Theory:Timeline - Torchwood

This page lists appearances of the Torchwood Institute and Torchwood Three in chronological order. 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.

Limiting factors
Any story with Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh must be after TV: Everything Changes and before TV: End of Days or after TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and before TV: Exit Wounds. Any story where Owen is dead, but still mobile must be set after TV: Dead Man Walking and before TV: Exit Wounds. Any story where Gwen is married to Rhys must be after TV: Something Borrowed. Any story with Gwen and Ianto must be after TV: Exit Wounds and before TV: Children of Earth: Day One.

Overview
The adventures of Torchwood Three and the related Torchwood team in America that was formed after the destruction of the Hub can be categorised as these original to Torchwood television lineups:


 * Jack Harkness, Gwen, Owen, Ianto and Tosh in Torchwood Three
 * Jack Harkness, Gwen and Ianto in Torchwood Three
 * Jack Harkness, Gwen, Ianto and associate Rhys Williams following the Torchwood Hub's destruction
 * Jack Harkness, Gwen, Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond as part of a new team codenamed Torchwood

Beginnings

 * TV: Tooth and Claw
 * Queen Victoria founds the Torchwood Institute in 1879.


 * AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack
 * John Hart imprisons Jack at Flat Holm, 1887.


 * COMIC: The Time Machination
 * Set in 1889. A group of Torchwood operatives attempt to capture the Tenth Doctor in London.


 * AUDIO: Fortitude
 * Set in 1893.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * 25 December 1897. Archie has been working with Torchwood for six months.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Queen Victoria records a 20th anniversary speech of the Torchwood Institute, setting this circa 1899.

After recruiting Jack Harkness

 * After being killed in a bar fight, Jack is discovered following his resurrection by Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd. They recruit Jack into Torchwood Three while he waits for the Doctor to turn back up in Cardiff. (TV: Fragments)


 * AUDIO: The Victorian Age
 * Set in 17 May 1899. Jack is temporarily seconded to Torchwood One.


 * PROSE: The Baby Farmers


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * In 1900, Nicholas I causes the creation of the Committee. He gifts Object 1 to Victoria who enters it into the Torchwood Archive. Later that year, she gives it to Jack to dispose of, who takes it to Cardiff where he plans to wait for the Doctor.


 * In 1901, Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell discover a future Jack buried alive. He instructs them to put him in cryogenic suspension for 107 years. (TV: Exit Wounds)

More Torchwood branches

 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * 10 March 1908. Archie uses the knowledge sponge to record information on various objects recovered by Torchwood. He recalls the events of The Victorian Age. Archie retires from Torchwood One and forms Torchwood Two.


 * In 1909 while travelling through Lahore, Jack witnesses a troop of fifteen men killed by the Fairies after they accidentally ran over a Chosen One the previous week. (TV: Small Worlds)


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * In 1914, Jack throws the red key into the Rift and causes the creation of the Weevils.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Torchwood India sends Object 1 to Jack in 1924


 * Jack meets Angelo Colasanto in 1927 New York City. They develop a romantic relationship and Angelo becomes Jack's companion. However after a betrayal of trust, Jack leaves Angelo behind. (TV: Immortal Sins)


 * COMIC: Overture
 * Set in August 1941.


 * AUDIO: The Dying Room
 * Set in 1945.


 * AUDIO: Ghost Mission
 * Norton Folgate came to the 2016 from 1953.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * In 1953, Norton Folgate is interrogated by a group of mobsters. He plants Object 1 on the Mandrake Association, on a mission for the Committee.


 * AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Set in 1961. Archie, now at 100, is still archiving at Torchwood Two.


 * In 1965 Jack gives twelve children to the The 456 in exchange for an antidote to a mutated strain of Indonesian influenza. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)


 * AUDIO: The Dollhouse
 * Set in the 1970s.


 * AUDIO: Damaged Goods
 * Set on 26 July 1987.

Under Yvonne Hartman's leadership

 * On 31 December 1999, Alex Hopkins is shown the 456 and The Miracle by The Red Key and then murders his team, leading directly into the Fragments flashback. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive) Alex hands Torchwood Three over to Jack and subsequently kills himself, unwilling to face the threats to come in the 21st century. (TV: Fragments'')


 * AUDIO: Piece of Mind
 * Jack has been searching for The Doctor for a hundred years.


 * 2003 - AUDIO: Locker 15 (Yvonne flashback)


 * In 2003 or 2004, Toshiko Sato is imprisoned by UNIT after stealing plans for a Sonic modulator and building one herself. Jack Harkness rescues her and offers her a job at Torchwood Three, which she accepts. (TV: Fragments'')


 * AUDIO: Blind Summit (flashback)
 * Ianto Jones joins Torchwood One.


 * In 2004, Suzie Costello calls Yvonne Hartman to inform her about the Ovid sex dolls. Suzie and Jack plan to get rid of Object 1 by passing it on to Torchwood One. Yvonne speaks to Ianto, setting this after the Blind Summit flashback. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive)


 * 26 March 2005 - AUDIO: One Rule
 * Torchwood Three consists of Jack Harkness, Suzie Costello and Toshiko Sato. Rajesh Singh is monitoring the Void Ship and Ianto is working for Torchwood One.


 * 2005 - AUDIO: New Girl
 * Set a few months after One Rule.


 * 2005 - AUDIO: Through the Ruins


 * 2005 - AUDIO: Uprising


 * 2006 - AUDIO: The Law Machines


 * 2006 - AUDIO: Blind Summit (framing narrative)


 * 2006 - AUDIO: 9 to 5


 * TV: Fragments (Owen Harper flashback)


 * March 2006 - TV: Aliens of London
 * Toshiko Sato covers for Owen Harper during his second week of work and performs an alien autopsy. Set in March 2006.


 * March 2006 - COMIC: The Legacy of Torchwood One! (flashback)


 * July 2006 - PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 1097 days to the Glory. Simon is saved by Jack, however it is too late for his wife, Elwyn. Suzie decides not to retcon Simon, calling it an experiment.


 * 2006 - AUDIO: Sync
 * Set between Aliens of London and Boom Town so between March and September 2006.


 * September 2006 - TV: Boom Town
 * Set six months after Aliens of London. Margaret Blaine is the mayor of Cardiff. Idris Hopper meets Jack Harkness for the first time.


 * November 2006 - PROSE: The Twilight Streets: Flashback
 * Jack takes Idris Hopper out for dinner a month after the events of Boom Town. He retcons Idris to forget about him and the Doctor.


 * 29 November 2006 - AUDIO: Moving Target
 * Suzie's alive, set during 29th November.


 * 24 December 2006 - TV: The Christmas Invasion


 * 2007 - AUDIO: Infamy of the Zaross


 * 2007 - AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Ivan Putin complains about Ovid and their dealing with the committee.


 * 2007 - AUDIO: Retirement Plan


 * 2007 - AUDIO: Locker 15
 * Ianto has worked at Torchwood One for three years.


 * 2007 - AUDIO: The Rockery
 * The Ghost Shifts have started, setting this after Infamy of the Zaross.

The Battle of Canary Wharf

 * WC: Tardisode 12
 * The Ghost shifts have already started, setting this shortly before Army of Ghosts. A journalist investigates the history of Torchwood, only to be apprehended by them before he can reveal their existence to the public.


 * 2007 - TV: Army of Ghosts
 * The Tenth Doctor investigates the Ghost shifts caused by Torchwood One. The Void Ship opens to reveal the Daleks inside. Ending leads directly into Doomsday.


 * WC: Tardisode 13
 * A Newsreader reports on the Cyberman Invasion as it happens, but is quickly cut off by a Dalek attack.


 * 2007 - TV: Doomsday
 * Most of Torchwood One is wiped out during the Battle of Canary Wharf including Yvonne Hartman, who is converted into a Cyberman.


 * Ianto Jones searches for Lisa Hallett in the wreckage of Torchwood One. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive) He finds her partially cyber-converted and pulls her from the wreckage. (TV: Cyberwoman)

Under Jack Harkness's early leadership

 * After the Battle of Canary Wharf, Ianto Jones seeks out a new job at Torchwood Three. Initially he is rejected by Jack, but after Ianto helps to capture a rogue Pterodactyl, Jack welcomes him into the team. (TV: Fragments)


 * AUDIO: The Vigil
 * Set after Ianto joins Torchwood, but before Gwen Cooper is recruited in Everything Changes.


 * AUDIO: Iceberg
 * It has been 18 months since Katie's funeral and as long since Owen joined Torchwood.


 * TV: Everything Changes
 * Gwen is recruited.


 * TV: Day One
 * Gwen's first day on the job.


 * TV: Ghost Machine
 * Gwen is still inexperienced with weapons. Set 66 years after 1941.


 * Set in Cardiff, 2007. Gwen has recently joined Torchwood. (AUDIO: Army of One)


 * PROSE: Another Life
 * Rhys mentions a co-worker called Lucy who has been on a diet recently, foreshadowing Slow Decay. Gwen has been working for Torchwood for a few weeks now and has experience with weapons, setting this after Ghost Machine.


 * PROSE: Border Princes
 * Set in October 2007.


 * PROSE: Slow Decay
 * Ianto keeps something secret in the hub.


 * TV: Cyberwoman


 * Ianto first enters the ferret the night after Lisa dies. A few days later Jack takes Ianto out to hunt Weevils. Later when Ianto returns to the Ferret, he is given advice by Mandy. The next day, Jack is contacted by Estelle Cole and takes Gwen with him instead of Ianto, leading directly into Small Worlds. (AUDIO: Broken)


 * TV: Small Worlds


 * Jack and Ianto fight Scorchies at the Millennium Centre. Ianto opens up to Jack about his life before the battle of Canary Wharf and how the loss of Lisa has affected him. This leads to him being invited on a mission to the Brecon Beacons for a few days, leading into Countrycide. (AUDIO: Broken)


 * TV: Countrycide


 * Horrified by what he witnessed in Countrycide, Ianto attempts suicide before being talked down by Mandy. He returns to work the following day. (AUDIO: Broken)


 * TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts


 * Ianto visits the Ferret on the night that Jack killed Mary. Jack enters the Ferret on the same night investigating rift activity. (AUDIO: Broken)


 * AUDIO: Instant Karma
 * Tosh has recently discovered what her friends really think of her and recently had a bad relationship, setting this shortly after Greeks Bearing Gifts.


 * TV: They Keep Killing Suzie
 * Set three months after Everything Changes.


 * AUDIO: The Last Beacon
 * The events of Cyberwoman are recent and Ianto is in a relationship with Jack.


 * TV: Random Shoes
 * Set 14 years after 1992, can be attributed to rounding.


 * TV: Out of Time
 * Captain Jack Harkness places this story in the week ending December 24th.


 * TV: Web of Lies
 * Jack is kidnapped while he and Gwen are on patrol.


 * January 2008 - TV: Combat
 * Owen is visibly upset by the events of Out of Time in this story. He calls off his affair with Gwen.


 * AUDIO: Hidden
 * Jack and Ianto are in a relationship, setting this after Broken. The team don’t know that Jack is immortal yet, setting this before Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.


 * TV: Captain Jack Harkness


 * TV: End of Days
 * Continues where Captain Jack Harkness left off. Jack disappears from Torchwood.

Jack's disappearance

 * PROSE: Consequences: Kaleidoscope
 * Set shortly after End of Days with the team arguing over who will take charge in Jack's absence.


 * April - PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 537 days to the Glory. Gwen dreams about Jack and Ianto, but no longer knows who they are. Meanwhile Simon brings Elwyn back through the Rift, however she dies shortly after.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 513 days to the Glory. Simon is still treating Elwyn as if she is alive.


 * May - PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 502 days to the Glory. Gwen witnesses Simon preaching in the streets, however no one listens to him.


 * June - PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 479 days to the Glory. Simon begins to gather his followers.

Torchwood Three grows closer

 * TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
 * Gwen has started taking charge more in Jack's absence, in comparison to Captain Jack Harkness, where Owen was said to be second-in-command. Gwen is now engaged to Rhys.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 444 days to the Glory. Gwen dreams about Jack, Tosh and Owen attempting to talk a man called Bryn out of suicide.


 * COMIC: The Legacy of Torchwood One!


 * TV: Sleeper
 * Torchwood deals with an attack by Cell 114, and are made aware that other sleeper agents are on Earth.


 * AUDIO: Serenity
 * Set after Sleeper, Jack and Ianto spend a period of some weeks undercover to destroy the last of Cell 114.


 * June 2008 - TV: To the Last Man
 * Occurs on Friday 20th of June, 114 years after 1894.


 * PROSE: Something in the Water
 * Tosh recalls To the Last Man but Rhys does not yet know about Torchwood.


 * PROSE: Trace Memory
 * Set in 2008. To the Last Man is referenced and Rhys does not appear to be aware of Torchwood.


 * AUDIO: Everyone Says Hello
 * Set between Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and Reset.


 * TV: Meat


 * PROSE: Mend Me
 * Set 4 July 2008. Rhys knows about Torchwood, setting this after Meat. However Owen is still alive, setting this before Reset.


 * AUDIO: The Conspiracy
 * Jack has left Torchwood before.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * One week after The Conspiracy, Gwen Cooper visits a conspiracy theorist possessed by the Committee.


 * AUDIO: Fall to Earth
 * Jack is currently missing.


 * AUDIO: Uncanny Valley
 * Jack decides to return to Torchwood Three.


 * 2008 - AUDIO: The Rocker (final scene)
 * Anne Hartman mourns Yvonne on the anniversary of her death.


 * 2008 - AUDIO: Zone 10
 * Neil Redmond was investigated by the KVI, setting this shortly after Uncanny Valley. Toshiko is working on the Time lock. Anna Volokova says she was born in 1930, with Tosh then exclaiming that she must be 78 years old.


 * 2008 - AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * A week after her visit to Russia, Tosh has reversed the effects of the Bad Penny. She tosses it into another dimension.


 * AUDIO: The Office of Never Was


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Eve Trent confesses to her involvement with the Committee.


 * AUDIO: torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor
 * Set after Zone 10 but months before Exit Wounds.


 * PROSE: Unplugged


 * August 2008 - PROSE: The Twilight Streets
 * Set in August 2008. 22 months have passed since Jack last encountered Idris Hopper. Rhys is aware of the existence of Torchwood, setting this after Meat. However Owen is still alive, setting this before Reset


 * AUDIO: In the Shadows
 * Jack gives Gwen two plane tickets to Paris, setting this shortly before Adam


 * TV: Adam
 * Gwen has just returned from a trip to Paris with Rhys.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Archie takes a call from Owen Harper in the 21st Century.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * The Bad Penny arrives through the rift again at Torchwood Three. It is then stored in The Torchwood Archive by lanto Jones.


 * COMIC: Jetsam


 * COMIC: Rift War!
 * Rhys knows about Torchwood, setting this after Meat. However Owen has not died yet, setting this before Reset.


 * PROSE: Black Water
 * Owen has not died yet, setting this before Reset.

Owen's undeath

 * TV: Reset


 * TV: Dead Man Walking
 * Continues where Reset left off. Owen is resurrected, but with no lifesigns.


 * TV: A Day in the Death
 * Set three days after Reset.


 * AUDIO: Corpse Day
 * Owen and Andy work together representing Torchwood and the police respectively to investigate a cold case with suspected alien involvement. Owen died recently, setting this shortly after Reset. Owen and Andy develop a friendship over the course of the story.


 * AUDIO: The Hope
 * Owen and Andy are friends, setting this after Corpse Day.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 336 days to the Glory. Gwen dreams that she and Jack recover Elwyn's body from Simon's house.


 * PROSE: Mrs Acres
 * Gwen is engaged, setting this between Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Something Borrowed.


 * PROSE: The Beauty of Our Weapons
 * The team know that Jack is immortal, setting this after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.


 * PROSE: The Book of Jahi
 * Owen is undead, setting this after A Day in the Death. Gwen is about to get married, setting this before Something Borrowed.


 * PROSE: Requiem
 * Set Halloween, 2008.


 * PROSE: Pack Animals
 * Set on Halloween night and into early November. Owen is undead, setting this after A Day in the Death. However Gwen and Rhys are finalising plans for their wedding, setting this before Something Borrowed.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 193 days to the Glory. Simon preaches the coming of the Glory to his followers while Gwen dreams of herself, Jack and Ianto discovering a spike in Rift activity in Cardiff.


 * TV: Something Borrowed
 * Gwen and Rhys get married.


 * PROSE: Plant Life
 * Set during the first day after Gwen’s return from honeymoon.


 * PROSE: Skypoint
 * Gwen and Rhys have just returned from their honeymoon and two weeks have passed since Something Borrowed. Toshiko is working on the Time lock. Gwen has been with Torchwood for roughly a year. Two years have passed since Owen joined Torchwood, while a couple of months have passed since Reset. It is mentioned several times that it is September, however this conflicts with several other dates given.


 * PROSE: Harm's Way
 * Rhys recalls an alien appearing at his wedding, setting this after Something Borrowed.


 * AUDIO: Believe
 * Gwen mentions the Nostrovite, placing this story after Something Borrowed.


 * TV: From Out of the Rain


 * TV: Adrift


 * PROSE: Monster
 * Set in 2009. Owen is undead, setting this after A Day in the Death. The team know that people can be taken away by the rift, setting this after Adrift.


 * TV: Fragments
 * At least 21 months after the battle of Canary Wharf, according to Ianto's flashback.


 * TV: Exit Wounds
 * Continues where Fragments left off. Owen and Tosh die. In 1901, Jack asks to be frozen for 107 years so that he'd wake up in what he'd consider 'the present', setting this in 2008.


 * Months after their previous encounter and after hearing about a series of explosions in Cardiff, Stephen Heinz calls Tosh to check up on her and reveal his feelings for her. He gets no response. (AUDIO: torchwood_cascade_CDRip.tor)

Coping without Tosh and Owen

 * AUDIO: Lost Souls
 * Martha meets Jack for the first time since Owen and Tosh's funeral. In the real world, The Large Hadron Collider was switched on, on the 10 September 2008 which was also the date this story was released. However no dialogue in the story supports this placement and it conflicts with other dates given.


 * AUDIO: Expectant
 * The events of Exit Wounds are recent. Jack and Ianto are left to run Torchwood alone while Gwen is holidaying in Tenerife.


 * PROSE: Almost Perfect


 * PROSE: Who by Fire


 * COMIC: Captain Jack and the Selkie


 * PROSE: Gordian


 * PROSE: The Man Who Dreamed of Stars


 * PROSE: Closing Time


 * PROSE: Stakes on a Plane


 * PROSE: I May Be Some Time


 * PROSE: They Keep Killing Andy
 * Andy is still a PC. 1909 was “nearly one hundred years ago, setting this around 2008.


 * PROSE: Flotsam and Jetsam


 * COMIC: Fated to Pretend

The Torchwood Trio

 * PROSE: Happy New Year
 * Jack, Gwen and Ianto celebrate New Year's Eve together. This story conflicts Fragments being set in 2009.


 * PROSE: Photo Finish


 * COMIC: Ma and Par
 * Its still early in the new year.


 * COMIC: Escape To Penhaxico
 * Two months have passed since the events of Voyage of the Damned, setting this in February 2009. Jack is reunited with The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.


 * PROSE: Into the Silence
 * Torchwood meet Nina Rogers.


 * PROSE: Bay of the Dead


 * PROSE: The House That Jack Built


 * TV: The Stolen Earth


 * TV: Journey's End


 * Gwen attempts to send a message to Owen and Tosh in the afterlife. She recalls the events of The Stolen Earth and Lost Souls. (AUDIO: In the Shadows)


 * AUDIO: The Sin Eaters
 * The door to the Hub is still damaged from the Dalek attack. Torchwood Three have a boat called the Sea Queen. It is destroyed by the end of the story.


 * AUDIO: Asylum


 * AUDIO: Golden Age


 * AUDIO: The Dead Line


 * PROSE: The Last Voyage of Osiris
 * Preview to Risk Assessment.


 * PROSE: Risk Assessment
 * Set in 2009. Torchwood Three have replaced the Sea Queen with the Sea Queen II.


 * PROSE: The Undertaker's Gift


 * PROSE: Consequences: The Wrong Hands


 * PROSE: Consequences: Virus


 * PROSE: Consequences: Consequences
 * Nina Rogers recalls the Dalek Invasion. She is 21 years old and Ianto is still alive, setting this at some point between July and September 2009.


 * PROSE: Postcards from the Rift


 * PROSE: Reflections


 * PROSE: Rare Earth


 * PROSE: The Package


 * PROSE: Ashes to Ashes


 * PROSE: Rift-Raff


 * PROSE: Lockdown


 * PROSE: Everything's True


 * COMIC: Somebody Else's Problem: A Gwen Cooper Story


 * PROSE: The Secret of Crow Island


 * PROSE: Red-Handed


 * PROSE: Cultural Firsts
 * Ianto has done Opera, setting this after Into the Silence.


 * COMIC: Broken
 * Takes place 140 years after 1869 setting this in 2009.


 * COMIC: Hell House


 * PROSE: The Mind's Eye


 * AUDIO: Department X


 * AUDIO: Ghost Train


 * AUDIO: The Devil and Miss Carew
 * AUDIO: Submission


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 20 days to the Glory. Simon feeds Jack and Ianto to the Rift, erasing them from history.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 7 days to the Glory. Gwen meets Andy at a café and discusses her theory about people disappearing in Cardiff.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 5 days to the Glory. Gwen and Rhys investigate the Millennium Centre.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 4 days to the Glory. Gwen and Andy look into Gwen's theory at Andy's flat.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 3 days to the Glory. Gwen turns to Yvonne for help with her theory.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * The day of the Glory. Simon gathers his followers at the Millennium centre. Andy warns Gwen about this and the two of them, along with Rhys go to investigate. Nina Rogers is present and believes that Gwen looks familiar. Simon feeds his followers to the Rift, and Gwen remembers Torchwood.


 * PROSE: We All Go Through
 * 3 days after the Glory. Gwen lures Simon to Flat Holm and kills him, before taking Retcon to forget. She returns to Cardiff where Jack and Ianto appear in the Hub, having escaped the pocket dimension using Jack's Vortex manipulator.


 * AUDIO: Outbreak
 * Norton Folgate is aware that Ianto will die soon.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Jack is watched by The Committee while he plays with his dog, Untitled.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * In 2009, Andy goes on a date and attempts to brag about Torchwood.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Rhys makes a delivery for the Committee.


 * AUDIO: Dissected
 * A long time has passed since Reset, and quite some time has also passed since Exit Wounds. Jack and Ianto are referenced, setting this before Children of Earth. Martha missed a Torchwood Christmas Party that she was invited to after Tosh and Owen's deaths.

The 456 return

 * September 2009 - TV:  Day One


 * TV:  Day Two


 * TV:  Day Three


 * TV:  Day Four
 * Ianto is killed after The 456 Flood Thames House with a virus that kills everyone inside the building.


 * TV:  Day Five

Torchwood disbanded

 * COMIC: Shrouded
 * Jack and Gwen attend Ianto's funeral.


 * October 2009 - PROSE: Long Time Dead
 * Set one month after the 456 incident, in October 2009. Suzie is briefly resurrected for a second time.


 * AUDIO: The House of the Dead
 * Six months have passed since Ianto died, setting this in March 2010. Jack decides to leave Earth.


 * In March 2010, six months after the 456 incident, Jack leaves Earth. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)


 * AUDIO: What Have I Done?
 * Set shortly after Ianto's death.


 * TV: The End of Time - Part Two
 * The Doctor sets Jack up with Midshipman Alonso Frame.


 * AUDIO: One Enchanted Evening


 * PROSE: First Born
 * Begins around March 2010 with Gwen seven months pregnant, and continues through to about May of the same year, with the birth of Anwen Williams.


 * PROSE: The Men Who Sold the World
 * Set nine months after Children of Earth, placing this around June 2010.

Miracle Day epidemic

 * TV: The New World
 * Jack returns to Earth.


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part One
 * Set on the first day of The Miracle.


 * TV: Rendition
 * Jack and Gwen are taken to America. According to the date on Rex's phone, it is 22 March 2011.


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Two


 * TV: Dead of Night


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Three


 * TV: Escape to LA


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Four
 * TV: The Categories of Life


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Five


 * TV: The Middle Men


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Six


 * TV: Immortal Sins


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Seven


 * TV: End of the Road
 * Jack and Gwen return to the UK, along with Esther after End of the Road. The New World through End of the Road flow into one another.


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Eight


 * TV: The Gathering
 * Takes place a two months after End of the Road.


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Nine


 * TV: The Blood Line
 * Continues where The Gathering left off. Esther's funeral takes place a few weeks after the main story. According to a date on Rex's phone, it is September 2011.


 * TV: Web of Lies - Part Ten
 * Post-Miracle, Holly kept a bag of Jack's blood.

After Miracle Day

 * AUDIO: Army of One
 * Gwen and Rhys are still in America following Miracle Day. Gwen gives Sarah Drummond a small fortune.


 * AUDIO: Fallout
 * Gwen and Rhys are still in America.


 * AUDIO: Red Skies
 * Jack visits Cotter Paluni's World and has a vision of Gwen dying.


 * AUDIO: Mr Invincible
 * Set shortly after Red Skies with Jack returning to Cardiff to check on Gwen following his vision. Gwen and Rhys have returned to Swansea. The events of Fallout were weeks ago.


 * PROSE: Exodus Code
 * The Miracle ended a few months ago. Andy recalls the events of Fallout while Gwen and Rhys still live in Swansea. Jack joins the crew of the Ice Maiden.

Torchwood returns

 * AUDIO: Forgotten Lives
 * Gwen hasn’t seen Jack for five years. The Miracle is mentioned. Gwen decides to set up Torchwood operations in Cardiff again.


 * AUDIO: More Than This
 * Roughly 10 years have passed since Day One, but Torchwood has been forgotten in the space of four years.


 * AUDIO: Ghost Mission
 * Set in 2016. Almost 10 years have passed since Gwen Cooper joined Torchwood and she has recently started trying to set up operations in Cardiff again.


 * AUDIO: Made You Look
 * Set during the winter. Gwen and Rhys have a place to store aliens, suggesting that they now have use of the Hub, placing this after More Than This.


 * COMIC: World Without End
 * Gwen is acting-head of Torchwood Three, while Jack is serving with the crew of the Ice Maiden. Ending leads directly into Station Zero.


 * COMIC: Station Zero
 * Ending leads directly into The Culling.


 * COMIC: The Culling
 * Jack and Gwen part ways once again after defeating the Vervoids.


 * AUDIO: Visiting Hours
 * Gwen runs Torchwood. Mary Cooper is alive.


 * AUDIO: We Always Get Out Alive
 * Rhys mentions Roger Pugh from More Than This.


 * AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly


 * AUDIO: Deadbeat Escape
 * To Bilis' disbelief, Torchwood do not interfere in this story, meaning he is familiar with them, setting this after his meeting with them in Captain Jack Harkness. Bilis says he repairs clocks, referring to Captain Jack Harkness. Bilis has been trapped by The Comittiee.


 * AUDIO: Night of the Fendahl
 * Gwen gets a phone call from Rhys, and she mentions Anwen.


 * AUDIO: Driving Miss Wells
 * Trinity Wells has given up news reporting, setting this after any story where she can be seen news reporting. She ultimately takes charge of Piscatek making a return to news reporting unlikely.


 * AUDIO: Smashed
 * Gwen keeps in contact with Rhys over the phone and mentions Anwen, setting this after Gwen decides to start running Torchwood alone following Forgotten Lives.

Aliens Among Us

 * AUDIO: Changes Everything
 * Having been "dumped" by the crew of the Ice Maiden, Jack has returned to duty at Torchwood Cardiff.


 * AUDIO: Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy
 * Gwen murders a suspicious Mary Cooper.


 * AUDIO: Orr
 * Gwen and Rhys attend Mary's funeral. Torchwood meet Orr for the first time. Changes Everything was a few weeks ago.


 * AUDIO: Superiority Complex
 * After helping Torchwood investigate a new hotel, Orr joins the team permanently.


 * AUDIO: Love Rat
 * Orr has only just joined the team. Rhys believes that Gwen hasn’t been herself for weeks, since before Mary died. Colchester encounters Bilis Manger.


 * AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * In 2017, Mr Colchester visits the Committee. He briefly speaks with Orr.


 * AUDIO: Dead Man's Switch
 * Bilis Manger says that he is going to see some old friends, suggesting this takes place just before A Kill to a View.


 * AUDIO: A Kill to a View


 * AUDIO: Zero Hour
 * Anwen Williams is seven years old, setting this after June 2017.


 * AUDIO: The Empty Hand
 * Ending leads directly into Poker Face.


 * AUDIO: Poker Face
 * AUDIO: Tagged
 * AUDIO: Escape Room
 * AUDIO: Herald of the Dawn
 * A few months have passed since Changes Everything. Poker Face was a few days ago.

God Among Us

 * AUDIO: Future Pain
 * Set a few weeks after Herald of the Dawn.


 * AUDIO: Cardiff Unknown
 * Set a few weeks after Herald of the Dawn. The Mayor of Cardiff has gone missing, setting this after Future Pain. Brent Hayden is still around, setting this before The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood. Flight 405 went missing in 1957 and has been circling Cardiff for 60 years, setting this around 2017. Proper Grub is advertised on the radio, setting this before The Green Life.


 * AUDIO: The Green Life
 * Jack teams up with Jo Grant to defeat BOSS and shut down Proper Grub, setting this after Cardiff Unknown.


 * AUDIO: Sargasso
 * Gwen has quit Torchwood, and she’s trying to live a normal life with Rhys, however Torchwood is still running and has a team that can be called in to deal with alien threats.


 * AUDIO: The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood


 * AUDIO: See No Evil
 * Ending leads directly into Night Watch.


 * AUDIO: Night Watch
 * Set weeks after Future Pain. Ending leads directly into Flight 405.


 * AUDIO: Flight 405
 * AUDIO: Hostile Environment


 * AUDIO: Another Man's Shoes
 * The Empty Hand took place the previous year. Set weeks after Flight 405.


 * AUDIO: Eye of the Storm


 * AUDIO: A Mother's Son
 * Set around two months after Eye of the Storm.


 * AUDIO: ScrapeJane
 * Colchester died "A few months ago".


 * AUDIO: Day Zero


 * AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers
 * The Hub is destroyed again, and Torchwood go on the run from The Committee.

Continued operations

 * WC: Incoming Message
 * Yvonne Hartman sends a message to the people of the United Kingdom, as head of Torchwood, urging them to self isolate.

Far Future

 * 4221 - WC: Tardisode 8
 * McMillen sends Captain Walker on an expedition to Krop Tor.


 * 4221 - WC: Tardisode 9
 * Following Walker's death, Curt searches through his belongings and discovers a notebook filled with satanic writing and is subsequently possessed by The Beast.


 * 4221 - TV: The Impossible Planet
 * Zachary Cross Flane, representative of the Torchwood Archive leads Sanctuary Base 6 following the death of Captain Walker. Ending leads directly into The Satan Pit.


 * 4221 - TV: The Satan Pit
 * Zachary Cross Flane escapes Krop Tor with the surviving members of Sanctuary Base 6.


 * 4221 - AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive
 * Jeremiah Bash Henderson visits the Torchwood Archive.

Unplaced

 * COMIC: The Return of the Vostok
 * Set in March.


 * AUDIO: Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes #4
 * Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh are all present in the hub. Jack and Ianto are in a relationship.