2012
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2012 was a year.
Events
Dated
January - May
According to the Eleventh Doctor, in January, Earth was invaded by tiny horses from outer space. They were so small that nobody but the Doctor noticed them. The Doctor gave them some tiny sugar lumps, after which they went home happy.
For reasons that scientists could not explain, the entire month of February smelled faintly of blackcurrant - except for Doncaster, where everything turned a "lovely shade of orange".
In March, a meteor in the exact shape of Dermot O'Leary's face came dangerously close to Earth, but it burned up in the atmosphere until it was no bigger than a pea that looked like Davina McCall.
April looked to be "the most uneventful month in recorded history" until a talking dog predicted the end of the world would occur in May. (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
On 11 May, the movie Dark Shadows came out. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan [+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"])
On 25 May, the SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with Earth's International Space Station. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])
Overall, May turned out to be a normal month for humanity, except for the sudden abundance of talking dogs. (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
June - September
On 11 June, a Dalek fleet landed at the CERN nuclear laboratory in Switzerland. Before the Doctor could intervene, the scientists accidentally created a black hole that swallowed the Daleks, as well as half of France. A passing talking dog reportedly said "told you so". (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
In July, the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Compassion visited Wiltshire, England. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"])
On 27 July, the 2012 Olympics opened in London during a period of unseasonably cold weather in the city, caused by an Isolus pod draining all the nearby heat. The Tenth Doctor, his TARDIS and people inside the Olympic Stadium were all among those placed inside drawings made by Chloe Webber, aided by an Isolus to give the stranded Isolus a family. Digging up the pod, Rose Tyler threw it into the Olympic Flame to heat it up, resulting in the Isolus releasing those it had kidnapped. Due to an injured runner during the torch relay route, the Olympic Flame was lit at the opening ceremonies by the Doctor, who appeared on international television. The morale of the Games allowed the Isolus to fly home. Afterward, the Doctor and Rose attended a neighbourhood celebration in London. By this time, the Torchwood Institute seemed to have been relatively well-known, enough that the Battle of Canary Wharf of several years earlier was now known as the "Battle of Torchwood". (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"])
The Fifth Doctor attempted to take Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka to the 2012 Olympics but the TARDIS instead materialised in London in 1982. (AUDIO: The King of the Dead [+]Loading...["The King of the Dead (audio story)"])
Somewhere around the same time, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond met an athlete who was on the run from a Weeping Angel who was trying to steal the Olympic Flame in order to ruin the spirit of the Olympics, and ended up in the TARDIS. The Angel took the torch with the flame, but the Doctor destroyed the Angel with his screwdriver and received a gold medal for saving the Olympics. (TV: Good as Gold [+]Loading...["Good as Gold (TV story)"])
At the end of July, an outbreak of man-eating toasters occurred. (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
Shortly after the Olympics, (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"]) the Year of the Slow Invasion began. (TV: The Power of Three [+]Loading...["The Power of Three (TV story)"])
By August, the latest fashion involved clothes made of fish, which started when Lady Gaga accidentally spilled a tuna sandwich all down her front.
In September, something "so brilliantly amazing" and "amazingly brilliant" happened, as claimed by the Eleventh Doctor, one's head would "literally explode" if they found out what it was. (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
Rory was sent back in time by the Weeping Angels to New York City in 1938. After creating a paradox that destroyed the "battery farm" Winter Quay that year, he was sent back in time again from 2012 by a survivor of that event. Amy allowed the Angel to send her to Rory, and they "lived to death" together, forever separated from the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan [+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"])
October - December
In October a "timey-wimey catastrophe" involving the Silence and an angry badger caused a whole week to go missing. It was eventually found in North Wales, where the one man who lived through it described it as "rainy". (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
In Utah, in an underground facility called the Vault, the "last Dalek", nicknamed the Metaltron by its billionaire collector, Henry van Statten, used the DNA of the time traveller, Rose Tyler, to recover itself. Not having any orders from above, it killed most of the base, but hesitated once it approached Rose. Believing the humanity Rose had given it was "sickness", it allowed itself to be destroyed. Afterward, Adam Mitchell accepted an invitation to join the Ninth Doctor and Rose on their travels. Van Statten was stripped of his power and was ordered to have his memory erased. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"]) At some point after this incident, the Vault was sealed and a BBC Radio documentary crew did an investigative report on the creatures known as Daleks. (AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests [+]Loading...["The Dalek Conquests (audio story)"])
According to some accounts, the Van Statten Incident occurred in a timeline where the Battle of Canary Wharf and the Planetary Relocation Incident had not occurred, as they had not yet occurred in the personal timelines of the Doctor and the Daleks. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...["The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"])
- As the 2012 US election is referenced as having not happened yet, this means these events occurred prior to November.
The United States held its presidential election. Earlier in the year, Diana Goddard suggested that the Democratic candidate would win, indicating that she found Democrats "funny". (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])
The Ninth Doctor returned Adam Mitchell to his own time zone after expelling him from the TARDIS for sending information about future technology to his home era; Adam immediately caused a panic in his household when an advanced biochip implant from the year 200,000 was revealed in his forehead. (TV: The Long Game [+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"])
November also saw the emergence of large alien sea monsters who came to Earth for a holiday. Humans were warned not to go swimming at this time, as they looked exactly like the monsters' favourite kind of Marmite-flavoured chewing gum. (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])
In December, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited Papua New Guinea, where they discovered a crashed spaceship. (PROSE: Conscription [+]Loading...["Conscription (short story)"])
Undated
The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble arrived in Hollywood and discovered alien entity Miss Hubble, who spent months draining the lifeforce out of everyone in Hollywood. The Doctor defeated Miss Hubble and made sure that Hollywood returned to its normal timelines. (COMIC: Nightmare on the Boulevard [+]Loading...["Nightmare on the Boulevard (comic story)"])
A Cyberman Factory Ship landed in London and quickly began a takeover, powered by a fragment of an Eternity Clock. The Eleventh Doctor and River Song worked together to shut down the Cyber Factory and destroy the Cybermen. When they later travelled to the year 2106, the remains of the Cyber Factory could still be seen. (GAME: The Eternity Clock [+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])
A Cyberman invasion that took place in 2012 was one of the events that inspired Sonny Robinson to create the comic Time Surgeon, which began publication that same year. (COMIC: Invasion of the Mindmorphs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Mindmorphs (comic story)"])
The Doctor visited 2012 on at least one occasion during or prior to his sixth incarnation. (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man [+]Loading...["The Raincloud Man (audio story)"])
Lord Barset led an expedition to Antarctica in the Fortitude, where they discovered Ice Warriors. (AUDIO: Frozen Time [+]Loading...["Frozen Time (audio story)"])
The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry Sullivan visited Prague. The Doctor took part in a cooking contest against Drakos. (PROSE: The Dragons of Prague [+]Loading...["The Dragons of Prague (short story)"])
Peter Hinton's The Greeks had a Play about It was published. (PROSE: Theatre of War [+]Loading...["Theatre of War (novel)"])
Flip Jackson and Jared Ramon were married in London. (AUDIO: Quicksilver [+]Loading...["Quicksilver (audio story)"]) The Sixth Doctor was invited to attend but did not. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin [+]Loading...["The Widow's Assassin (audio story)"], Quicksilver [+]Loading...["Quicksilver (audio story)"]) During the reception, Flip was taken to Vienna in 1948 by means of a time scoop. (AUDIO: Quicksilver [+]Loading...["Quicksilver (audio story)"])
Carlos Esteban left 2012 with Iris Wildthyme to go on an adventure in 4281. (PROSE: Iris at the V&A [+]Loading...["Iris at the V&A (short story)"])
Births and deaths
In a universe where Melanie Bush never met the Sixth Doctor, Mel died of a brain tumour brought on by mobile phone radiation. (AUDIO: He Jests at Scars... [+]Loading...["He Jests at Scars... (audio story)"])
Alistair Gryffen was born in Canada. (TV: Taphony and the Time Loop [+]Loading...["Taphony and the Time Loop (TV story)"])
Janet McKay died on the Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. (AUDIO: The Revenants [+]Loading...["The Revenants (audio story)"])
Ryan Sinclair's mother died of a heart attack. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"], The Tsuranga Conundrum [+]Loading...["The Tsuranga Conundrum (TV story)"])
Sewa Singh was born. (PROSE: Growing Higher [+]Loading...["Growing Higher (short story)"])
Other
A Cyberman invasion of Earth occurred in this year. The Doctor was involved in this incident. (COMIC: Invasion of the Mindmorphs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Mindmorphs (comic story)"])
According to one account, the United Kingdom had a king by this time. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"])
