1998
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1998 was a year.
Events
Dated
On 12 January, 19 European countries agreed to ban human cloning. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])
In the summer, Iris Wildthyme and Panda visited an English village and encountered Andrew. (PROSE: Dog Days of Summer [+]Loading...["Dog Days of Summer (short story)"])
In August, the Eighth Doctor, Liv Chenka, and Helen Sinclair visited Calcot and found that it was being affected by a piece of the Doomsday Chronometer. The piece's proximity to a newly installed cellphone tower allowed calls made within the town to reach into the past to dead loved ones. The Doctor and Liv found the piece while Helen met with her brother George, who died shortly before the Doctor, Helen, and Liv left. (AUDIO: Absent Friends [+]Loading...["Absent Friends (audio story)"])
In autumn, various important people infected with Khameirian mental energies attempted to start a nuclear war to give the Khameirian the massive amounts of radiation needed to awaken. The Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones visited rural England and spent several nights in Norton Silver's mansion. Through Silver, they discovered the Khameirian plot in time to prevent them from accessing Station Nine and starting a war. (PROSE: Option Lock [+]Loading...["Option Lock (novel)"])
In the 1998 Christmas shopping season, the time-active children's toy Parablox was released. Shortly after Christmas ended, the Great Houses erased the remaining Parablox stock from the timeline. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])
On 24 December, the Ninth Doctor changed history by giving the twelve-year-old Rose Tyler a red bicycle which the nineteen-year-old Rose never got for Christmas. A minor setback occurred when Jinko stole the bicycle and took it to the Andromeda galaxy, but the Doctor got it back and put it under the Christmas tree in 48 Powell Estate while Rose and Jackie Tyler visited Nanna Prentice.
On 25 December, Rose unwrapped the red bicycle which the Doctor had left for her. (PROSE: The Red Bicycle [+]Loading...["The Red Bicycle (short story)"])
Undated
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith prevented the Voracian invasion of Earth. The Doctor claimed that 1998 was "not one of [his] favourites." (PROSE: System Shock [+]Loading...["System Shock (novel)"])
Sarah Jane Morley addressed the Nobel Academy. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"])
Michael Campling's Shakespeare's Playing Space was published. (PROSE: Theatre of War [+]Loading...["Theatre of War (novel)"])
The Spice Girls went on tour. (AUDIO: The Lichyrwick Abomination [+]Loading...["The Lichyrwick Abomination (audio story)"])
SkipN saw the Ninth Doctor at a Boston Red Sox game, and the Doctor told him to be patient and wait until 2004. SkipN wrote about this on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk in 2005. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
Births and deaths
Dated
Giles' niece Harriet King was born on 1 June 1998. Due to his estrangement from his sister (and Harriet's mother) Sandra King, however, Giles would only learn of her existence in 2019. (AUDIO: Broken Bonds [+]Loading...["Broken Bonds (audio story)"])
On 12 October, Thomas Hector Schofield was born to Cassandra Schofield in the Royal Bolton Hospital. (AUDIO: The Harvest [+]Loading...["The Harvest (audio story)"], Thicker Than Water [+]Loading...["Thicker Than Water (audio story)"], Project: Destiny [+]Loading...["Project Destiny (audio story)","Project: Destiny"])
Undated
Sally Hunt's mother died. (PROSE: Damaged Goods [+]Loading...["Damaged Goods (novel)"])
Yasmin Khan was born in this year. (COMIC: A New Beginning [+]Loading...["A New Beginning (comic story)"], PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13 [+]Loading...["The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)"])
Other
Tom Dering was the President of the United States of America. (PROSE: Option Lock [+]Loading...["Option Lock (novel)"])
According to some accounts, Sarah Jane Smith had married Paul Morley by this year. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"], Interference - Book Two [+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"])
When she encountered Magnus Greel in Reykjavik in the 51st century, Romana II gave him a business card for an excellent plastic surgeon in 1998. (PROSE: Under Reykjavik [+]Loading...["Under Reykjavik (short story)"])
