Theory:Timeline - River Song

This page lists appearances of River Song, aka Melody Pond in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur in each of these stories, as well as the narrative feature of CON: When Time Froze, River Song: Her Story, which states her entire history up to the airdate of that Doctor Who Confidential episode. We have attempted to build a concise timeline from these observations.

Limiting factors
to be added

Series basics
River Song has only appeared in a handful of Doctor Who television stories, but she is noteworthy for having met the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor, as well as her parents, Amy Pond and Rory Williams in an anachronic order. As a result, the audience also sees her in an order different from how she experiences things. There are also several stories where as many as three Rivers at different points in her timestream, appear.

For the sake of clarity, her first incarnation will be referred to as "little girl" or "baby" to differentiate from her third, which dominates her appearances in the Doctor Who universe.

Timeline

 * DW: A Good Man Goes to War
 * As a baby.


 * DW: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon
 * As a little girl in 1969 and 1970.


 * DW: Let's Kill Hitler
 * Set decades after Day of the Moon, but resolves the final scene of that story. River enrolls at Luna University.


 * DW: Closing Time
 * DW: The Wedding of River Song
 * DW: The Impossible Astronaut
 * The Wedding of River Song directly follows Closing Time. Her scenes from The Wedding of River Song at 2011 Lake Silencio take place near her future self. The Impossible Astronaut overlaps these events. River is imprisoned at Stormcage following The Wedding of River Song.


 * DW: Last Night
 * One River is new to adventures in the TARDIS and is new to the word "spoilers".


 * DW: A Good Man Goes to War
 * DW: The Impossible Astronaut
 * DW: The Wedding of River Song
 * The Impossible Astronaut features the older River who sees her past self at the lakeside in 2011. The Wedding of River Song overlaps with these events.


 * DW: Day of the Moon
 * Second part to The Impossible Astronaut's story.


 * DW: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
 * DW: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone
 * River is not yet a professor. She refers to the events of The Pandorica Opens to the Eleventh Doctor, who hasn't yet witnessed them.


 * DW: The Wedding of River Song (final scene)
 * Immediately follows the events of Flesh and Stone.


 * DW: Last Night
 * One of the Doctors is taking River to the Singing Towers of Darillium, which is the last time River sees the Doctor before Silence in the Library.


 * DW: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead

Unplaced

 * DW: First Night
 * DW: Last Night
 * DW: Bad Night
 * VG: The Eternity Clock