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This page lists the order of television stories in the Doctor Who universe timeline with a focus on events between Event One and the far future. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.


Timeline rules:

  • Only list stories. References to dates that the story does not take place in are to be excluded.
  • Many stories will contradict each other, so these contradictions should be noted but treated equally. (e.g. TV: The Enemy of the World and other stories set in 2018)
  • Direct quotes indicating the time period the story takes place should be provided. (Quotes sourced from another story should indicate the story it is from.)

Format (list all available):

  • Day Month Year - MEDIUM: Story title
CHARACTER/TEXT/NOTE: Indication of time period

Timeline[[edit source]]

BC years[[edit source]]

Beginning of the universe[[edit source]]

NYSSA: You don't understand the physics of the situation. We're already caught in the field of Event One. It's pulling us in faster and faster.
DOCTOR: Enormous. Biggest explosion of all time. Event One.
KARI: The Big Bang?
DOCTOR: There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two.

Billions of years BC[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: About six billion years ago. It's a Tuesday, I think.
NOTE: Despite the Tenth Doctor seeing the formation of the Earth c. 4.6 billion BC, the Eleventh Doctor visited a molten Earth billions of years earlier.
DOCTOR: We've gone back four point six billion years. There's no solar system, not yet. Only dust and rocks and gas. That's the Sun, over there. Brand new. Just beginning to burn.

Hundreds of millions of years BC[[edit source]]

TANCREDI: Four hundred million years I think is the figure you're looking for.
DOCTOR: 150 million years in the past.
DOCTOR: Some a hundred and forty million years ago.

Tens of millions of years BC[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: It may be of some small consequence to know we've travelled backwards in time some sixty five million years.

Prehistory[[edit source]]

NOTE: 100,000 BC was a working title.

3rd millennium BC[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Well, yes, the pyramids are the seventh wonder of this ancient world, I should say the word impressive is rather an understatement.
PROSE Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe: "This earliest recorded appearance of the Daleks on Earth was during the height of the Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom (approximately 2200 BC), when, in pursuit of the Doctor, they arrived in their time ship in the vicinity of the Great Pyramids at Giza."

2nd millennium BC[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Yes. Right, Jo, we're about to land back in Cambridge. Just think. It all happened three thousand, five hundred years ago.
TEXT: Egypt, 1334 BC
QUOTE?

3rd century BC[[edit source]]

TEXT: 221 BC

AD years[[edit source]]

1st century[[edit source]]

GRAY: I want you to suffer. I want your life. This is Cardiff, 27 AD.
DOCTOR: Yes. Caesar Nero made it. The rebuilding of Rome. Let me see, where are we now? 64 AD, July. Yes, of course. He sets fire to Rome.
DOCTOR: It's 79 AD, twenty third of August, which makes volcano day tomorrow.
TEXT: Six months later

2nd century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Just followed the coordinates on the cliff face. Earth. Britain. One oh two am. No, PM. No, AD.
BILL: Aberdeen, Scotland, second century AD.
NOTE: Real world year.

9th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: You know, I've been to Belgium. Yeah. I remember I was deep in the Ardennes, trying to find Charlemagne. He'd been kidnapped by an insane computer.
ASHILDR (The Woman Who Lived): I've had eight hundred years of adventure, enough to fill a library if you write it down.
MITCH: We reckon 9th or 10th century. Part of our funding came from a group who think it could be Alfred The Great...

11th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Now, if Harold is king, and Edward was laid to rest at the beginning of the year, then it must be 1066! Yes. Judging by the appearance of these leaves, late summer. And a balmy night, a balmy night.

12th century[[edit source]]

‘We can’t possibly go to King Richard wearing clothes like these. We are on Earth at the time of the Third Crusade, my boy, in Palestine; some time between A.D. 1190 and 1192. We must find wearing apparel suitable to the time and place.’
NOTE: From the novelisation
DOCTOR: No, no. Time of year? What season?
ROBIN: Oh, Dame Autumn has draped her mellow skirts about the forest, Doctor. The time of mists and harvest approaches.
DOCTOR: It's 1190.

13th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: It's 1207.
DOCTOR: March the fourth, 1215.
SARAH (The Sontaran Experiment): Linx. A Sontaran. Can't be. You were destroyed in the thirteenth century. You were blown to smithereens.
POLO: How long have you been travelling? It is twelve hundred and eighty nine and this is the Plain of Pamir, known to those who travel to Cathay as The Roof of the World.

14th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: The Black Death, 1348. I meant to warn you.

15th century[[edit source]]

ASHILDR: The Battle of Agincourt. My first stint as a man. No-one will ever know that a mere woman helped end the Hundred Years' War.
SUSAN: Well, the Aztecs were Mexicans. We must be on Earth again. I wonder what year it is.
BARBARA: He must have died around 1430, I should think.
DOCTOR: We've landed on Earth. Glass technology indicates Mediterranean area. Late fifteenth century. Not a very pleasant time.

16th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: The original, I presume? Completed in 1503 and it's now what, 1505, and you're getting the old boy to do you another six, yes, which you then brick up in a cellar in Paris for Scarlioni to find in four hundred and seventy four time.
TEXT: 1533
DOCTOR: England, 1562.
ANNE: Date, Monsieur? August the twenty-third as
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes, I know that. The year, the year, hmm?
ANNE: Fifteen seventy two, Monsieur. But surely you know that?
DOCTOR: Ah, you got to love Venice. So many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova. Ooo, that reminds me. 1580. That's all right. Casanova doesn't get born for a hundred and forty-five years. Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken.
DOCTOR: I think so. 'Round about 1599.

17th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: It's a witch trial. Must be early 17th century.
BECKA: As King James has written in his new Bible, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." [Published in 1611.]
DOCTOR: Well, in strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies, I've known since November the twenty-third, 1638.
DOCTOR: Oh, no, this isn't a visit, I've got a job to do. I'm here looking for an alien object which has no business being here on Earth in 1651.
DOCTOR: Yes, I'm afraid you're going to lose your bet, young man. That gentleman comes from the seventeenth century.
KING CHARLES II: Where's the Doctor?
DOCTOR: Oh! Stay away from London. Wait a minute. Apple tree, apple, man holding an apple in 1666? Are you...Sir Isaac Newton?
The Great Fire of London.
AVERY: April the first, 1699.
DOCTOR: Yes. Okay, problem word. Seventeenth century. My ship automatically, er, noticed-ish that your ship was having some bother.

18th century[[edit source]]

REINETTE: Of course I can. Seventeen hundred and twenty-seven.
NOTE: The Battle of Culloden
STOYN (The Dying Light): James Robert McCrimmon. Left Scotland, 1746.
TIME LORD 2: They will be returned to a time just before they went away with you. They will remember their first adventure with you, but nothing more.
ROSE: Madame de Pompadour. Please, don't scream or anything. We haven't got a lot of time. I've come to warn you that they'll be here in five years... Some time after your thirty seventh birthday.
LOUIS: Leaving Versailles for the last time. Only forty-three when she died. Too young. Too young. Illness took her in the end. She always did work too hard. What does she say?
ROBESPIERRE: But can I trust them? If this motion gets underway, they will turn against me to save their own necks. Mark my words, LeMaitre. If this plot is successful, tomorrow, the 27th of July 1794, will be a date for history.

19th century[[edit source]]

1800s[[edit source]]
YAZ: It's 1807.
1810s[[edit source]]
DOCTOR: Ha. Where do you hide a spaceship in 1813?
DOCTOR: Our London. We're on the Thames. The last great Frost Fair. 1814, February the fourth.
DOCTOR: This night, June 1816, Byron challenges Mary Polidori and Percy Shelley to come up with a ghost story.
1820s[[edit source]]
PERI: I could have been stuck in the eighteen hundreds forever.
SOURCE?
1830s[[edit source]]
BABBAGE: The year, madam, remains 1834.
1840s[[edit source]]
England, 1842.
1850s[[edit source]]
BOY: Christmas Eve, sir. Year of our Lord 1851, sir.
DOCTOR: Sebastopol. 1850s. Orientated. I know where we are. Crimean War, 1855, Ottoman Empire weakening, British soldiers fighting Russians.
1860s[[edit source]]
MAXTIBLE: You're in my house, some miles from Canterbury. The date is June the 2nd, eighteen hundred and sixty six.
DOCTOR: I did it. Give the man a medal. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860. ... It's not 1860, it's 1869.
1870s[[edit source]]
Assuming no time travel was involved.
ISAAC: Them being scared scares me. War only ended five years back. That old violence is still under the surface.
IAN: Really? I haven't seen the joke yet, I must say. One thing I did see, by the way. The name of that ship we were on: The Mary Celeste.
PROSE Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe: "One such occasion involved the mysterious legend of the Mary Celeste, an American merchant brigantine found adrift and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872."
DOCTOR: 1879. Same difference
RACHEL (New Girl): On the 31st of December 1879, Queen Victoria issued a charter creating the Torchwood Institute.
1880s[[edit source]]
DOCTOR: Mars. 1881, or thereabouts. According to the Tardis, that's when the message was made.
NOTE: The historical gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
DOCTOR (The Magic Mousetrap): I never read the Tattler unless I'm at the dentist. And I've not been to the dentist since eighteen eighty-one.
DOCTOR: This is Inspector MacKenzie from Scotland Yard. He was sent here in 1881 to investigate the disappearance of the owner, Sir George Pritchard.
ACE: But that was two years ago.
DOCTOR: 1179 AD. Add a time deflection coefficient of seven hundred and six years, that is 1885 AD.
CLEMENCY: It was forty years ago, in the heat of Delhi, late one night. I was alone, and that's when I saw it. I loved him so much, it didn't matter. But he was stolen from me. 1885, the year of the great monsoon.
TEXT: London, 1888 A.D.
CASEY: Oh, it says in the paper how it could be jollyJack at work again.
NOTE: Jack the Ripper's 5 canonical killings were between August and November of 1888.
1890s[[edit source]]
BLACK: Well, in that case, probably somewhere between the first and third of June. 1890. Less than a year before, before he killed himself.
TEXT: France 1890
DOCTOR: 26th of June, 1890. The recently opened Savoy Hotel.
NOTE: Real word date. Vincent shoots himself in a field.
JENNY: Well, it is nearly Christmas.
JENNY: Merry Christmas!
TOMBSTONE: Clara Oswin Oswald. Remember me, we shall meet again. Born November 23 1866, died December 24, 1892.
DOCTOR: Okay, so. Not London 1893. Yorkshire 1893. Near enough.
TEXT: London 1893 - prison cell
GIRL: He's coming, the one you're looking for. But the century will turn twice before you find each other again.
JACK: Ooo. Are you for real? You mean I have to wait a hundred years to find him? What'll I do in the meantime?

20th century[[edit source]]

1900s[[edit source]]
TEXT: Torchwood Hub - 1901
JACK: Now I need you to put me in the morgue. Freeze me. Set the alarm to defrost in a hundred and seven years time.
PEGGY: She said it was excavated in 1901, but it wasn't. We're in 1901.
REUBEN: Last time that beast was seen on Fang Rock, eighty year ago now, two men died that very same night.
VINCE: 'Ere, Reuben. You don't really think what happened before, back in the twenties, you don't really think it's happening again, do you?
African Plains 1902 A.D.
NEWSPAPER: NEW YORK, 1903 - SIXTEEN PAGES.
DOCTOR: Met Mata Hari in a Paris hotel room. What an interesting woman.
NOTE: Real world dancing career.
TEXT: 1904 Mexico, 1904 Constantinople, 1904 Nepal, 1904 Great Wall of China, 1904 Liverpool
TEXT: Lahore, 1909
1910s[[edit source]]
SARAH: But he didn't, did he. I mean, we know the world didn't end in 1911.
MARTHA: I can prove that wrong for you, sir. Here's the morning paper. It's Monday, November tenth, nineteen thirteen, and you're completely human, sir. As human as they come.
HUTCHINSON: Leave me. I'm not going to make it.
LATIMER: Oh yes, you are. Didn't I promise you, all those years ago? Now, come on. And that's an order!
DOCTOR: Any other day it wouldn't make any difference, but this is Christmas 1914, and a human miracle is about to happen. The Christmas Armistice.
DOCTOR: It's just outside Earth in the year 1916.
TOMMY: Take me. I'm in there in the ward in 1918. You have to take me so I can be here now. Just take me!
1920s[[edit source]]
The Hull Times, 5th December 1920
QUOTE? [Hollywood scene with Charlie Chaplin and Bing Crosby]
NOTE: Secen reprised in the opening of PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy.
DOCTOR: Three o'clock, June the 11th, 1925.
TEXT: 1925
SHIRLEY: Doctor? Stooky Bill was televised the 2nd of October 1925 at 22 Frith Street, Soho, W1D 4RF.
DOCTOR: No policewomen in 1926.
TEXT: Ellis Island, New York City, USA - 1927
TEXT: Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA - 1928
1930s[[edit source]]
DOCTOR: That attack in 1630, what was the outcome?
THOMNI: It disappeared three hundred years ago.
ANNE (The Web of Fear): Yes. Yes, he seems to. And you met him, when was it you said? In 1935? In Tibet?
AMY: Yes, hang on. Oh, April 3rd, 1938.
JIM: Hang on! This is 1938. We're too early. We need to go later in his time stream.
MADGE: Oh, don't be silly. It's Christmas Eve. No one should be alone at Christmas.
1940s[[edit source]]
POSTER: 1941 Kiss The Boys Goodbye Dance, Saturday 20th January 1941 7.30pm
GEORGE: But she didn't say how thick. It's the 7th of June, 1941.
NOTE: Gwen's flashback to Tom being sent to Cardiff.
TOM: No. Lived here sixty-six years and still sound like a barrow boy. I was evacuated during the war. 1941. The Germans bombing the hell out of the East End.
DOCTOR: I make it 1941. You lot shouldn't even be in London. You should've been evacuated to the country by now.
CHURCHILL: I rang you a month ago.
PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe: "A single Dalek ship had escaped the destruction of a vast Dalek fleet in the future, tumbling through time to find itself marooned in Earth’s Solar System in 1941. The ship was carrying a Dalek Progenitor, a device capable of creating new ‘pure’ Daleks from original Kaled mutant DNA."
Cabinet War Rooms, London 1941
MADGE: England, 1941. And there's a war on.
PREM: In Singapore. Our section had found a boat to escape on. But I'd signed up with Kunal. I wasn't going to leave without him at my side.
ACE: I didn't know they had personal stereos in 1943.
TEXT: Montomgery, Alabama 1943
NOOR: Paris, 1943.
TEXT: NEW MEXICO DESERT - JUNE 13, 1947
DOCTOR: He's been keeping her alive with the bugs for about 70 years.
DOCTOR: It's the 17th of August.
GRAHAM: Sorry, I don't mean to sound stupid, what year is it, exactly?
PREM: Same year you have in England, 1947.
1950s[[edit source]]
SARAH JANE: We lived in a village called Foxgrove. That's where I was born. One afternoon in August 1951, they got in their car, drove off, and they never came back.... Today's date. August the 18th. It's the day they died.
TEXT: Hollywood 1952.
MAGPIE: What do you mean? The Coronation.
ROSE: It's the Queen's. Queen Elizabeth.
DOCTOR: Oh! Is this 1953?
DOCTOR: Today is Wednesday, November 30th, 1955. Tomorrow Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.
TEXT: DRY SPRINGS, NEVADA - 11 YEARS LATER [From 1947]
TEXT: 1958 England
TOLLMASTER: Your prize. Hang about. You have won our fabulous Fifties tour. A week, a whole week, in Disneyland, planet Earth. And this time, they're going back to 1959. The rock and roll years.
1960s[[edit source]]
NOTE: Owen's flashback to Elizabeth Lewis' murder.
TOSH: Elizabeth Lewis. Lizzie. Only child of Mabel Ann Lewis of Hafod Street. Died March 29th, 1963.
IAN: So that when we go out of that door, we won't be in a junkyard in London in England in the year 1963?
PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy: "As a bullet blew open his head in Dallas, Texas, it was 12.30 p.m. on Friday 22 November 1963.... In the Shoreditch suburb of East London, two school teachers left the local Coal Hill School together."
ACE: But this is Earth, 1963. Well, someone would have noticed. I'd have heard about it.
PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy: "The Shoreditch Incident took place just one week after the assassination of America's President John F Kennedy."
MARIA: July 13th, 1964. It's today, the accident, it's about to happen.
IAN: London, 1965!
NOTE: Clem's flashback to the first 456 event.
IANTO (Children of Earth: Day Three): And they had a Clement MacDonald. He was taken into care, April 1965, after his mother died. No father on record. In November 1965, he was transferred, along with.
DOCTOR: Oh, Christmas. Oh, is it? Of course. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That accounts for the holly in the hall.
MORTON: 1966 Ma'am. Say, you wouldn't be trying to have a bit of fun with me now, would you?
SUMMER: Gentleman, ladies, may I have your attention please? Well, you're heard the backroom boys, now it's about time you my turn. C Day, that is Computer Day, will be next Monday, July the 16th, that is in four days time.
BEN: Don't you see, Duchess? July the 20th, 1966 is when it all began! We're back to when it all started. Well, I think.
NOTE: Picks up from The Faceless Ones
JERICHO: There it goes again! Twice, for no reason. It is empirically, factually, November the 21st, 1967.
TEXT: 1967 England
FARQUHAR: Hmm? Oh, this is an object we found in a deserted village in Devon. The few residents disappeared overnight and this box was the only anomaly.
QUOTE?
BEN: Mexico Olympiad.... That's right, it wasn't due till 1968.
POLLY: Right, so now is any time later than that.
AMY: Washington D.C., April the eighth, 1969. So why haven't we landed?
DOCTOR: 1969. Not bad, as it goes. You've got the moon landing to look forward to.
NOTE: The novelisation summary dates this story to 1963. A different story dates it to June 1969. (PROSE: House of Giants)
TEXT: Three months later - July 1969.
UNIT Dating[[edit source]]
UNIT stories set in the 1960s, 1970s, and/or 1980s should be placed here. See UNIT dating controversy and Timeline - UNIT
Early UNIT Era[[edit source]]
(TV PLACEMENT) ANNE: Yes. Yes, he seems to. And you met him, when was it you said? In 1935? In Tibet?
TRAVERS: But it can't be. Why, that's over forty years ago.
ALT. PLACEMENT 1: "It was the closure of the entire London Underground network and subsequent evacuation of Central London during the nerve gas panic of August 1966, that led directly to the subsequent birth of UNIT." (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
ALT. PLACEMENT 2: ‘It’s a full MoD report on the London Event of Sixty-eight.’ (PROSE: Downtime)
Book One - 1967: ‘[The Yeti are] not due for another year or two.’ Book Two - [June] 1968: ‘United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. It’s a new –’ (PROSE: Revolution Man)
ALT. PLACEMENT 3 & 4: The years 1969 to 1989 were folded into one decade as a result of the Doctor's faulty TARDIS. The 1990 dating protocol established February 1969 and March 1975 as equally valid dates for the London Event. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
(TV PLACEMENT) BRIGADIER: That's right, McCrimmon, in the underground. Must be four years ago now. [From TV: The Web of Fear in c. 1975]
ALT. PLACEMENT 1: "Summer in the 70s ... From a hoarding overlooking St Paul’s, a giant face smiled down, one eyebrow raised: Tobias Vaughn, IE’s managing director." (PROSE: Iceberg)
ALT. PLACEMENT 2: "The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce first went into action in the spring of 1969." (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
ALT. PLACEMENT 3: The Invasion is explicitly dated to 1975. (AUDIO: Last of the Cybermen)
(TV PLACEMENT) DOCTOR: June the seventh, 1977. Well done, Brigadier. Come on.
NOTE: Despite being promoted to Brigadier between The Web of Fear and The Invasion, the Brigadier retired in 1976 and became a maths teacher. Mawdryn Undead is set a year after the Brig's retirement.
ALT. PLACEMENT: The years 1969 to 1989 were folded into one decade as a result of the Doctor's faulty TARDIS. The 1990 dating protocol established 1976 and 1981 as equally valid dates for the Brigadier's retirement. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
Liz Shaw era[[edit source]]
PROSE: Blood Heat - In an alternate timeline where the Silurians take over Earth:
‘I am the Leader of this City. This is my home planet, Earth. By the human calendar the year is 1993.’
‘Why yes. Just as you did twenty years ago against the Autons and the Nestene Consciousness.’
PROSE: Blood Heat - In an alternate timeline where the Silurians take over Earth:
‘Are the Silurians really the rightful inhabitants of the Earth? ... Perhaps my personal destiny was to die, in 1973, here on Earth.’
Jo Grant era[[edit source]]
MASTER: Now, today is May Day. Go and enjoy yourselves. Celebrate the festival with your families. When I need you all, I shall summon you again.
DOCTOR (Clara Oswald and the School of Death): The Sea Devils first re-surfaced in 1972 -- or possibly 1982, it gets foggy -- your time...
Sarah Jane Smith era[[edit source]]
DUFFY: Age?
SARAH JANE: Twenty three.
SARAH JANE (The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith): We lived in a village called Foxgrove. That's where I was born. One afternoon in August 1951, they got in their car, drove off, and they never came back... To leave a three month old baby on its own?
NOTE: The years 1969 to 1989 were folded into one decade as a result of the Doctor's faulty TARDIS. The 1990 dating protocol established 1974 and 1979 as equally valid dates for the dinosaur invasion. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
SARAH JANE (Pyramids of Mars): Oh, that's just the Doctor. We travel in time, Mister Scarman. I'm really from 1980.
NOTE: Soon after TV: Planet of the Spiders.
1970s[[edit source]]
TEXT: New York - 6 months later [From July 1969.]
PALMER: Excellent, then. Excellent. Caliburn House, night four, November 25th, 1974. 11:04 PM.
ELTON (memory): What was it? I must have been three or four years old. Middle of the night, went downstairs, and there was this man.
NOTE: A deleted scene put Elton’s birthday as 1973.
NOTE: Not said on screen, only in a trailer.
MARTHA: But 'tis Lammas Eve. [According to Island of the Fendahl, Lammas Eve is 1 August]
DOCTOR (Island of the Fendahl): The skull, I know. The first professor Fendahlman unearthed it in Africa, what, 40 years ago.
FREDDIE (Island of the Fendahl): In the middle 1970s, yes.
NOTE: Although the 1970s aren't forty years before 2007, there was no real way for the Doctor to know the year when he made his estimation, given that the Tardis was dysfunctional, and he had not yet asked anyone of the year.
PROSE: First Frontier: 'No. Bandraginus Five was a shipyard for the Vegans; I was on Zanak in 1978, and it certainly wasn't a Tzun colony; and Collactin orbits a red supergiant star, and also has unsurvivable radiation levels, even for the Tzun.'
QUOTE?
DOCTOR: Ah well, yes. It's 1979 actually. More of a table wine, shall we say. Ha! The randomiser's a useful device but it lacks true discrimination. Should we sip it and see?
CHRONOTIS: Yes! Young Parsons. Born 1956, graduated 1978, honours degree in chemistry, currently engaged in sigma particles.
DOCTOR: It's October.
1980s[[edit source]]
QUOTE?
QUOTE?
DOCTOR: (The Doctor wets a finger and holds it up.) 1980.
QUOTE?
DOCTOR (Four to Doomsday): When was your flight again? ... February the twenty eighth, 1981. Oh, you'll have time for a cup of tea. It's only sixteen fifteen hours.
QUOTE?
NOTE: Clara’s parents meet from an autumn leaf falling. The Doctor is hiding behind the Beano Summer Special 1981.
K9: No available data. What is the Earth year?
SARAH JANE: 1981. December 18th.
SARAH JANE: Brendan and I just had Christmas dinner here.
TEGAN (The Waters of Amsterdam): I met him about a year ago now. After you and the Doctor left me at Heathrow, I took up my job as a stewardess for Air Australia.
NOTE: The Waters of Amsterdam is set in 1983, so this story is set in 1982.
DOCTOR: If these readings are correct, it's 1983 on Earth.
BRIG: It was in the summer term of 1983. That wretched boy Turlough had taken my car and crashed it.
CLARA: Yeah, but the world didn't end in 1983, did it, or I wouldn't be here.
TURLOUGH: We're not. I checked the time monitor. It is 1984.
DOCTOR: Well, the instruments are still affected by turbulence, but I think it's 1984, London. Found it!
NOTE: The opening scene of The Reaping takes place a few hours before Peri first meets the Doctor.
DOCTOR: Can't be far, the signal is very strong.... Strange. It's coming from Earth. In 1985?
QUOTE?
CYBERMAN (Death in Heaven): [Clara Oswald was] born 23rd November, 1986.
CALENDAR: December 1986.
POLLY: 1986! Oh no, and I thought we'd be able to get home.
NOTE: During the end of TV: The Tenth Planet.
TEXT: 1987 England
DOCTOR: November the 7th?
ROSE: 1987.
NOTE: Clara as a toddler.
DOCTOR: In a matter of months since I was last here, he's calculated the exact time and date when a comet called Nemesis will land on this planet. The twenty third of November.
ACE: 1988
"It was an ordinary Sunday in Perivale. The hazy June sunshine made a half-hearted attempt to pierce the cloud and fumes that hung over London."
"The Doctor followed a pace behind her, looking round at the sights. He was not familiar with Perivale in the late 1980s."
PROSE: First Frontier: 'What?' Ace thought hard, recalling what the Doctor had said about the other Time Lord after their encounter in Perivale in 1989. 'You said he had passed his last regeneration.'
1990s[[edit source]]
NOTE: Primary school age Clara
DOCTOR: The West Country Children's Home. Gloucester. By the ozone level and the drains, mid-nineties. You must have been here when you had the dream.
GRANT: A couple of years after high school...
NOTE: Young Rose in her flashback was portrayed by Julia Joyce, born in 1998, was 6 in 2005. Rose was born in 1986.
DOCTOR: Ho-ho-ho-ho. Merry Christmas, Grant!
DOCTOR: Grant, how long have you known this woman?
GRANT: Since elementary school. Twenty four years.
DOCTOR: Your saddest ever memory was at a fairground in 1994.
AMELIA: Dear Santa. Thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you, but honest, it is an emergency.
AMY: There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Tell her this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this how it ends.
DOCTOR: Amelia's house. When she was seven. The night she waited.
NOTE: Amy, Rory, and Mels in primary school.
TICKET BOOTH: Festival of Ghana 1996
DOCTOR: Earth. A few years in your future.
BRIGADIER: Doris, I don't care if it was the King. I'm still retired.
ORACLE (Project: Lazarus): Positive identification made. Matching records from reported incident in Shoreditch, London, 1963. Cross-reference to Carbury, 1997. Cross-reference..
BRUCE: December thirtieth.
LEE: 1999.
TEXT: New Year's Eve 1999. 01:59:89 [Counting down to midnight.]
REPORTER: Some parts of the world have already welcomed in the New Year. Our cameras, of course, have been out in force across the UK tonight. Let's take you first to Cardiff.

21st century[[edit source]]

2000s[[edit source]]
LEE: Right! Thanks. Thanks, Doctor! See you around, Grace. Happy new year!
TEXT: 5 years earlier [Toshiko's flashback]
DOCTOR: Once upon a time, late on Christmas Eve, a stranger came to the church on Ruby Road.
ROSE: Blimey, how much have you had? 2005, January the first.
POSTER (Aliens of London): Rose Tyler has been missing from her home on the Powell Estate since 6th March 2005.
(Rose calls Jackie who is in modern day)
TEXT: 4 years earlier [Owen's flashback (part 1)]
NOTE: Owen's flashback (part 2). Captain Jack recruits him to Torchwood at Katie's gave. Owen was hungover during his second week on the job during Aliens of London:
TOSH (Exit Wounds): Your second week, I had to cover for you. Pretend I was a medic, because you were hungover and unreachable.
OWEN (Exit Wounds): What was it, Space Pig?
DOCTOR: It's not twelve hours, it's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. Sorry.
TEXT: Six months later [from World War Three]
NOTE: Rose looks into the heart of the TARDIS in modern day.
JACKIE: Yeah. Keep a count of it. It's midnight. Christmas day. Any change?
Sarah Jane Smith created Mr Smith 18 months before The Lost Boy
ELTON: And that's when it all changed, that Tuesday night in March. That's when he arrived.
KATHY: To take one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920 is a strange way to start a new life, but a new life is exactly what I've always wanted.
JACKIE: Oh. That was about two months ago. Just happened. Woke up one morning, and there they all were. Ghosts, everywhere.
At a World War I memorial
DIANE: Today, December the 18th.
GWEN: Merry Christmas!
DONNA: Well, duh. Maybe not on Mars, but here it's Christmas Eve. Phone box! We can reverse the charges!
NOTE: Late Teen Amy, Rory, and Mels
DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor. I'm a time traveller. Everything I told you twelve years ago is true. I'm real.
TEXT: One year later
VIVIEN: Eighteen months ago, he became real. This is his first, honest to God appearance, just after the downfall of Harriet Jones. And at the exact same time, they launched the Archangel Network.
NOTE: Occurs on Friday the 20th(as per a calendar) and 114 years before the 7th February 1894. The only viable date is 20th June 2008.
DOCTOR: Okay, Bannakaffalatta. But it's Christmas Eve down there. Late night shopping, tons of people.
Maria Jackson moves out of Bannerman Road.
Maria Jackson doesn't live on Bannerman road.
DOCTOR: Hello, I'm the Doctor. Happy Easter.
BARCLAY: Like when all those planets were up in the sky.
NEWSPAPER: Wednesday September 2009
SYLVIA: Merry Christmas. But she can't see you. What if she remembers?
WILF: Oh. I've always dreamt of a view like that. Hee, hee. I'm an astronaut. It's dawn over England, look. Brand new day.
2010s[[edit source]]
Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer are doing GCSEs.
DOCTOR: Paris, 2010 AD. And this is the mighty Musée D'Orsay, home to many of the greatest paintings in history.
ADVERTISEMENT (The Lodger): Vincent van Gogh: The Great Innovation: 17th March-29th August 2010.
NOTE: There is snow on the ground in the episode, so this is most realistically in March.
WILF: Shaun Temple. They're engaged. Getting married in the spring.
AMY: Yeah, but those things, those amazing things, all that stuff. That was two years ago.
CLOCK: 11:55 PM
(Amy and Rory's wedding)
ALEX: He was eight in January. I mean, he should be growing out of stuff like this, shouldn't he? ... Well, I told you. Just turned eight.
DOCTOR: Course you do. How could you not? You and Claire. Christmas Eve, 2002, right? Couple of weeks before George was born.
LETTER 3: 22 / 04 / 2011 - 16 : 30 MDT
AMY: Okay, you've had all summer. Have you found her? Have you found Melody?
Miracle Day dating controversy[[edit source]]
All stories regarding Torchwood: Miracle Day should be placed here.
TEXT MESSAGE: $100,000 deposited to your personal savings account. From Bank. 6:13pm 22-MAR-11
TEXT: Two months later: Day 61 of the Great Depression.
NOTE: According to Rex's phone, Charlette last used her phone on: 2011.09.09
The Power of Three dating controversy[[edit source]]
All 21st century stories featuring the Amy and Rory Pond after The God Complex should be placed here. See The Power of Three dating controversy.
The Doctor gives Amy Pond and Rory Williams a new house. A common theory to explain this dating controversy is that the Doctor dropped Amy and Rory off a few years in the past, but Amy is a famous model in 2011 would certainly draw the attention of their families and their past selves.
RIVER: I just climbed out of the Byzantium. You were there. So young. Didn't have a clue who I was. You're funny like that. Where are you?
AMY: The Doctor's dead.
NOTE: Amy is now a famous model for Petichor, implying this story is set after The God Complex. However, the Colchester Evening News is dated 19th April 2011. That date is problematic because Amy and Rory would need to be in Utah in only a few days, Amy is unfamiliar with the word petrichor in The Doctor's Wife, and Alfie is rather old given Craig and Sofie started their relationship in 2010.
DOCTOR: Not absolutely sure how long...
AMY: Two years?
Amy and Rory have a fight.
Amy and Rory are planning on a divorce.
AMY: Alright, where are we? What is that noise and hello, ten months?
NOTE: Supposedly Kate Stewart's first meeting with the Doctor.
AMY: She's here tonight, being as it's our wedding anniversary. We thought you might have dropped by. I left you messages.
BRIAN: Brian's log, day three hundred and sixty-one. Eight-fifty pm. No movement. And I am cream crackered.
2010s (cont'd)[[edit source]]
DOCTOR: Well, tried that, if you've noticed, and we are back where we started in 2012.
NOTE: Despite recent episodes, the Ponds are in 2012. Granted, they are time travellers and have little risk of meeting their past selves while in New York City.
HUW EDWARDS: We're live on News 24. The opening ceremony of the London Olympics of 2012 is well underway, and people from all over the world are streaming into the stadium right now.
ROSE: And when are we?
DOCTOR: Two thousand and twelve.
VAN STATTEN: So, the next President. What do you think? Republican or Democrat?
VASTRA: Assuming this letter will have reached you as planned, on April the tenth, 2013.
CLARA: I need you. I'm cooking Christmas dinner!
STRAX (Deep Breath): Ah, excellent. Enviable spleen. Well done. Twenty seven years old, with a projected lifespan of exactly—
NOTE: Clara was born 23 Novemeber 1986, making her 27 in 2013.
NOTE: Ending scene
DOCTOR: You sent me for coffee.
CLARA: Three weeks ago. In Glasgow.
DOCTOR: A tree is a time machine. You plant a little acorn in 1795, and in the year 2016, there's an oak tree, there, in the same spot, with a tiny little bit of 1795 still alive inside of it.
NOTE: With Christmas in Last Christmas and Clara's death before October 2016 it would be impossible for this story to be in 2016. 2016 must be an arbitrary date like 1795.
DOCTOR: Merry Christmas, Clara Oswald.
NORLANDER: The Brits came two years ago. We didn't want them. They just They just turned up. No jobs. Nowhere to live. No money. And they were, they were odd. They started getting into fights. Couple of them got killed.
Clara Oswald is listed on the Coal Hill School Roll of Honours Board by 27 October 2016. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)
Kevin Williams' missing poster confirms he was last seen on the 12th. The poster at the start dates the prom to 14 October.
VARUN: Rachel's only been gone a week.
NOTE: We see on Charlie's computer that the day of the confrontation with Coach Dawson is a Thursday. This story takes place over 4 distinct and consecutive days, so it must begin on Monday. Exactly a week after Prom would be Friday 21 October. Three days later is 24 October, the only Monday on which Varun would say it's been a week since Prom.
RAM: That's not even the third weirdest thing I have seen this month.
NOTE: We see on Ram's computer that the day is a Thursday. This means the only time the episode could take place is the Thursday after the conclusion of The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo. At around the midpoint of the episode, we see the time on Ram's phone is close to midnight meaning that the end of the episode ran into Friday morning.
RAM: I've been frightened non-stop for the last month.
CHARLIE: It's been almost a week. She hasn't even woken.
DOCTOR: Grant, how long have you known this woman?
GRANT: Since elementary school. Twenty four years.
NOTE: Bill meets the Doctor. A few months pass.
BILL: Going anywhere for Christmas?
DOCTOR: 1957. Every twenty years.
BILL: Hello, Mum. The Monks, the Monks have only been here for six months.
TEXT: Present Day - The Devil's Cairn, Scotland
TEXT: 2017 London
HELICOPTER PERMIT: Australasion [sic] Zone. Type Helicopter, (private). Valid until 31st Dec 2018. Class Reg No L23X.
NOTE: This story conflicts with others set in 2018 and the novelisation is set in 2030.
DEAN: Hallowe'en's next month, mate. Eat my salad, Hallowe'en!
NOTE: Rahul has a ticket for a football match dated Wednesday 14th September 2018.
NOTE: Presumably no time travel took place using the Stenza transport pod.
DOCTOR: But to be fair, it's only half an hour since you left.
DOCTOR: It's fine, it's only 2018... A cottage, in Norway, in winter, with a chimney but no smoke.
NARRATOR: On the first day of the year 2019, across the land and sky of Britain, an army of unlikely friends came together to face an impossible opponent and prevailed.
TEXT: 367 minutes later.
2020s[[edit source]]
A DOCTOR: Four years since your procedure.
GRAHAM (The Woman Who Fell to Earth): Oh, well, er, I had cancer and er... Well, strictly speaking, I'm still in remission, three years gone. [Set in September 2018, Graham told the Doctor that he had been in remission for cancer for the past three years]
DOCTOR: Well, you should talk to your mates at GCHQ! [Reference to the events of Resolution]
DOCTOR (1834): 186 years from now, they're assassinating spies, and I'm stuck here without my TARDIS, and I need to find my way back before...
MASTER: I've just had the most infuriating 77 years (from 1943) of my life.
DOCTOR: Multiple alerts across three continents here on Earth. Can't be connected. Unless they are. Quick look? [Leads into Praxeus.]
TEXT (The Tourist): With many of us still trying to process the traumatic events of January’s biker gang invasion, the truth still feels many pieces away from a full picture.
DOCTOR: Early in the third decade of the 21st century.
NOTES: Team TARDIS return to Sheffield to catch up with friends and family. Yaz lists the places she has been to Sonya, refering to Fugitive of the Judoon and Praxeus; their discussion of the "thing" in Gloucester alludes to the events of the former.
DOCTOR (The Haunting of Villa Diodati): I'll drop you back in 2020.
RYAN: (in Revolution of the Daleks) 10 months.
TEXT: Cwmtaff, South Wales, 2020 AD
DOCTOR: Blue grass. Patches of it all around the graveyard. So, Earth, 2020-ish, ten years in your future, wrong continent for Rio, I'll admit, but it's not a massive overshoot.
GRAHAM: Happy New Year, Yaz.
RYAN: 10 months [since the end of The Timeless Children]
DOCTOR: Right, dateline. October 31st.
DAN: So when did they turn up here, these Sontarans?
EILEEN: Same day you vanished. What's that? Two days ago now?
NOTE: Door labeled "December 5th, far future, two thousand and twenty one!!"
DOCTOR: Sorry. New Year's Eve 2021. Nine minutes to midnight.
DOCTOR: Daleks are setting off volcanoes in 2022
SYLVIA: It's a long time ago [since Journey's End], darling. 15 years.
NOTE: The novelisation explicitly sets the story in November 2023.
DOCTOR: Might be a day or two out.
SHIRLEY: Two days ago, an increase in violence worldwide - the same increase in every country, and all rising at exactly the same rate.
TOYMAKER: Then let's make it 2023.
TEXT: December 1, 2023; December 22, 2023; December 23, 2023; December 24, 2023
CARLA: And Ruby phoned. She said, "I love you", and ran off. No word from her since. What sort of Christmas is this?
DOCTOR: I think she was reborn every time. Each time the Tardis would land, the idea of that woman would get stronger and stronger. By 2024, she was Susan Triad, this monumental figure.
2040s[[edit source]]
DOCTOR: And it does all that because one day in the year 2049, when it had stopped thinking about going to the stars, something occurred that make it look up, not down.
2050s[[edit source]]
RANI: When you're on your own, you tend to forget things. People, places. I don't even know what year it is.
ADAM: It's 2059, Ms Chandra.
NOTE: The correct 2059 is seen at the end of the story.
DOCTOR: Oh, they'll never forget them. What's the date, today? What is it? Tell me the exact date.
ADELAIDE: November 21st, 2059.
2070s[[edit source]]
HOBSON: We've got a proper Rip Van Winkle here. It's 2070, in case you'd like to know.
STOYN (The Dying Light): Zoe Heriot. Left Space Station W3, 2079.
2080s[[edit source]]
DOCTOR: Around 2084.
DOCTOR: Just a minute, just a minute. Oh this control is. There we are. Now that, that's an ion-jet rocket of the twenty first century...
NOTE: Ice Warriors seized control of the T-Mat system in 2086 and it was replaced with the Interstitial Mass Transit System after the Thousand Day War ended. (PROSE: Transit)

22nd century[[edit source]]

ROSE: One hundred years.
DOCTOR: There you go. Step outside those doors, it's the twenty-second century.
DOCTOR: This is Colonel Orson Pink, from about a hundred years in your future.
NOTE: Orson is seen being returned home.
MORAN: Private journal of Captain Jonathan Moran, 21st November 2119. We have located a craft of unknown origin on the lake floor. Visual scans in situ revealed nothing, so we have brought the craft on board and myself and the crew will now investigate.
DOCTOR: You're not a monastery, you're a factory. Twenty-second century army-owned factory.
DOCTOR: Paradise Towers is supposed to be a remarkable architectural achievement, I'm told. Won all sorts of awards way back in the er, twenty-first century. Are you ready?
Lucifer Rising: "From the messy consequences of the Kroagnon affair to the Vraxoin raids off Azure, from the Macra case to the Vega debacle, Bishop’s record was immaculate."
DOCTOR: Ah, here, look. At least we know the century, dear boy. Look.
IAN (reading a calendar): 2164.
DOCTOR (The Mutant Phase): The Dalek occupation of Earth was foiled in 2167.

23rd century[[edit source]]

PERI: I'm from another time, another century. Nearly three centuries before you were born, I lived in another world. I had an idea you wouldn't believe me.
ROMANA: It's the first of the leisure planets. In relative Earth date 2250, there's a hideous war against some reptile people called the Foamasi
BROCK: Argolis is justly proud of tachyonics, but that science, you will admit, remains, after forty years, little more than a curiosity.

24th century[[edit source]]

Year based on AUDIO: Daleks Among Us.
Year based on AUDIO: Daleks Among Us.
Indian Space Agency 2367 A.D.
VALEYARD: If we may see from the Doctor's arrival on the planet Thoros Beta. Twenty fourth century, last quarter, fourth year, seventh month, third day.

25th century[[edit source]]

Jane tears off the calendar page for Mon 2 March 2472.
PARRY: Cybermen? A live Cyberman? My dear Viner, they've been dead for the last five hundred years.
VICKI: 2493, of course. My mother had just died and Daddy wanted to get away so he took a job on the planet Astra.

26th century[[edit source]]

ADRIC: The year is 2526 in the timescale you call Anno Domini.
HARDY: Preparing to enter hyperspace at twenty-two oh nine seventy-two, two thousand, five hundred and forty EST.
DOCTOR: Well, it's just a spaceship, Jo. You know, I reckon we must be somewhere in the twenty-sixth century. Well, interstellar travel's pretty routine by now.
Picks up right after Frontier in Space.

27th century[[edit source]]

NOTE: Date from The Time Traveller's Almanac

28th century[[edit source]]

MAITLAND: Yes, you see, the whole lower half of England is called Central City now. There hasn't been a London for four hundred years. We come from the twenty eighth century.

30th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: According to the Tardis's instrument readings, we are now in the thirtieth century empire.
DOCTOR: A scheduled flight in the Earth year two thousand nine hundred and eighty six.

32nd century[[edit source]]

SOURCE?

33rd century[[edit source]]

COMPUTER: Name, Amelia Jessica Pond. Age, thirteen hundred and six. [However, the screens read 1308.]

35th century[[edit source]]

SOURCE?
NOTE: Half a century after leaving, Nyssa reunited with the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough in 3530. (AUDIO: Cobwebs)

38th century[[edit source]]

After AUDIO: Davros.
DOCTOR: Thirty eighth century. (Tastes his finger again.) Tuesday.

39th century[[edit source]]

Era based on PROSE: Legacy.
SOURCE?

40th century[[edit source]]

SOURCE?
DOCTOR: Look, it's fifty years now since Peladon joined the Galactic Federation, and what have the miners got to show for it? Harder work for the same rewards.
DOCTOR: I told you it was the fortieth century. The last great oil corporations are sucking the solar system dry to feed demand. Petrol prices have gone through the roof, of course, and the colonies that can't afford to pay are dying.

41st century[[edit source]]

MAVIC CHEN: Yes. It is my earnest hope that the solar system may continue along this path of peace, this path that was laid by the signing of the non-aggression pact of 3975. Now, in this year of 4000, we can feel justly proud of that pact.
The Battle of Zaruthstra, 4037 A.D.

42nd century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Ah, got it. The Ood Sphere, I've been to this solar system before. Years ago. Ages. Close to the planet Sense Sphere. Let's widen out. The year 4126. That is the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
NOTE: Date from The Time Traveller's Almanac

43rd century[[edit source]]

JEFFERSON: Captain. Report Officer Scootori Manista PKD, deceased. Forty three K two point one.
NOTE: Despite the Ood being freed a century prior, AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive retroactively establishes the dating system as [century]K[decade].[year]
DOCTOR: Magnificent. Oh, come on, that is splendid. You've achieved all this in how long?
OOD SIGMA: One hundred years.

44th century[[edit source]]

NOTE: Christmas eves with Eleventh Doctor, young Kazran, and Abigail.
DOCTOR: Daddy's been dead for twenty years, but you still can't get comfortable where he can see you. There's a Christmas tree in the painting, but none in this house, on Christmas Eve.
PAINTING: ELLIOT SARDICK 4302 4378

50th century[[edit source]]

CLENT: And then the glaciers will move again. Five thousand years of history crushed beneath a moving mountain of ice.
DOCTOR: Solar system, between Jupiter and Saturn. About five thousand AD. Five thousand AD?

51st century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Fifty first century. Diagmar Cluster, you're a long way from home, Mickey. Two and a half galaxies.
TEXT: MDP ARCHIVE. 19:15:06-05-5037 (WC: Pompadour)
Jack's flashback to when he lost his brother Gray as a kid.
" Laura wasn’t sure how her meagre security detail would cope with a concerted attack from someone allied to the likes of Rhom-Dutt or Sharaz Jek … "
"They were in the fifty-first century, for Pete’s sake!" (PROSE: Diamond Dogs)
DOCTOR: Fifty first century. By now you've got holovids, direct to brain downloads, fiction mist, but you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath.
DOCTOR: He's their Bishop, they're his Clerics. It's the fifty first Century. The Church has moved on.
The date on John Francis Vater's remains: 05.10.5087
DOCTOR: October the 5th!

52nd century[[edit source]]

The Luna University, 5123
KOVARIAN: So, they made you a Doctor today, did they? Doctor River Song. How clever you are.
DOCTOR: How's Stormcage?
RIVER: I'm on the first night of twelve thousand consecutive life sentences, kind of early to say.
TEXT: Stormcage Containment Facility 5145; The Royal Collection 5145; The Maldovarium 5145
NOTE: Set shortly before A Good Man Goes to War.
NOTE: Dorium Maldovar is beheaded by the headless monks, setting this after The Pandorica Opens where he still has his body.
VASTRA: The battle was two days ago. You've made a full recovery.
NOTE: The Doctor takes River back to Stormcage. She was wearing a vortex manipulator, setting this after The Pandorica Opens.
RIVER: Oh, turn it off. I'm breaking in, not out. This is River Song, back in her cell. Oh, and I'll take breakfast at the usual time. Thank you.
DOCTOR: Dorium's dead. The Monks beheaded him at Demon's Run.

54th century[[edit source]]

Mendorax Dellora (human colony) Christmas Day 5343
DROXIL: Okay, we're putting our guns on the ground. Okay? Happy now? We're stepping away from our guns. Now can we interrogate you? We're from Androzani Major. The year is 5345, and we mean you no harm. Where are you from?

55th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Tim Shaw. How long's it been?
TZIM-SHA: Three thousand, four hundred and seven years. [From 2018.]

61st century[[edit source]]

CALENDAR: 60120724
DONNA: It's the date. Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America.
NOTE: Before The Ark in Space. Year based on AUDIO: Wirrn Isle.

67th century[[edit source]]

DURKAS: 67th
DOCTOR: Oh, nice century. Bit tricky in the middle, turns out alright in the end.

85th century[[edit source]]

NOTE: Shan Shen. Date from The Time Traveller's Almanac

Far future[[edit source]]

121st century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Ten thousand years in the future. Step outside, it's the year 12005, the new Roman Empire.

161st century[[edit source]]

HARRY: Well, after ten thousand years, Sarah, he can't be in that much of a hurry.
NOTE: Earth was devastated by solar flares in 6087 according to AUDIO: Wirrn Isle.
Picks up from The Ark in Space.

171st century[[edit source]]

TEXT: 12,000 years later [from the 51st century]

216th century[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Let's go forward. Give me a number. Give me a year.
RUBY: Um, two. One. Five. Oh. Ah, six!

372nd century[[edit source]]

SIGN: Egard Lumb died here 7y2 in the year 37,166.

200,000 to the final death of Earth[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: So, it's two hundred thousand, and it's a spaceship. No, wait a minute, space station, and er, go and try that gate over there. Off you go
DOCTOR: A hundred years exactly. It's the year two-zero-zero-one-zero-zero.
DOCTOR: Oh, a long time after your period. Er, two million years or more.
Sabalom Glitz era.
DOCTOR: Segment? To use your phrase, sir, what segment are we in now?
COMMANDER: The fifty-seventh.
DOCTOR: Good gracious! We must have jumped at least ten million years.
TURLOUGH: Fleeing from the imminence of a catastrophic collision with the sun, a group of refugees from the doomed planet Earth.
DOCTOR: We can't interfere. Colony's too new, one generation at most.
NOTE: Earth's destruction mentioned here lines up with The Ark. The novelisation establishes Frontios is located at the frontier in time, which is dated circa 10,000,000 by The Book of the War.
DOCTOR: Well I'm not sure, dear boy. However, the statue's finished. That means seven hundred years must have passed since we last stood here.
DOCTOR: Other end of the universe. Twenty-three million years in the future. Oh, yes, it's a time machine too.
NOTE: Cassandra's Party.
CLARA: No, it's not that. Have we just watched the entire life cycle of Earth, birth to death?
DOCTOR: This is the year five point five slash apple slash twenty-six. Five billion years in your future, and this is the day. This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world.
DOCTOR (New Earth): So, the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted.

After the destruction of Earth[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Professor Helen Clay, University Of New Earth, year five billion and twelve.
DOCTOR: It's the year five billion and twenty-three. We're in the galaxy M87, and this? This is New Earth.
DOCTOR: Nah. Where's the fun for me? I don't want to go home. Instead, this is much better. Year five billion and fifty-three, planet New Earth. Second hope of mankind.
DOCTOR: What? The year one hundred trillion? That's impossible.
GENERAL: Gallifrey is currently positioned at the extreme end of the time continuum, for its own protection. We're at the end of the universe, give or take a star system.
DOCTOR: The end of the road. This is it, the end of everything. The last planet.
DOCTOR: The universe is over! It doesn't have a say any more! We're standing on the last ember, the last fragment of everything that ever was. As of this moment, I'm answerable to no-one!

TV stories set in unspecified eras[[edit source]]

First Doctor[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: In the future. Very much in the future. We've now reached the distant horizon of an age, an age of peace and prosperity. Now, I'm going to be off.

Second Doctor[[edit source]]

NOTE: According to the trailer, "Dr. Who begins a new adventure on the planet Vulcan in the year 2020."
DOCTOR: Where we are? Well, according to my calculations we're certainly in the future and on a planet very like the Earth.

Third Doctor[[edit source]]

Fourth Doctor[[edit source]]

c. 3000: ‘Daleks?’ Lowery looked puzzled. ‘Who hasn’t? They invaded the Earth a couple of times, and were beaten back. Every schoolkid knows about that. Haven’t heard much about them since the Movellan Wars – oh, a thousand years or more now, I should think.’ (PROSE: Mission to the Unknown)
4500: (The Dalek Handbook)
4500: (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks)
4949: "Sensorian Era. System 4X Alpha 4. Fourth quarter, 4949. Dalek and Movellan battle fleets locked in stalemate" (AUDIO: Neverland)
8740: "Destiny of the Daleks: 8,740 A.D." ("History of the Daleks", DWM 77)

Fifth Doctor[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Ah, we must be on the outer limits. The Tardis has drifted too far into the future. We'll just slip into hover mode for a while
DAVROS: Ninety years I was frozen in that. Ninety years of mind-numbing boredom.
c. 30XX: (PROSE: Mission to the Unknown)
4590: 90 years before 4590. (The Dalek Handbook)
4590: "With one end connected to the cruiser docked in Earth calendar year 4590, and the other to the warehouse at Shad Thames in 1984, travel between the two points in time was possible." (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks)
5039: 90 years after 4949. (AUDIO: Neverland)

Sixth Doctor[[edit source]]

Seventh Doctor[[edit source]]

Eleventh Doctor[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Apalapucians are the great cultural scavengers, Rory. This gallery's a scrapbook of their favourite places.
RORY: Bit of Earth, bit of alien, bit of whatever the hell that is.
NOTE: According to Neil Gaiman: "Hedgewick's World, the biggest, best and most wonderful amusement park in the galaxy, a quarter of a million years in the future"

Twelfth Doctor[[edit source]]

NOTE: Opening scene
RECEPTIONIST: I'm sorry, sir. The first available slot I have is Christmas Day in four years' time.
BILL: Are we still in the future?
DOCTOR: No. This is the past.
NOTE: During the Dalek-Movellan War
NOTE: Missy's execution on Carnathon
NOTE: Villengard

Thirteenth Doctor[[edit source]]

NOTE: Papers dated to "+135"
DOCTOR: This planet, this time period - we're in the very far future, immediate aftermath of the Cyber-Wars.

Fourteenth Doctor[[edit source]]

Fifteenth Doctor[[edit source]]

Gallifrey[[edit source]]

Karn[[edit source]]

Skaro[[edit source]]

BOY: Davros. My name is Davros.

E-Space[[edit source]]

The Doctor's TARDIS[[edit source]]

Other[[edit source]]

Parallel universes and alternate timelines[[edit source]]

Inferno universe[[edit source]]

Pete's World[[edit source]]

ROSE: February the first. Mum's birthday. Even in a parallel universe, she still loves a party."

Turn Left[[edit source]]

River Song's World[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Nothing happened. And then it kept happening. Or, if you'd prefer, everything happened at once, and it won't ever stop. Time is dying. It's going to be five oh two in the afternoon for all eternity. A needle stuck on a record.

The Name of the Doctor[[edit source]]

Orphan 55[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: Look, I know what you're thinking, but it's one possible future. It's one timeline.

The Devil's Chord[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: February 11th, 1963.
DOCTOR: Finland? That never happened. If music has gone, that means everything is changing. The whole human race is taking a different path.

73 Yards[[edit source]]

DOCTOR: The most dangerous Prime Minister in history. He led the world to the brink of nuclear... Wait, what year are you from?
RUBY: 2024.
RUBY: Yeah, and that was over a year ago.
Ruby is 30
Ruby is 40
DOCTOR: Oh. Yikes. Sorry, he was 2046. Sorry, spoilers. Forget I said anything.
TEXT: 40 years later
OLD RUBY: Don't worry. Everyone has abandoned me my whole life. But I haven't been alone for 65 years.

Empire of Death[[edit source]]

RUBY: But 2046 doesn't exist, does it?
DOCTOR: Yes, but it is preserved in death 'cos I once landed there. So it's fixed, yeah?
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