This adventure originates the tale of St. George and the dragon, the earliest text of which dates to the eleventh century, although George himself dates back to at least the seventh century. The Green Dragon Inn is mentioned in “The Tides of Time”.
For benefit of non-UK readers, “Mummerset” is a deliberately awful depiction in plays and films of a West Country accent. Twelfth-century Stockbridge is said to reside in Mummerset; “The Tides of Time” says that the modern-day Stockbridge is in Gloucestershire.
[328] SJA: The Mark of the Berserker
[329] Invasion of the Dinosaurs
[330] City of Death. Most fans have interpreted the last of the four Scaroths we see as a Crusader, although the DVD says it’s a “Celt”. Although Julian Glover plays both Richard the Lionheart in The Crusade and Scaroth in City of Death, it doesn’t seem likely that Scaroth posed as King Richard.
[331] “Ten years” before The King’s Demons.
[332] Option Lock
[333] “End Game” (DWM)
[334] Dating Benny: The Vampire Curse: “Possum Kingdom” (Benny collection #12b) - The year and season are given.
[335] Dating The King’s Demons (20.6) - The TARDIS readings say it is “March the fourth, twelve hundred and fifteen”.
[336] As seen in The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe.
[337] The Gallifrey Chronicles
[338] The Big Bang
[339] Dating Bunker Soldiers (PDA #39) - The Doctor says “we are in Kiev in 1240” (p16).
[340] Dating Sanctuary (NA #37) - Benny “persuaded someone to tell her that the year was 1242”.
[341] Dating Guy de Carnac: The Quality of Mercy (BBV audio #35) - The audio features Guy de Carnac from Sanctuary, but it’s not expressly said whether this is a prequel or a sequel to that book (presuming for the moment that Guy survived the Roc of the Cathares - his body is never found, after all). That said, a conversation concerning Guy and an “unrequited love” could well be a reference to Bernice. Seven years passed in the real world between the release of the two stories; the placement here somewhat arbitrarily splits the difference.
[342] FP: Warlords of Utopia
[343] The Impossible Astronaut, possibly contradicting the origin of the statues given in Eye of Heaven. The first moai on Easter Island were carved in the thirteenth century.
[344] Marco Polo. Barbara states that Marco Polo was born in “1252”, although actually it was two years later.
[345] Death in Blackpool
[346] The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
[347] The Bodysnatchers; Zygor is also named in The Zygon Who Fell to Earth.
[348] “Several centuries” before Deep Blue.
[349] Terror of the Zygons. The Zygon leader Broton tells Harry that they crashed “centuries ago by your timescale”. While disguised as the Duke, Broton later tells the Doctor that there have been sightings of the Loch Ness Monster “since the Middle Ages”, the implication being that the Zygons and Skarasen have been on Earth since then.
In Timelash, we’re made to believe that the Borad has been similarly swimming around Loch Ness from 1179 onwards, but the Borad’s death in The Taking of Planet 5 suggests he doesn’t actually contribute to the Loch Ness sightings. The Programme Guide claimed that the Zygon ship crashed in “50,000 BC”, The Terrestrial Index preferred “c.1676”.
[350] The eighth Doctor believes that the Zygon craft in The Zygon Who Fell to Earth crashed concurrent to the one that landed in Scotland in Terror of the Zygons.
[351] The Mind of Evil
[352] The Time Monster
[353] Marco Polo
[354] Birthright
[355] “Seven hundred years” before Dancing the Code.
[356] Brave New Town
[357] Marco Polo
[358] Dating The Time Warrior (11.1) - The story seems to be set either during the Crusades, as Sir Edward of Wessex talks of “interminable wars” abroad, or quite soon after the Conquest as Irongron refers to “Normans”. The Doctor tells Professor Rubeish they are in the “early years of the Middle Ages”. However, in The Sontaran Experiment, Sarah says that Linx died “in the thirteenth century”. According to The Paradise of Death, this was “eight hundred years back” (p12), and it’s “three centuries” before “Dragon’s Claw”. The Programme Guide set a date of “c.800”, but The Terrestrial Index offered “c.1190”. The TARDIS Logs said “1191 AD”, Timelink said “1272” and About Time “1190-1220”.
[359] Marco Polo
[360] Dating Asylum (PDA #42) - It’s “1278” according to the blurb, and 1266 was “twelve years previously” (p116).
[361] SJA: The Day of the Clown. The first Doctor met the Pied Piper in the TV Comic story “Challenge of the Piper” (outside the bounds of this chronology), and this may well have been the same entity.
[362] Benny: The Sword of Forever
[363] Dating Marco Polo (1.4) - Marco gives the year as “1289”. The Programme Guide gave the date as “1300”.
[364] “Voyager”
[365] Birthright
[366] Terror of the Zygons
[367] The Two Doctors. Dante lived from 1265-1321.
[368] The Face of Evil. William Tell lived in the early fourteenth century.
[369] Lords of the Storm. Robert the Bruce was one of Scotland’s greatest kings, and ruled from 1306-1329.
[370] “Centuries” before Thin Ice. The site of the Kremlin has been occupied since the second century BC, but the first stone structures were built there in the fourteenth century.
[371] “Thirteen hundred years” before Rose’s time, according to Only Human.
[372] “By Hook or by Crook”
[373] “Profits of Doom”. The Doctor doesn’t recognise him face-to-face, so they probably don’t meet at this time.
[374] TW: End of Days
[375] Benny: The Sword of Forever. Historically, Philip did move against the Knights in 1307; Pope Clement V declared the Order disbanded in 1312.
[376] Benny: The Sword of Forever. De Molay and de Charnay are historical, and were burned to death in March. In real life, Guillaume was the twenty-first Grand Master of the Knights (de Molay was the twenty third) and died during the siege of Acre in 1291. The character in The Sword of Forever, however, wasn’t born until 1292 (perhaps the one is the son of the other, born after the father’s death?).
[377] The End of Time (TV)
[378] The Gallifrey Chronicles. Ockham was a philosopher and friar during the Middle Ages. He was responsible for the principle of Occam’s Razor (also spelled “Ockham’s Razor”) and lived c.1287 to c.1349.
[379] The Time Meddler
[380] Dating Renaissance of the Daleks (BF #93) - The date is given.
[381] The Awakening, “centuries” before the village was destroyed in the English Civil War.
[382] In the travellers’ personal timelines, this occurs between Boom Town and Bad Wolf.
[383] Asylum
[384] Rat Trap
[385] SJA: The Time Capsule. This story might actually be true, even allowing for the diamond’s extra-terrestrial origins.
[386] Dating TimeH: Kitsune (TimeH #4) - It’s medieval Japan, complete with samurais, but the dating is otherwise left unsaid.
[387] Benny: The Sword of Forever
[388] “Change of Mind”. This was in 1349.
[389] “Genesis of Evil”. This was in the year 1600 of the New Skaro Calendar.
[390] Dating The Art of War (DL #9) - The story occurs in “November” (p34) in “medieval London” (p27). The TARDIS databank makes mention (p28-29) of the Black Death ravaging London in 1348, and that the population had been halved by 1350, so the story is here - a little arbitrarily - placed after that. For the Doctor and Gisella, the story concludes The End of Time (DL).
[391] The King of Terror. The Shroud is first recorded in the fourteenth century.
[392] Imperial Moon. This takes place at “611,072.26 Galactic Time Index”.
[393]
Matrix
[394] Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible
[395] Synthespians™
[396] All-Consuming Fire
[397] The Daemons
[398] TimeH: The Child of Time (p64).
[399] “A hundred years” before The Masque of Mandragora.
[400] Shadowmind
[401] The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Shada, The King of Terror. Agincourt was fought on 25th October, 1415.
[402] The Doomsday Quatrain. The Doctor refers to the man who was Duke in 1560, i.e. Cosimo de Medici. His paternal grandfather was Givoanni di Bicci de’ Medici (circa 1360 to 1429). The Borgia family (mentioned in City of Death) became prominent in politics and the church in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
[403] “Urban Myths”. The country where the restaurant is located isn’t specified, but it’s evidently where goulash was invented - originally, that would be Hungary. The Hapsburgs ruled there from 1437 to 1918, and it’s possible that the Doctor’s comment “since the time of the Hapsburgs” refers to the start of their reign.
[404] Son of the Dragon. Vlad II was killed in 1447.
[405] Four hundred years before The Beast of Orlok.
[406] “Centuries” before The Beast of Orlok.
[407] The Kingmaker. Richard III was born October 1452.
[408] The Many Hands
[409] By the Doctor’s best guess, this happened “more than two thousand years” before Cobwebs.
[410] FP: Coming to Dust. FP: The Book of the War says that the Mal’akh are monstrosities tainted by the blood of the Yssgaroth (The Pit).
[411] A Death in the Family. The year is unknown, but the Great Vowel Shift - a sea change in how the English language is pronounced - occurred at some point between 1450 and 1750.
[412] Dating The Aztecs (1.6) - According to Barbara, Yetaxa was buried in 1430. The Programme Guide dated the story “c.1200 AD”. The Terrestrial Index suggested “1480”, claiming that fifty years elapsed between Yetaxa being buried and the TARDIS landing inside the tomb. This is not supported (or contradicted) by the story itself, although Lucarotti’s novelisation is set in “1507”. Both editions of The Making of Doctor Who placed the story in “1430”. The Left-Handed Hummingbird firmly dates the story in “1454”.
[413] “Agent Provocateur”. They presumably, unlike the first Doctor in The Aztecs, don’t wind up engaged because of this.
[414] Wishing Well
[415] City of Death. Movable type was developed in China during the ninth century, but as Scaroth possessed a number of Gutenberg Bibles (printed 1453-1455), we can infer he was responsible for Europe’s development of printing.
[416] Son of the Dragon. Vlad very briefly ruled in 1448 before being cast into exile; this event must occur after he grained the throne in 1456.
[417] Matrix
[418] “Two centuries” before The Witch from the Well.
[419] Dating Son of the Dragon (BF #99) - The story begins on 17th June, 1462, the night of an infamous attack by Dracula’s forces on the Turks. Act Three opens on July 2nd, and events unfold relatively soon thereafter. The name of Dracula’s first wife is lost to history, although there’s a problem with this woman being Erimem - Dracula’s first wife bore him a son, Mihnea cel Rau, who ruled Wallachia 1508-1510. As the Doctor here says, Dracula did briefly regain his throne after this... for all of two months in 1476, before he was killed in battle.
[420] The Kingmaker. Edward and Richard were respectively born in 1470 and 1473.
[421] The Kingmaker. History says George was executed on 18th February, 1478.
[422] TW: Dead Man Walking. It’s never said what became of Faith after Death was banished, and for all anyone knows, she’s the ageless, fortune-telling little girl whom Jack consults in Dead Man Walking and TW: Fragments.
[423] “Two years” before Peri and Erimem’s arrival in The Kingmaker. The “big-eared” chap is almost certainly a veiled reference to the ninth Doctor, who apparently passes through the fifteenth century and completes this task, fulfilling the line of communication between his previous self and his companions.
[424] Or so he claims in The Impossible Astronaut. It’s entertaining to think this could be related to all the conflicting stories about the fate of the nephews of King Richard III, per Sometime Never and The Kingmaker, especially with regards the temporal shenanigans in the latter story.
[425] Dating The Kingmaker (BF #81) - Edward IV died on 9th April, 1483, and Edward V’s short-lived reign began on 18th April (he’s one of three British monarchs to have never been crowned). Peri and Erimem arrive at least three days beforehand, and work at The Kingmaker for about six months. A minor anomaly is that Henry Stafford later claims Peri and Erimem turned up “about eighteen months” before what’s clearly August 1485, meaning it’s more accurately two years plus change.
[426] Dating The Kingmaker (BF #81) - One of the Doctor’s notes to Peri and Erimem dates their arrival to 1st August, 1485. Bosworth Field was fought on 22nd August, and it’s a little puzzling to wonder how the run-up to the conflict unfolded, given that Richard III time-jumps with the Doctor to 1597 and is apparently absent some days beforehand. Henry Stafford was historically executed on 2nd November, 1483, so in the Doctor Who universe, he languishes in prison for twenty-one months beyond that point.
[427] The King of Terror
[428] Blood Harvest
[429] Project: Twilight
[430] According to Harrison Chase in The Seeds of Doom. The Wars of the Roses lasted from 1455-1485.
[431] Dating Sometime Never (EDA #67) - The date is given.
[432] Dating The Left-Handed Hummingbird (NA #21) - The date is first given on p39.
[433] The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The Doctor notes, “I haven’t been in China for four hundred years” - presumably four hundred years ago in history, as opposed to when the Doctor was four hundred years younger.
[434] Dreamland (DW)
[435] Managra. This happened “seven years” before Torquemada’s death in 1498.
[436] The Doctor has Christopher Columbus’ business card in The Two Doctors. Columbus lived 1451-1506 and discovered the New World in 1492.
[437] Eye of Heaven
[438] Cobwebs
[439] Dating The Masque of Mandragora (14.1) - It’s said that the Helix will return to Earth in five hundred years at the “end of the twentieth century”, so the story is set at the end of the fifteenth century. The second edition of The Making of Doctor Who said that the story is set in “the fifteenth century”. Hinchcliffe’s novelisation specified the date as “1492”, The Terrestrial Index and The TARDIS Logs both set the story “about 1478”. The Discontinuity Guide said it must be set “c.1470-1482 when Da Vinci was in Florence”. In SJA: Death of the Doctor, Sarah Jane would seem to remove any ambiguity about this when she says that she visited “Italy, San Martino, 1492”.
The entity that encroaches on Earth in The Eleventh Tiger (set in 1865) also seems to be the Mandragora Helix, even though the Doctor says in Masque that it’s been banished for five hundred years. There’s either another conjunction taking place that he doesn’t know about, or he’s discounting events of 1865 because he knows he already won the day then.
The novel Beautiful Chaos not only agrees that Masque of Mandragora occurs in 1492 (pgs 41, 167), it takes the added step of saying that the Doctor and Sarah fought the Helix “five hundred and seventeen years, one month, four days” (p43) prior to 15th May, 2009 - which would be very handy, if the “15th May” dating weren’t so dubious (see the dating notes for Beautiful Chaos).
[440] Beautiful Chaos
[441] SJS: Buried Secrets, SJS: Fatal Consequences and SJS: Dreamland. Sarah’s research-minded friend Natallie says that Giuliano wrote his journal in the “sixteenth century”, suggesting that Giuliano didn’t record events from The Masque of Mandragora until some years afterwards. Alternatively, it’s possible that Natallie is just guessing based upon the sketchy records at her disposal, and Giuliano wr
ote his journal before the turn of the century. A continuity glitch exists in that the Doctor doesn’t tell Sarah until the very end of The Masque of Mandragora that the Mandragora Helix will return to Earth in five hundred years, so there’s no opportunity for Giuliano to learn of this and later record it in his journal. It’s possible, though, that Giuliano - even from a distance - overhears the Doctor and Sarah’s final conversation, which would explain why he seems a bit disconcerted even before witnessing the TARDIS dematerialise. If so, however, it’s strange that Sarah so repeatedly flogs herself in Sarah Jane Smith Series 2 because her “loose lips” told Giuliano of the future, when if anything it’s the Doctor’s fault.
[442] Spiral Scratch
[443] Managra. Torquemada died 16th September, 1498.
[444] So Vile a Sin. Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, was the first European to journey by sea to India.
[445] Instruments of Darkness
[446] Absolution. The Garden of Earthly Delights is Bosch’s best-known work, painted somewhere between 1490 to 1510. The idea that the Doctor posed for this becomes even more fanciful once you realise that the depicted figures are nude.
[447] SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge. The artist’s name is spelled “Giuseppe” in the closed captioning, but “Guieseppe” in the art book Rani consults on screen.
[448] Dating The Ghosts of N-Space (MA #7) - The Doctor says it is “somewhere near the turn of the century”.
[449] Minuet in Hell
[450] The Quantum Archangel, doubtless extrapolating from use of a Stattenheim remote control in The Two Doctors, with a dash of Muppets influence.
[451] TW: “The Selkie”. Date unknown, but women on Seal Island have been aiding the Selkie for some “centuries”.
[452] “Four hundred years” before Ghosts of India.
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