrior.
Takes place 400 years after The Night of the Doctor.
Takes place at the Fall of Arcadia before the scenes in The Day of the Doctor.
Priyan tells Engin that Rassilon is initiating the Ultimate Sanction, placing it just before The End of Time.
Set on the last day of the Time War. Dalek saucers are already on Gallifrey, placing it after The Last Day.
The General mentions that Rassilon's plan has already failed. Gallifrey becomes lost in a pocket universe.
Gallifrey is still outside the normal universe.

Resurrected

According to the Master, Gallifrey has returned to its traditional spacial coordinates.
Gallifrey is situated beyond the frontier in time.
General Kenossium is in her Hell Bent incarnation.
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