Theory:Timeline - Thirteenth Doctor

This page lists appearances of the Thirteenth Doctor in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, and Clive Banks databanks. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Companions
After being asked to refer to him as such in The Woman Who Fell to Earth and The Ghost Monument, Ryan is able to bring himself to call Graham his granddad in It Takes You Away. Thus, any story where Ryan identifies Graham by his name is more likely to take place before It Takes You Away, while any story where he identifies him as his grandfather must take place afterwards. Stories that do not feature Ryan identifying Graham as either can take place at any point. However, entries such as Time Lapse and The Power of the Mobox show that Ryan does call Graham both by name and by "granddad" interchangeably on occasion.

A new body

 * TV: Twice Upon a Time
 * The Doctor regenerates from her previous incarnation, and is almost immediately flung out the TARDIS when it begins catching fire from damage caused by the regeneration.


 * COMIC: The Many Lives of Doctor Who
 * Set during Twice Upon a Time, both during and immediately after the Doctor's regeneration.


 * PROSE: Postscript
 * Set during Twice Upon a Time, immediately after the Doctor regenerates. The Doctor's actualised potential sends postcards to V. M. McCrimmon and Grandfather Halfling in the City of the Saved after becoming a certainty rather than a possibility.


 * TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth
 * Following on directly from Twice Upon a Time, the Doctor lands in Sheffield during September 2018 and is assisted by Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Graham and Grace O'Brien in facing Tzim-Sha of the Stenza as she recovers from her regeneration. After Grace is killed during Tzim-Sha's defeat, the Doctor uses the Stenza tech to locate the TARDIS. Teleporting away, the Doctor accidently brings Ryan, Yaz and Graham with her, leading directly into The Ghost Monument.


 * TV: The Ghost Monument
 * Rescued by Angstrom and Epzo during the Rally of the Twelve Galaxies, the Doctor, Ryan, Yaz and Graham find the TARDIS on Desolation and begin their return journey to Sheffield.


 * COMIC: The Many Lives of Doctor Who
 * Set during The Ghost Monument, with the Doctor thinking about the uncertainty of her future while standing on a rock overlooking an ocean.

Returning to Sheffield

 * TV: Rosa
 * The Doctor meets Rosa Parks during her fourteenth attempt to return Ryan, Yaz and Graham to Sheffield. Ryan, Yaz and Graham learn the mechanisms of history while preventing Krasko from altering the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.


 * PROSE: Chasing the Dawn
 * Yaz isn’t familiar with regeneration.


 * TV: Arachnids in the UK
 * The TARDIS returns to Sheffield. Graham, Ryan and Yaz all choose to join the Doctor as her companions, calling themselves Team TARDIS. The Doctor alludes to her recent regeneration, noting that she is "still figuring [herself] out".

Early Travels with Team TARDIS

 * PROSE: That's All Right, Mama
 * Set immediately after Arachnids in the UK with Team TARDIS having just had an adventure with giant spiders in a luxury hotel. The current year is 2018.


 * TV: The Tsuranga Conundrum
 * The Doctor alludes to the recent events of The Ghost Monument while facing the Pting on the Tsuranga in the 67th century.


 * COMIC: The Warmonger
 * Set between Arachnids in the UK and It Takes You Away, as the Doctor isn't attempting to reach Sheffield and Ryan is on a first-name basis with Graham.


 * PROSE: Dr. Thirteenth
 * Yaz is celebrating her birthday.


 * TV: Demons of the Punjab
 * The Doctor tells her companions about the TARDIS' telepathic capabilities when they go to the Partition of India to see Yaz's grandmother when she was younger.


 * PROSE: Einstein and the Doctor
 * Yaz recalls the events of Demons of the Punjab.


 * TV: Kerblam!
 * Graham implies that a month has passed since The Woman Who Fell to Earth. The Doctor is still figuring out the new TARDIS controls.


 * COMIC: The Greatest Movie Never Made
 * Ryan references the events of Kerblam!, saying he doesn't want to visit another big warehouse.


 * TV: The Witchfinders
 * Team TARDIS is trying to get the coronation of Elizabeth I, but end up in 17th century Lancashire instead, where they face the Morax with James I.


 * PROSE: Gatecrashers
 * Team TARDIS have just left 17th century England, setting this immediately after The Witchfinders.


 * COMIC: Where's the Doctor?
 * Team TARDIS attends the coronation of Elizabeth II.


 * PROSE: The Good Doctor
 * The Doctor and her companions have had many adventures together and are settled in each other's company. Ryan almost calls Graham his granddad, but stops himself, setting this shortly before It Takes You Away.


 * PROSE: Molten Heart
 * While he is alone, Ryan briefly refers to Graham as his granddad, setting this shortly before It Takes You Away. The Doctor has been meaning to talk to Ryan about his tendency to push buttons.


 * PROSE: Combat Magicks


 * TV: It Takes You Away
 * After an encounter with the Solitract helps Graham come to better terms with Grace's death, Ryan calls him "granddad" for the first time after they both open up about their grief.


 * PROSE: Citation Needed
 * The Encyclopedia Gallifreya identifies a threat from Tzim-Sha's alliance with the Ux, setting this immediately before The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos.


 * TV: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
 * Team TARDIS face Tzim-Sha for the first time since The Woman Who Fell to Earth, with Graham considering executing him until he and Ryan decide to imprison him in a stasis chamber instead. Ryan tells Graham he loves him for the first time, and reinforces that he thinks of him as his family.


 * TV: Resolution
 * While celebrating various New Year's Day events in history, Team TARDIS fights a reconnaissance scout Dalek on 1 January 2019 with Lin and Mitch, which is the Thirteenth Doctor's first encounter with a Dalek since her regeneration, and the first encounter with them for Ryan, Graham and Yaz. During the conflict, Ryan's dad, Aaron Sinclair, re-enters Ryan's life with the promise of being a better father, and is introduced to Yaz and the Doctor. After they defeat the Dalek, Ryan and Aaron reconnect, but Aaron declines an invitation to join Team TARDIS, instead opting for Ryan to contact him upon his return to Earth.

Going everywhere

 * PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13
 * It has been months since Graham first entered the TARDIS, and Ryan refers to him as his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away. The Doctor tells her companions about the TARDIS's chameleon circuit. Yaz is 20-years-old, setting this after Dr. Thirteenth.


 * PROSE: Time Lapse
 * Though Ryan calls Graham by his name, the present day is given as 28 April 2019, setting this after Resolution. Ryan and Yaz learn about the Time Agency for the first time, setting this before A New Beginning.


 * COMIC: A New Beginning
 * The Doctor alludes to her recent regeneration, and Graham, Yaz and Ryan are still learning about the Doctor and how she operates. Ryan knows from experience that the Doctor is a "stickler" about her no-weapons policy. Yaz feels ill-equipped to handle situations on her own, and is surprised when the Doctor asks her to take over a situation without her. Graham indicates that the Doctor has been acting as a guide for them, across several adventures, but notes that "it still ain't easy", and he is also still getting used to the TARDIS's dimensional transcendentalism.


 * COMIC: Herald of Madness
 * Graham recalls Team TARDIS meeting "big names in history", and how most those encounters involved "something dodgy".


 * COMIC: Hidden Human History
 * According to the Doctor, either one week or ten weeks have passed since A New Beginning. Ryan refers to Graham as his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away, with the Doctor also still paranoid about the Woolly Rebellion. Team TARDIS find out that Schulz and Perkins have joined the Time Agency. 2019 is the present day, setting this after Resolution.


 * COMIC: Old Friends
 * The Doctor has not seen since The Doctor Falls, setting this before The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone.


 * COMIC: The Power of the Mobox
 * Ryan refers to Graham as his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away. The Doctor claims to have run out of dates to visit the Beatles without crossing her time stream.


 * COMIC: Mistress of Chaos
 * Berakka Dogbolter skews the events of The Warmonger and The Power of the Mobox to present the Doctor as a villain, and Team TARDIS encounter the Herald from Herald of Madness again.


 * COMIC: Meet the Fam!
 * Ryan refers to Graham as his granddad, setting this after It Takes You Away, and Yaz alludes to the recent events of A New Beginning. The events of this story are a false memory implanted into the minds of Team TARDIS by Mr Henderson.


 * COMIC: Holiday Special
 * Yaz and Ryan talk about the Corsair, suggesting a setting shortly after Old Friends.


 * PROSE: The Pythagoras Problem
 * Team TARDIS meet Pythagoras and discover that the Doctor's sunglasses did not belong to him, prompting the Doctor to set the coordinates for Hollywood to search for Audrey Hepburn, leading directly into Mission of the KaaDok.


 * PROSE: Mission of the KaaDok
 * Graham recalls meeting Elvis Presley in That's All Right, Mama.

Death

 * PROSE: Contents
 * Alone in her TARDIS, the Doctor regenerates into her next incarnation.

Currently unplaced

 * These entries are placed here due to being released early in this Doctor's tenure, and not having sufficient enough evidence to be placed in any chapter of this Doctor's run.

Travelling alone

 * PROSE: The Death List


 * PROSE: The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone
 * Travelling on her own, the Doctor serves as a museum curator in Venice, and rescues Antonia when abandons her in the 14th century. She leaves the museum immediately afterwards.


 * PROSE: Rose
 * The Doctor is depicted in a photograph running away from a giant frog outside of Buckingham Palace.


 * PROSE: The Day of the Doctor
 * The Doctor encounters the Moment in Henry VIII's third favourite garden, and then again later in the banana groves on Villengard. She is travelling alone.


 * PROSE: The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street
 * During Christmas 1966, the Doctor appears in Dublin to help Patricia understand her encounter with the Judoon. She is travelling alone.


 * WC: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
 * The Doctor helps Santa Claus deliver Christmas presents in the TARDIS after his sleigh breaks down. She appears to be travelling alone.


 * PROSE: Scratchman
 * The Doctor meets with her fourth incarnation to remind him the importance of being the Doctor. She appears to be travelling alone, and tries on a scarf for the first time, setting this before Resolution.

Awaiting placement

 * These entries are placed here until evidence presents itself that provides a clue as to where they happen in relation to other entries. Some of these are part of ongoing storylines that could present evidence towards the end of the plot.


 * PROSE: Who-Dini?