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In '''2540''', the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] prevented [[the Master (UNIT years)|the Master]] from fomenting war between the [[Earth Empire]] and the [[Draconian Empire]]. ([[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War]]'') They defeated the [[Dalek]]s' invasion plans on [[Spiridon]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'') However, the path to the [[Second Dalek War]] was already set.

On [[21 June]], [[Bernice Summerfield]] was born on [[Earth]] colony [[Beta Caprisis]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'')

22.09.72.2540 is given as the time the Earth cargo ship C982 jumps into [[hyperspace]] at the beginning of [[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and the Doctor tells Jo Grant that they are in the 26th century. 2540 is explicitly cited as the year in [[Doctor Who and the Space War|the novelisation]] and [[NA]]: ''[[Shadowmind]]''. [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'' follows some time close to this point.

[[NA]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'' indicates that [[25th century]] dates given in previous books for Bernice Summerfield's life were actually part of one of the other calendar systems in use in the [[Mutter's Spiral]] of her time. In another system, she was born in 2422. ([[NA]]: ''[[Falls the Shadow]]'').