Theory:Timeline - 21st century

This page lists the order of stories set on Earth in the 21st century. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. It is assumed that if "Modern Day" stories do not provide any information on when it is placed (day, month, year) then it probably takes place when the story was released. Any stories set on Earth in an alternate timeline or universe will not be listed.

2000
January
 * TV: Doctor Who: The Movie
 * Most of this story takes place in 1999, but the ending takes place in the new millenium.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten: Misdirection
 * The millennium countdown on the Eiffel Tower displays "AD 2000".

February March June
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time #8
 * AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy
 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

2001
January
 * COMIC: The Fallen

2002
February July August September October November
 * AUDIO: The Fearmonger
 * AUDIO: Comeback
 * AUDIO: The Tao Connection
 * AUDIO: Test of Nerve
 * AUDIO: Ghost Town
 * AUDIO: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre

2003
January April August December
 * AUDIO: Jubilee (final scene)
 * AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * AUDIO: Catch-1782 (modern scenes)

2004
November December
 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus
 * PROSE: Spookasem
 * PROSE: Last Minute Shopping

2005
April March
 * COMIC: The Flood
 * TV: Rose
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: The End of the World (Rose calls Jackie who is in modern day)
 * AUDIO: One Rule

2006
March May September November December
 * TV: Aliens of London/World War Three (exactly 1 year after Rose)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * PROSE: Only Human
 * TV: Boom Town
 * TV: The Parting of the Ways (Rose looks into the heart of the TARDIS in modern day)
 * TV: The Christmas Invasion 
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)

2007
January February March April May June July August September October November December
 * TV: New Earth Leaves home at the beginning of the episode.
 * TV: School Reunion
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters
 * TV: Blink
 * TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
 * TV: Everything Changes
 * TV: Day One
 * TV: Ghost Machine
 * TV:  Cyberwoman
 * TV:  Small Worlds 
 * TV:  Countrycide 
 * TV: The Family of Blood (final scene)
 * TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts
 * TV: They Keep Killing Suzie 
 * TV: Random Shoes
 * TV: Out of Time
 * TV: The Runaway Bride

2008
January February March April The Year That Never Was May June July August September December Cracked Timeline
 * TV: Combat
 * PROSE: Speech Day
 * TV: Captain Jack Harkness
 * TV: End of Days
 * TV: Utopia (opening scene)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * TV: Invasion of the Bane/ PROSE: Invasion of the Bane
 * TV: Revenge of the Slitheen
 * TV: Smith and Jones
 * TV: The Lazarus Experiment
 * TV: 42 (phone call to modern day)
 * TV: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
 * PROSE: The Story of Martha
 * TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
 * TV: Eye of the Gorgon
 * TV: Sleeper
 * TV: To the Last Man
 * TV: Warriors of Kudlak
 * TV: Meat
 * TV: Adam
 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * TV: The Lost Boy
 * TV: Reset
 * TV: Dead Man Walking
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * TV: Voyage of the Damned
 * TV: The Eleventh Hour

2009
January February
 * TV: A Day in the Death
 * TV: Something Borrowed
 * TV: From Out of the Rain
 * TV: Adrift 
 * TV: Fragments (TV story)/Exit Wounds (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Partners in Crime 
 * TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky 
 * TV: Dalek
 * Daleks are not commonly known.

March April May May June
 * TV: The Stolen Earth//Journey's End
 * TV: The Last Sontaran
 * TV: Planet of the Dead
 * TV: The Day of the Clown
 * TV: Secrets of the Stars
 * TV: The Mark of the Berserker
 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: Enemy of the Bane
 * TV: Prisoner of the Judoon
 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic
 * TV: The Eternity Trap
 * TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge
 * TV: The Gift
 * Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer are doing GCSEs.

September
 * TV: Children of Earth
 * Epilogue in March 2010.

October November
 * COMIC: Revolutions of Terror
 * COMIC: Echo
 * COMIC: The Fountains of Forever/Spiral Staircase
 * Items from the Vault are sold in an auction.

December
 * The End of Time All in modern day. Donna's wedding in March 2010.

2010
January June September October November December Cracked Timeline
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens (TV story)/The Big Bang (TV story) (Amy and Rory's wedding)
 * TV: The Nightmare Man (TV story) 
 * TV: The Vault of Secrets (TV story)
 * TV: Death of the Doctor (TV story)
 * TV: The Empty Planet (TV story)
 * TV: Lost in Time (TV story)
 * TV:Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)
 * TV: The Eleventh Hour (ending scene)
 * TV: Flesh and Stone (ending scene)
 * TV: The Vampires of Venice (TV story) (opening scene)
 * TV: Vincent and the Doctor (TV story) (scenes in the Musée d'Orsay)
 * TV: The Lodger
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens (TV story)/The Big Bang (TV story) (modern day scenes)

2011
March April May June July August September December
 * TV: The New World (TV story)
 * TV: Rendition (TV story)
 * TV: Dead of Night (TV story)
 * TV: Escape to LA (TV story)
 * TV: Closing Time (TV story)
 * TV: The Impossible Astronaut (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Wedding of River Song (TV story)
 * TV: The Categories of Life (TV story)
 * TV: A Good Man Goes to War (TV story) Amy and Rory dropped off in modern day at the end.
 * TV: The Middle Men (TV story)
 * TV: Immortal Sins (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: End of the Road
 * AUDIO: Tales from the Vault
 * TV: Let's Kill Hitler (TV story) (opening scene)
 * TV: The Gathering (TV story)
 * TV: The Blood Line (TV story)
 * TV: Night Terrors (TV story)
 * TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story) (ending scene)

2012
April May June July August September December
 * TV: Pond Life (April)
 * TV: Pond Life (May)
 * TV: Pond Life (June)
 * TV: Pond Life (July)
 * TV: Fear Her (TV story)
 * TV: Pond Life (August)
 * TV: Asylum of the Daleks (TV story) (opening)
 * TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story) (modern day scenes)

2013
March April May July
 * TV: The Bells of Saint John (TV story)
 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Crimson Horror (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Nightmare in Silver (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Name of the Doctor (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (first July)
 * Kate Stewart's first meeting with the 11th Doctor.

October November December
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (October)
 * TV: The Day of the Doctor (TV story)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (December)
 * TV: The Time of the Doctor (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV:Deep Breath (ending scene)

2014
January February March June July August October November December
 * TV: Into the Dalek (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Listen (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Time Heist (opening scene)
 * TV: The Caretaker
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (June)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (second July)
 * TV: Flatline
 * COMIC: The Fractures
 * TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * TV: Dark Water/Death in Heaven
 * TV: Last Christmas

2015
July September October November
 * COMIC: The Hyperion Empire
 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)/The Witch's Familiar (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Woman who Lived (final scene)
 * AUDIO: The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web (part 1)
 * AUDIO: The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web (parts 2,3,4)
 * TV: The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
 * It has been approximately two years since Day of the Doctor.


 * TV: Face the Raven
 * TV: Hell Bent (flashback)
 * TV: Hell Bent

2020
Cracked Timeline
 * TV: The Hungry Earth (TV story)/Cold Blood (TV story)

2048
April
 * COMIC: Blood and Ice

2049
October
 * TV: Kill the Moon

2059
November
 * TV: The Waters of Mars