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[1213] “The Fallen”
[1214] Year of the Pig. Toby’s fan Alice Bultitude later shows him film footage of this event - even though 1903 is rather early for footage of this kind.
[1215] Jubilee
[1216] Dating The Sleep of Reason (EDA #70) - We’re told it’s “Thursday 24th December 1903” at the start of this section (p22).
[1217] “One hundred years” before SJS: Buried Secrets.
[1218] Dating Freakshow (BF promo #9, DWM #419) - The year is given.
[1219] Only Human
[1220] One hundred years before Catch-1782.
[1221] The Romans
[1222] Mentioned in Planet of the Spiders, Revenge of the Cybermen, “Voyager”, The Pit, Head Games, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Devil Goblins from Neptune, The Church and the Crown, Eye of Heaven, Independence Day, Dreamland (DW) and “Don’t Step on the Grass”. There’s no date given in any of those stories. Houdini lived 1874-1926.
[1223] The Vampires of Venice
[1224] The Ribos Operation. No date is given, but this is presumably the magician John Neville Maskelyne (1839-1917, and also mentioned in Camera Obscura), although it could be his grandson, the magician Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973).
[1225] “Centuries” before The Murder Game, The Final Sanction.
[1226] The Tomorrow Windows. Peter Pan was published in 1905.
[1227] Casualties of War. Pankhurst was a founder of the British suffragette movement. She was chained to Number Ten in 1905.
[1228] Smith and Jones
[1229] The Stones of Blood. No date given. Einstein lived 1879-1955, publishing his Special and General Theories of Relativity in 1905 and 1915 respectively. He also appeared in Time and the Rani, but it isn’t made clear if he and the Doctor already knew one another.
[1230] The Magic Mousetrap
[1231] TW: Miracle Day
[1232] “Final Sacrifice”
[1233] Dating “Final Sacrifice” (IDW DW Vol. 1, #13-16) - A caption tells us it’s “1906”. Lewis says “the British Empire will rise again”, but actually, it was still in good shape in 1906. The tripod is presumably a reference to The War of the Worlds; the remains of the “giant metal man” recovered from the Thames presumably refers to the CyberKing (The Next Doctor), in defiance of it looking on screen as if it was completely disintegrated.
[1234] TW: The Twilight Streets
[1235] Dating The House That Jack Built (TW novel #12) - In the corrected timeline, a report written by Alice Guppy concerning temporal flux that occurred “last night” - the same night that Jack first seduces Alison, it seems - at Jackson Leaves is dated to “17th March, 1906”.
[1236] TW: The Twilight Streets (p133). The equipment doesn’t seem able to revive frozen people, so it presumably compliments the cryo-tech that Torchwood has been using since Victorian times, as evidenced with Jack in 1901.
[1237] This event is only mentioned in The Torchwood Archives, which is a useful secondary source but hardly sacrosanct. However, until another explanation is offered, this might well explain the fate of Emily Holroyd’s Torchwood crew.
[1238] Dating The Chimes of Midnight (BF #29) - The date is given.
[1239] All-Consuming Fire
[1240] Vampire Science
[1241] Emily says she is “19” in “Silver Scream”.
[1242] There’s conflicting dates about this - Gerald’s biography on Torchwood.org.uk says he took charge in 1907; The Torchwood Archives says it was 1910.
[1243] Pier Pressure
[1244] Dating TimeH: The Sideways Door (TimeH #10) - The Academy rejected Hitler twice, in 1907 and 1908.
[1245] Dating FP: Warlords of Utopia (FP novel #3) - Marcus was born on 8th January 2661, by the Roman calendar, which measures from the founding of Rome (753BC). So Scriptor was born on 8th January, 1908. This is the same day, in our version of history, that William Hartnell was born.
[1246] The Wages of Sin
[1247] Warlock (p353).
[1248] Dalek
[1249] SJA: Enemy of the Bane
[1250] Tales from the Vault
[1251] Dating Birthright (NA #17) - Page 202 cites the meteorite strike’s historic date of 30th June, 1908. On the multiple events attributed to the Tunguska incident, see the Unfixed Points in Time sidebar. Alternatively, perhaps the location is a space-time nexus (akin to the Cardiff Rift) that drew several items to the same point, where many of them exploded together.
[1252] Estimated as three generations prior to Kiss of Death.
[1253] TW: Small Worlds. A caption gives the date. The Torchwood website said this was when Jack was a time-travelling conman, but as he’s commanding troops and survives the fairy attack, it’s more likely that this is the Jack who lived through the twentieth century.
[1254] Brotherhood of the Daleks. The most famous of Peary’s expeditions was in 1909.
[1255] Some “years” before Year of the Pig
[1256] Dating Birthright (NA #17) - It is “Thursday 15 April 1909” on p23, and Benny has been stranded “two months” (p24) by then. She departs on “24 April” (p203).
[1257] Dating Sting of the Zygons (NSA #13) - The TARDIS lands “16 September 1909” and the adventure takes at least three days.
[1258] Dating Paradox Lost (NSA #48) - The days are provided at the start of each relevant chapter.
[1259] “A century” prior to TW: Ghost Train, although it isn’t especially clear what this means.
[1260] The English Way of Death (p46).
[1261] TW: Slow Decay
[1262] TW: Department X
[1263] “One hundred years” before SJA: The White Wolf.
[1264] Dating The Catalyst (BF CC #2.4) - The year isn’t given, but the Douglas family lives in an Edwardian house, and comes across as an Edwardian family. The suffragette movement (which peaked in 1912) is topical enough for Lady Douglas to view it with contempt. Douglas’ first name, “Joshua”, isn’t mentioned until The Time Vampire.
It’s here said that Joshua travelled with a Doctor who was an “old man”; The Time Vampire specifies that it’s the third Doctor (a “white-haired man who wore a bright red jacket”). Joshua travelled with the Doctor for about a decade - such a massive duration of time in the third Doctor’s lifetime is most likely to have occurred in the interim between The Green Death and The Time Warrior, when he’s no longer exiled, companionless and possibly - in wake of Jo Grant’s departure - looking for a reason to spend some time away from Earth.
[1265] She is 21 according to the sleeve notes of Hornets’ Nest: The Dead Shoes.
[1266] Pyramids of Mars
[1267] The Stones of Blood
[1268] The Impossible Astronaut
[1269] TW: From Out of the Rain
[1270] Dating Pyramids of Mars (13.3) - Laurence Scarman gives the date as “nineteen hundred and eleven”.
[1271] The War Games
[1272] Ghost Light
[1273] “Eighty-five” years before The Dying Days (p175).
[1274] The Nightmare Fair. Imperial China came to an end in 1912. The Toymaker’s interest in China is doubtless meant to explain his attire.
[1275] The Algebra of Ice (p13). Oates died 17th March, 1912.
[1276] The Doctor mentions the Titanic in Robot, but tells Borusa in The Invasion of Time that “it had nothing to do with me”. The ninth Doctor’s involvement with the Titanic was cited in Rose and The End of the World.
[1277] Dating The Left-Handed Hummingbird (NA #21) - The story takes place on the Titanic, and the date is confirmed on p221.
[1278] Neverland. She was eighteen years, five months and twenty-one days old when she met the Doctor (in Storm Warning), according to The Chimes of Midnight. However, that would seem to mean that Charley was born 14th April (the night the iceberg struck Titanic) as opposed to 15th April (when Titanic went under).
[1279] Dating The Suffering (BF CC #4.7) - It’s “the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twelve”. This particular Hyde Par
k rally seems to be fictional; other suffrage rallies took place there in real life, as when 250,000 people marched there in June 1908.
[1280] Dating Graceless: The Fog (Graceless #1.2) - Amy procures a copy of The Manchester Guardian dated to “Wednesday, 6th of November, 1912”, which is “a week” after the story takes place. She and Zara arrive in Compton the night before the catastrophe.
[1281] “A year” after Graceless: The Fog.
[1282] “Some fifty years” before Winter for the Adept.
[1283] Benny: The Relics of Jegg-Sau. Lewis, a co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, lived 1882-1957. His work was exhibited as early as 1912.
[1284] From Torchwood.org.uk and The Torchwood Archives. Childs is seen in the photograph of the 1918 Torchwood in TW: To the Last Man, alongside Gerald Carter, Harriet Derbyshire, Douglas Caldwell and Dr Charles Quinn.
[1285] Dating Year of the Pig (BF #89) - The year is given, and specified on the back cover. Proust lived 1871-1922, and Swann’s Way - his seven-volume, semi-autobiographical novel - was published between 1913 and 1927. The Ostend gift shop run by James Ensor’s mother is historical, and some items in the store inspired Ensor’s painting.
[1286] Just War
[1287] Lungbarrow, Vampire Science.
[1288] Dating Human Nature (TV)/The Family of Blood (X3.8-3.9) - Martha shows the Doctor a newspaper dated “Monday November 10th 1913”, and a poster for the Annual Dance - which occurs the following day - yields the date of “November 11th”. The Doctor has been on Earth “two months”, so since early September.
[1289] Silver Nemesis
[1290] Utopia
[1291] Demon Quest: Sepulchre
[1292] Benny: Secret Histories: “A Gallery of Pigeons”
[1293] Dating Human Nature (NA #37) - It is “April” (p17) “1914” (p16).
Are There Two Human Natures, Now?
Well, yes. The 2007 television story Human Nature/The Family of Blood is an adaptation of the New Adventures novel Human Nature, both written by Paul Cornell.
In varying degrees, the new series has done this four other times so far: Dalek was based on elements of Jubilee (a Big Finish audio also by Rob Shearman), Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel resulted from an attempt to adapt the audio Spare Parts by Marc Platt (the finished product was a different story altogether, but Platt still received a credit), The Lodger (TV) came about when Gareth Roberts revamped his tenth Doctor DWM comic of the same name, and Steven Moffat used the central idea and the name of the main character of his Annual 2006 story (“What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow”) as the basis of Blink. All four of these examples are clearly different stories - the Cyberman ones explicitly take place in different universes, in fact - and it’s easy enough to believe they could all happen to the Doctor, given a little coincidence.
The idea of coincidence is stretched to and probably beyond breaking point by the two Human Natures, however. There’s nothing in the TV story to explain how both could happen. Yet this chronology counts both stories, as it counts both Shadas, so some explanation is probably needed.
There are a number of possibilities:
1) Both happened, and it’s all a coincidence. There are differences, some of them pretty serious ones: they take place in different years; the school is called Hulton in the novel and Farringham in the TV story; the Doctor is in a different incarnation with a different companion and becomes human for a different reason; he fights different aliens. The Joan Redferns he falls for are different ages and have different histories. So the Doctor has a similar adventure twice - luckily, it’s one that involves him losing his memory, so the second version of “John Smith”, at least, wouldn’t notice the redundancy.
2) Both happened, and it’s not a coincidence. We’re told in the TV story that the TARDIS chose the landing point. Perhaps it’s deliberately picked a situation that “worked” in similar circumstances. It seems a little odd - if not actively cruel - for the TARDIS to pick on another Joan Redfern, though.
3) The original was erased from history… possibly as a result of the Time War, the events of the novel Human Nature no longer “happened” (this does not automatically suppose that the whole of New Adventures did not “occur”, however). The Big Finish version of Shada establishes that in this situation, there would be a timeline gap that needs filling, but that a different incarnation of the Doctor can play the part.
[1294] No Man’s Land. Dudgeon says the Mons conflict started 22nd August, 1914, although some resources say it technically was initiated on the 23rd. Real-life soldiers did report seeing the angels that Dudgeon describes, but they’re commonly regarded as the result of battle trauma, urban legends and perhaps deliberately targeted propaganda.
[1295] TW: Consequences: “The Wrong Hands”. Machen, a Welsh author responsible for the legend of the Angels of Mons, lived 1863-1947.
[1296] Matrix
[1297] Per Torchwood.org.uk.
[1298] Dating Project: Twilight (BF #23) - The exact days are given.
[1299] Brotherhood of the Daleks
[1300] The Left-Handed Hummingbird (p58).
[1301] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW DW mini-series #2) - The date is given. Private Benton may be an ancestor (the grandfather?) of UNIT’s Sergeant Benton.
[1302] TW: Trace Memory
[1303] Recorded Time and Other Stories: “Paradoxicide”. The battle was 22nd April to 25th May, 1915.
[1304] TW: The Undertaker’s Gift. The book is a little contradictory concerning Morgan’s abduction/death - it’s said on page 90 that Torchwood investigated his disappearance after the war in 1919, and yet when his kidnapping is retroactively prevented, page 239 claims that “he was dead by 1915”.
[1305] Dating The Sirens of Time (BF #1) - The date is given.
[1306] Dating White Darkness (NA #15) - “On the wall, a calendar of 1915 had just been turned to the August page” (p22).
[1307] The Cabinet of Light (p85).
[1308] Just War
[1309] “Twenty years” before The Abominable Snowman.
[1310] Dating “The First” (DWM #386-389) - The exact days are given. The expedition is historical, and renowned as the last great (albeit failed) crossing of Antarctica.
[1311] “The Age of Ice”, “The Crimson Hand”.
[1312] Dating Players (PDA #21) - The date is given (p69).
[1313] The Wages of Sin
[1314] The Magic Mousetrap. The brothers started performing “before the war”, but the Empire Theatre didn’t open until April 1915, as a music hall starring Marie Lloyd.
[1315] Human Nature (NA)
[1316] The Family of Blood
[1317] Storm Warning
[1318] Eater of Wasps
[1319] Let’s Kill Hitler. Presumably Rasputin wasn’t the target of their attack, as they were impersonating him.
[1320] FP: The Book of the War
[1321] Dating The Wages of Sin (PDA #19) - The date is given (p21). Zagreus confirms that the Doctor has met Rasputin.
[1322] Dating The Roof of the World (BF #59) - It’s 1917 according to the back cover.
[1323] Storm Warning
[1324] The Devil Goblins from Neptune
[1325] Singularity
[1326] Dating No Man’s Land (BF #89) - The year is given.
[1327] Planet of Giants
[1328] The War Games
[1329] The Sea Devils
[1330] Delta and the Bannermen
[1331] Divided Loyalties
[1332] Eternity Weeps
[1333] Byzantium!, The King of Terror.
[1334] The Empire of Death. Luckner lived 1881-1966.
[1335] Mad Dogs and Englishmen
[1336] Storm Warning. The Treaty of Versailles was signed 28th June, 1919.
[1337] Torchwood.org.uk. Harriet appears in TW: To the Last Man.
[1338] TW: Small Worlds
[1339] Dating The Way Through the Woods (NSA #45) - It’s “autumn 1917, shortly after cl
osing time” (p19).
[1340] FP: The Book of the War, FP: Warring States.
[1341] Assassin in the Limelight
[1342] FP: The Book of the War, FP: Warring States (p52).
[1343] The Coming of the Terraphiles
[1344] Sontarans: Old Soldiers
[1345] Dating Casualties of War (EDA #38) - The date is given (p7).
[1346] Eater of Wasps
[1347] Pier Pressure. The armistice with Germany was signed in France on 11th November, 1918.
[1348] Dating TW: To the Last Man (TW 2.3) - The year is given. Tommy is 24 and was born 7th February, 1894, so events in 1918 must occur after that day. The Torchwood Archives claims that Tommy was killed on 28th October, 1918, so events in To the Last Man - set three weeks beforehand - presumably occur in the same month.
[1349] Dating TW: “Rift War” (TWM #4-13) - The year is given.
[1350] Birthright, Casualties of War.
[1351] “Twelve years” before The English Way of Death (p83).
[1352] The Magic Mousetrap
[1353] Matrix
[1354] Dating The Memory Cheats (BF CC #6.3) - The month and year is given.
[1355] Dating Toy Soldiers (NA #42) - The main action of the book starts “25 September 1919” (p39).
[1356] TW: To the Last Man. Harriet is said to be killed “the year after” an undated photo of Gerald Carter’s Torchwood team is taken; The Torchwood Archives dates her death to 1919, confirming that the photo was taken in 1918. There’s conflicting reports of when Gerald stops leading Torchwood Cardiff - Torchwood.org.uk says he held himself responsible for Harriet’s death and “retired from active service soon afterwards”, but The Torchwood Archives says he remained in charge until 1926.
[1357] Aliens of London. No date is given, but Lloyd George was Prime Minister 1916-1922.
[1358] The Roundheads
[1359] Dying in the Sun
[1360] “The Final Chapter”
[1361] Scaredy Cat
[1362] He’s 29 in TimeH: The Tunnel at the End of the Light (p16), which appears to take place in early 1950 - although he might have already had a birthday, in which case he was born in 1921.
[1363] TimeH: The Sideways Door
[1364] Dating Blink (X3.10) - Benjamin’s newspaper names the day and year.