24 December

Traditional date of Christmas Eve on Earth.

Events

 * 1851: The Tenth Doctor encountered Jackson Lake, who mistakenly thought he was the Doctor, and helped to expose and foil a plan by the Pete's World Cybermen to construct the CyberKing. (DW: The Next Doctor)
 * 1869: The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered Charles Dickens in Cardiff. (DW: The Unquiet Dead)
 * 1938: The Eleventh Doctor was stuck in a spaceship in Earth's orbit. He escaped and fell to Earth, only to be saved by Madge Arwell.
 * 1941: Madge, Cyril and Lily Arwell unintentionally had an adventure with the Eleventh Doctor when meaning to visit Cyril and Lily's uncle.
 * 1983: Jason Kane, future husband of Bernice Summerfield, was born in England. (NA:Return of the Living Dad)
 * 2006: The newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor crashed the TARDIS into the Powell Estate on the same day that Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith were attacked by Robot Santas. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
 * 2007: The wedding of Donna Noble and Lance Bennett was interrupted. (DW: The Runaway Bride)
 * 2008:A Replica of the RMS Titanic nearly crashed into Buckingham Palace but was stopped by the Tenth Doctor. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)
 * 2009: The Master, recently resurrected on Earth by the Cult of Saxon, used a device called the Immortality Gate to turn every human being on the planet into a clone of himself, except Wilfred Mott and his granddaughter, Donna Noble. (DW: The End of Time)
 * 4398: A spaceship became trapped in the sky above Sardicktown with Rory Williams and Amy Pond on board. The Eleventh Doctor confronted Kazran Sardick with images from his past. (DW: A Christmas Carol)

Alternate Timeline

 * 2007: The Tenth Doctor failed to regenerate and died with the Racnoss children. The Webstar was destroyed by the British Army.

Behind the scenes

 * 1966 - Episode 2 of DW: The Highlanders was first broadcast.
 * 2006 - TW: Combat was first broadcast.
 * 2008 - A little-known actor named Matt Smith attended a secret photo shoot; it was so secret, in fact, that the hairstylist and photographer were not informed what it was for. Later, an image of the the Doctor's TARDIS would be digitally added to the photos, which would be issued on 3 January 2009 to announce Smith as the 11th actor to play the Doctor.
 * 2010 - K9TV: The Fall of the House of Gryffen was first broadcast on Five in the UK.