[202] “Ripper’s Curse”. Ptolemy lived 90 to 168 AD.
[203] FP: Warlords of Utopia. In our history, Commodus succeeded Marcus Aurelius in 192, and was the first in a long line of weak and/or short-lived Emperors. Roma I’s Emperors were all historical figures, and potential Emperors. Claudius Gothicus did rule and scored notable military victories, but died of plague. In Roma I, he survived to rout the Germanic tribes. Diocletian also ruled in our history.
[204] The Stone Rose
[205] “The Tides of Time”
[206] Dating “The Futurists” (DWM #372-374) - It is “the late third century”.
[207] “Seventeen centuries” before The Curse of Fenric. The novelisation likens this contest to an ancient Arabian tale that takes place in “the White City”.
[208] “A thousand years” before Marco Polo.
[209] The Masque of Mandragora
[210] The Time of the Daleks
[211] Dating Seasons of Fear (BF #30) - The date is given.
[212] “The Tides of Time”
[213] Dating The Council of Nicaea (BF #71) - The year is given. The Doctor says the TARDIS has landed “a few days before the council is set to begin”, but Athanasius more accurately says it is “the night before the council starts”. Historically, the Council opened on 20th May.
[214] Eye of Heaven (p181).
[215] Iris: Enter Wildthyme
[216] Timewyrm: Apocalypse
[217] Time and the Rani. Hypatia of Alexandria, a neo-Platonic philosopher and mathematician, lived circa 370-415 AD.
The Rani's Time Brains
The Rani kidnaps eleven geniuses before we see her plans nearing fruition in Time and The Rani. In the televised version, only three of these are named: Hypatia, Pasteur and Einstein. The rehearsal script and the novelisation both mention three more: Darwin, Za Panato and Ari Centos. The novelisation also states that the Danish physicist Niels Bohr is kidnapped.
[218] “The Tides of Time”. The date is given - this is the opening battle of the Millenium (sic) wars. See the main entry (c 1983) for more.
[219] Memory Lane
[220] The Vampires of Venice
[221] The Big Bang
[222] Day of the Moon
[223] “Millennia” before Point of Entry.
[224] The Darksmiths’ origins go back “countless generations” before The Colour of Darkness (p49), and are here arbitrarily estimated as fifteen hundred years, in accordance with at least a millennia passing after the Darksmiths were commissioned by the Krashoks (presuming said “millennia” has happened concurrently from the Darksmith’s point of view). There’s no mention of the colonists of Karagula being human.
[225] “Millennia” before The Pyralis Effect. Gallifrey is in Kasterborous, and it’s not impossible that the unnamed race that defeated the Pyralis was the Time Lords.
[226] Toy Soldiers (p208). The novel takes place in 1919, and the war on Q’ell has been going on for “fourteen hundred and five years” by that point.
[227] FP: Warlords of Utopia
[228] The Suns of Caresh
[229] Dating TW: “Rift War” (TWM #4-13) - Jack “reckons” from the carbon buildup in some grass that he chews that it’s “around 600 AD, slap bang in the middle of the Dark Ages”.
[230] The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Bede lived c.673-735, although he never went to London, only leaving Jarrow once to visit Canterbury.
[231] Companion Piece. This is a neat trick on Bede’s part, as he died in 735 and the building of Westminster Abbey didn’t start until 1050.
[232] The Banquo Legacy. It was attributed to the Silurians in White Darkness (p89).
[233] Four to Doomsday
[234] The Mark of the Rani
[235] The Tomorrow Windows
[236] “Twelve hundred and twenty-four Terran years” before First Frontier.
[237] Battlefield. The archaeologist Warmsley thinks that Excalibur’s scabbard dates “from the eighth century”.
[238] Wolfsbane
[239] I, Davros: “Purity”. In The Daleks, the Dals are cited as being forebears of the Daleks.
[240] Dating I, Davros: Innocence (I, Davros #1.1) - Davros is currently 16, so it’s thirteen years before I, Davros: Purity. Yarvell’s name is doubtless a play on “Yarvelling”, the creator of the Daleks according to The Dalek Book (1964) and the TV Century 21 comic.
[241] Dating I, Davros: Purity (I, Davros #1.2) - Davros was 16 in I, Davros: Innocence, and he’s now 29; we know this partly because the product blurb says he’s “approaching thirty”, and because his sister (two years his elder, according to Innocence) is cited as being 31.
[242] Genesis of the Daleks
[243] Dating Davros (BF #48) and I, Davros: Corruption (I, Davros #1.3) - Events pertaining to Davros having Shan killed are told in flashback in Davros and expanded upon in Corruption. Davros claims in Genesis of the Daleks, “Many times in the last fifty years, factions of the government have tried to interfere with my research here” - “here” indicating the Kaled bunker and the work of the Scientific Elite. It seems reasonable to assume that said fifty years pass between Davros schisming the Elite off from the Kaled government (as happens in Corruption) and Genesis. That matches with Davros being 30 when he’s crippled in Corruption, but his being “an old man” - owing to his life-support systems, which make him the first Kaled to enjoy a natural (if one can call it that) lifespan in ten generations - in I, Davros: Guilt.
[244] Davros and I, Davros: Corruption, drawing on sources such as the novelisations of Genesis of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks. The circumstances of how Davros came to be in his life support system are never given on screen - it’s described as “an accident”, which doesn’t directly support the idea that it was a Thal attack.
[245] Genesis of the Daleks. There’s no indication how old Davros was when he was crippled, or how much time passed between the accident and Genesis of the Daleks.
[246] Dating I, Davros: Guilt (I, Davros #1.4) - The story ends with the Mark I Dalek coming to life. The Daleks seen in Genesis of the Daleks are Mark III, so some time must pass - probably just weeks or months, but possibly some years - between the audio mini-series and the TV story.
[247] Dating Genesis of the Daleks (12.4) - The date of the Daleks’ creation is never stated on television. The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Daleks’ Master Plan and Genesis of the Daleks all have the Doctor talk of “millions of years” of Dalek evolution and history. Destiny of the Daleks, however, suggests a much shorter timeframe of “thousands of years”, and Davros has only been “dead for centuries”. The Daleks seem to have interstellar travel at least two hundred years before The Power of the Daleks (so by 1820), although War of the Daleks suggests those were time-travelling Daleks from the far future.
The dating of Genesis of the Daleks in this chronology is derived from the TV Century 21 comic strip (for full details, see the dating notes on “Genesis of Evil” [1763]).
[248] A Device of Death
[249] The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and most subsequent Dalek stories. Again, taking what the Doctor says at face value, the Daleks are set back a thousand years by the Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks.
[250] “Twelve hundred years’” before Hornets’ Nest: Hive of Horror. The Hornets’ Nest series sees the Doctor travelling through time to meet the Hornets, so that he encounters them in reverse historical order.
[251] Dating “Doctor Conkerer!” (DWM #162) - No date is given, but it’s set at the time of the Vikings.
[252] The Book of Kells. This is historical, and dates to the ninth century.
[253] TW: “The Return of the Vostok”
[254] The Drowned World. Charlemagne ruled 768 to 814. The library fire isn’t historical, and is writer Simon Guerrier’s way of establishing a “missing” Doctor Who story concerning the great works that went absent from Charlemagne’s archive, as specifically inspired by The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. In Eco’s book, a library ins
ide a monastery is said to own works by Aristotle, etc., that were formerly housed in Charlemagne’s court library. Real-life scholars aren’t quite sure, though, what works Charlemagne’s library may have contained.
[255] FP: Warlords of Utopia
[256] The Unicorn and the Wasp
[257] The Library of St John the Beheaded was mentioned in Theatre of War, and made its first appearance in the following NA, All-Consuming Fire. In that book, we learn much about the library, including the fact that it has been established for a “thousand years” (p15). The library still exists at the time of Millennial Rites. In The Empire of Glass, Irving Braxiatel acquires manuscripts for the library (p245).
[258] The Curse of Fenric. The Ancient Haemovore arrived in “ninth-century Constantinople” according to the Doctor. Ace says the inscriptions are “a thousand years old”.
[259] Melanicus has waited for “a thousand years” before “The Tides of Time”. It’s tempting to link the void he was in with “Hell”, the gap between the worlds in Doomsday. Merlin here is the Merlin from our universe, a recurring character in the DWM strip, not the future Doctor who will pose as Merlin in a parallel universe (Battlefield).
[260] Timewyrm: Revelation
[261] Sky Pirates!
[262] The Ghosts of N-Space
[263] Transit (p204).
[264] “Forty years” before The Destroyer of Delights.
[265] “Over a thousand years” before J&L: The Ruthven Inheritance.
[266] Dating The Destroyer of Delights (BF #118) - The back cover says it’s the “ninth century”, which is reiterated within the story. It’s cited as the time of Caliph al-Mutawakkil, who ruled 847-861 AD. These events presumably serve as the inspiration for “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and other stories contained within One Thousand and One Nights (vaguely dated by scholars to the ninth century) - but curiously, neither the Doctor nor either of the Guardians comments upon this.
[267] The Chaos Pool
[268] Dating “They Think It’s All Over” (IDW DW Vol. 2, #5) - The Doctor initially says they are “a thousand years” too early for 1966, so it’s 966. Then he says it’s the “ninth century”, so it’s the 800s. It’s then established that Alfred the Great is king - he ruled from 871 to 899, and it’s after the Doctor met him in such a capacity.
[269] Planet of the Dead
[270] “Centuries” before The Jade Pyramid.
[271] “Ten hundred years” before Thin Ice, during the “Third Martian Polar Epoch”.
[272] The Keeper of Traken
[273] Kiss of Death. The palace that Turlough’s family owns is “almost a thousand years” old.
[274] Ghosts of India
[275] Dating Excelis Dawns (BF Excelis series #1) - The story takes place a thousand years before Excelis Rising.
[276] Dating The Book of Kells (BF BBC7 #4.4) - The year is given. The loss and recovery of “the great Gospel of Clumnkille” - thought to be The Book of Kells - is recorded in the Annals of Ulster, although some historians date the Book’s disappearance to 1007, not 1006.
The Doctor only acknowledges his encounters with the Monk in The Time Meddler and The Daleks’ Master Plan, and seems to overlook their meetings in the tie-in media. Along those lines, he claims to have regenerated “several times” since they last met, and the Monk’s directional unit - stolen by the Doctor in Master Plan - is still faulty. Then again, the Doctor describes the Monk as “someone I thought was dead”, which doesn’t describe how matters are left in Master Plan, but is a reasonable interpretation of the Monk’s encounter with the seventh Doctor in No Future.
[277] Seasons of Fear. The meeting is also mentioned in The Tomorrow Windows. Aethelred was king of England, and lived from circa 978 to 23rd April, 1016.
[278] Invaders from Mars
[279] Transit
[280] The Tomorrow Windows
[281] Bunker Soldiers
[282] The Ghosts of N-Space
[283] Terror of the Zygons
[284] Dating Hornets’ Nest: A Sting in the Tale (BBC fourth Doctor audio #1.4) - The Doctor says it is 1039. It is midwinter.
[285] Seasons of Fear. The date is given, and it is exactly seven hundred and fifty years after the Doctor and Charley met Decurion Gralae.
[286] A thousand years before K9: Aeolian.
[287] Dating The Time Meddler (2.9) - The story takes place shortly before the Battle of Hastings (14th October, 1066), the Doctor judging it to be “late summer”. The Doctor discovers a horned Viking helmet, although the Vikings never wore such helmets.
[288] The Daleks’ Master Plan
[289] The Company of Friends: “Mary’s Story”
[290] SJA: Lost in Time
[291] SJA: The Time Capsule
[292] Vampire Science. Joanna says she was born before the end of the first millennium, but also on the day William the Conqueror died, which was in 1087.
[293] “A thousand years” before Paper Cuts.
[294] Benny: The Judas Gift
[295] Dating TimeH: Deus Le Volt (TimeH #8) - The year is given. Historically, the siege was broken on 2nd June; Honoré and Emily seem to arrive two days beforehand. “Reynald” appears to be loosely based on Raymond IV, the Count of Toulouse (circa 1041/1042-1105). He was an associate of the soldier/mystic Peter Bartholomew, who claimed to find the Spear of Longinus during a church excavation that occurred in mid-June. Faked or not, the “discovery” is credited with motivating the crusaders against their foes.
[296] Benny: The Gods of the Underworld. Venedel has crawled back to having a feudal society circa 2100, so the Argians’ millennium of decline presumably concludes before that point.
[297] “A thousand years” before Kursaal. Given the timeframe involved, the humanoids weren’t of Earth descent.
[298] The Big Bang
[299] Rat Trap. The castle and the Treaty are fictional. The Doctor seems awfully keen to enjoy the celebration of the Treaty, considering the conditions of this period make it a less-than-ideal holiday stop.
[300] Spiral Scratch. This was in “the twelfth century”.
[301] “Eight centuries” before Freakshow.
[302] Sanctuary
[303] The King of Terror
[304] “End Game” (DWM)
[305] Nightshade
[306] Dating The Krillitane Storm (NSA #36) - The year is given.
[307] The Stones of Blood
[308] The Church and the Crown
[309] Tragedy Day. Genghis Khan was born circa 1162, and died in 1227. The seventh Doctor must have delivered Genghis, as he claims in Thin Ice that he’s never delivered a child before - but does so in that story, here, and in The Settling.
[310] An Earthly Child. It’s possible that she met Khan at the same time her grandfather delivered him.
[311] The Daemons
[312] Doctor Who - The Movie
[313] Rose
[314] Borrowed Time. Either Khan or Al Capone told the Doctor this.
[315] The Left-Handed Hummingbird
[316] Timelash
[317] The Taking of Planet 5
[318] Two accounts of Stefan’s game are given, in The Nightmare Fair and Divided Loyalties. Both versions have Stefan serving with Barbarossa, but the former story has him losing a game of dice to the Toymaker after wagering a Greek family. Divided Loyalties, however, says that Barbarossa drowned after Stefan bet the Toymaker that Barbarossa could successfully swim the Bosporus.
The account is slightly at odds with established history. Frederick Barbarossa was made Holy Roman Emperor in 1155, and died in 1190 after being thrown from his horse into the Saleph River in Cilicia (part of modern-day Turkey), whereupon his heavy armour made him drown in hip-deep water. As if that weren’t enough, one chronicler claimed the shock additionally made Barbarossa have a heart attack.
[319] Dating The Crusade (2.6) - A document written for Donald Tosh and John Wiles in April/May 1965 (apparently by Dennis Spooner), “The History of Doct
or Who”, stated that the story is set between the Second and Third crusades, with the Third Crusade starting when Richard’s plan fails.
Richard is already in Palestine at the start of the story, indicating a date of around 1190. Ian claims in The Space Museum that The Crusade took place in the “thirteenth century”, but this seems to be an error on his part. The Radio Times and The Making of Doctor Who both set the story in the “twelfth century”. The Programme Guide gives a date of “1190”, The Terrestrial Index picks “1192”.
[320] Leviathan. The Doctor might well have taken lessons from Richard in some body other than his first (The Crusades), at an unspecified point in Richard’s life.
[321] Dating Krynoids: The Green Man (BBV audio #33) - King Richard is on the throne. Mention is also made of stories pertaining to the Saracen - a sign, although not a guarantee, that it’s during the Third Crusade (1189-1192).
[322] “The Tides of Time” doesn’t specify at what point of the Middle Ages Justin comes from. However, a mercenary in Castle of Fear, set in 1199, has met Justin and gives a correct description of him.
[323] “Seven years” before Castle of Fear
[324] K9: The Last Oak Tree. This possibly, but not necessarily, happened when K9 was travelling with the Doctor.
[325] The Eternal Summer
[326] “The Stockbridge Child”. The accompanying illustration suggests this was during medieval times.
[327] Dating Castle of Fear (BF #127) - The back cover and - within the story - the Doctor agree that it’s 1199. Plague of the Daleks reiterates that Castle of Fear occurs in the “twelfth century”. What’s perplexing is that the Doctor determines the year to which he and Nyssa must go based upon a statement that one of the Stockbridge residents makes in 1899 - “It’s the year when the ant by the lion was slain.” It’s a reversal of the real-life phrase “when the lion by the ant was slain”, denoting how King Richard was fatally shot by a boy wielding a crossbow, who was angered because Richard had killed his father and brothers. (Richard was shot on 25th March, 1199, and died on 6th April.) Even more strangely (unless this is a deliberate choice as part of the story’s comedy), the Doctor here says that the “ant” refers to Saladin - in real life it does no such thing, as Saladin died in 1193.
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