1849

1849 was the year in which the writer Edgar Allan Poe died. During that year, he encountered the Doctor twice. On 2 October, the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright met Poe at a séance during which an evil entity was accidentally summoned. (PROSE: The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull) The Eighth Doctor encountered Poe while suffering from amnesia on Earth. (PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial) Time disruptions briefly changed the circumstances of Poe's death twice. The Seventh Doctor and Ace witnessed both of these disruptions. (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice)

During this year, Jedediah Thurwell was deported to Victoria, Australia. (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors)