1555

January

The sixth doctor arrives with Evelyn Smythe, a history lecturer from 2000, in pursuit of the source of a temporal nexus that is causing Smythe's family to disappear from the timestream. Posing as Queen Mary's physician, the doctor is able to discern that it is Smythe's own actions in encouraging an attempt on Mary 1st's life that are paradoxically causing the nexus. Averting these attempts - after a spell in the Tower of London - the TARDIS leaves Tudor England, with Mary praying for the doctor to return and the safe birth of an heir ... neither of which come to pass ... (BF:The Marian Conspiracy)

• Edward Kelley, close colleague of John Dee whose experiments in black magic will be a catalyst for the future events, is born in Worcester, England. (MA: Managra)

1554

16th century 1550s

1556