Theory:Timeline - 21st century

This page lists the order of stories set on Earth, it's moon or anything else in it's orbit 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. This page is split into two sections, the prime timeline and other timelines. The "prime" timeline is the timeline which most closely mirrors the real world, most stories which portray the early 21st century in a way similar to reality are placed here. The "other" timelines section features stories which are utterly impossible to reconcile with the "prime" timeline and stories which take place in alternate timelines/universes.


 * Due to the sheer number of Torchwood stories we will only include select Torchwood stories on this timeline. This is not to say that these events do not take place in the 21st century, it is merely to keep this page clean. Visit Theory:Timeline - Torchwood for a detailed history of Torchwood.

2000
January
 * PROSE: Millennial Rites
 * TV: Doctor Who: The Movie/PROSE: The Novel of the Film
 * Parts of these stories take place in 1999, but some scenes are on January 1st 2000.


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

February March June
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time #8 (beginning)
 * AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy (part 1)
 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

2001
January February April June July
 * COMIC: The Fallen
 * PROSE: Escape Velocity
 * PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass
 * AUDIO: Animal
 * PROSE: The Cat Came Back

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
June November December
 * AUDIO: The Transit of Venus (flashback)
 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus (parts 1 & 2)
 * PROSE: Spookasem
 * PROSE: Last Minute Shopping
 * PROSE: Water's Edge

2005
April March July August September December
 * 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
 * PROSE: Waiting for Jeremy
 * PROSE: Most Horrid
 * COMIC: Mr Nobody
 * PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow
 * AUDIO: Death in Blackpool

2006
January March May June July
 * AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks (mentioned only)
 * TV: Aliens of London/World War Three (exactly 1 year after Rose)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * PROSE: Only Human
 * AUDIO: No More Lies
 * AUDIO: Human Resources
 * AUDIO: Orbis (opening scene)
 * Six months after Lucie Miller was returned to her proper time.

September November December
 * 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
 * COMIC: The Lodger
 * TV: New Earth (beginning)
 * PROSE: The Stone Rose
 * PROSE: The Feast of the Drowned
 * TV: School Reunion
 * TV: The Lost Boy/PROSE: The Lost Boy (flashback)
 * Sarah Jane Smith created Mr Smith 18 months before The Lost Boy

June July August
 * TV: Love & Monsters
 * AUDIO: Unregenerate!
 * TV: Blink
 * PROSE: Salva Mea
 * TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

September October November December
 * PROSE: The Nightmare of Black Island
 * TV: Everything Changes
 * TV: The Family of Blood (final scene)
 * COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons (final scene)
 * TV: The Runaway Bride

2008
January February March April May June July August September
 * TV: Invasion of the Bane/ PROSE: Invasion of the Bane
 * PROSE: Speech Day
 * TV: Captain Jack Harkness/End of Days
 * TV: Utopia (opening scene)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * TV: Smith and Jones
 * TV: The Lazarus Experiment
 * TV: 42 (phone call to modern day)
 * PROSE: The Deviant Strain
 * Takes places 20 years after the Soviet Union began having reductions in the funding of it's military. (1988)

October November December
 * TV: Revenge of the Slitheen/ PROSE: Revenge of the Slitheen
 * TV: Eye of the Gorgon/ PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon
 * TV: Warriors of Kudlak/ PROSE: Warriors of Kudlak
 * PROSE: Forever Autumn
 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * TV: The Lost Boy/ PROSE: The Lost Boy
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * TV: Voyage of the Damned

2009
January February March April
 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * AUDIO: The Glittering Storm
 * TV: Something Borrowed 
 * TV: Partners in Crime
 * TV: Planet of the Dead
 * TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky 

May
 * TV: Dalek
 * Daleks are not commonly known.


 * AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone
 * TV: The Last Sontaran/ PROSE: The Last Sontaran
 * Maria Jackson moves out of Bannerman Road.


 * COMIC: The Widow's Curse

June
 * TV: Fragments (TV story)/Exit Wounds (TV story)
 * TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
 * Maria Jackson doesn't live on Bannerman road.

July

August
 * AUDIO: The Eternal Summer (final Maxwell Edison scene)
 * COMIC: Death Disco

September
 * TV: The Day of the Clown/ PROSE: The Day of the Clown
 * TV: Children of Earth
 * TV: The God Complex (ending)
 * Amy Pond and Rory Williams begin living in the house given to them by the 11th Doctor.

October November December
 * TV: Secrets of the Stars
 * COMIC: Revolutions of Terror
 * TV: The Mark of the Berserker
 * COMIC: Echo
 * COMIC: The Fountains of Forever/Spiral Staircase
 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: Enemy of the Bane
 * TV: The End of Time

2010
January February March April May June
 * TV: From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * TV: Prisoner of the Judoon/ PROSE: Judoon Afternoon
 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic 
 * TV: The Eternity Trap/ PROSE: The Haunted House
 * TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge/ PROSE: Painting Peril
 * AUDIO: The Sentinels of the New Dawn
 * TV: The Gift/ PROSE: Blathereen Dream
 * Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer are doing GCSEs.

July September October November December
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang (Amy and Rory's wedding)
 * AUDIO: Situation Vacant
 * 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
 * AUDIO: Find and Replace (part 1)
 * TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (ending scene)
 * Approximately 2 years since The God Complex

2011
January February March April May June July August September December
 * PROSE: The Forgotten Son original opening 
 * PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow (flashback: The funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart)
 * AUDIO: The Forbidden Time
 * TV: Closing Time (TV story)
 * TV: The Impossible Astronaut (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Wedding of River Song (TV story)
 * TV: Pond Life (April)
 * TV: Pond Life (May)
 * AUDIO: Ferril's Folly
 * TV: A Good Man Goes to War (TV story) Amy and Rory dropped off in modern day at the end.
 * TV: Pond Life (June)
 * AUDIO: Tales from the Vault
 * TV: Pond Life (July)
 * TV: Let's Kill Hitler (opening scene)
 * TV: Torchwood: Miracle Day (1 - 8)
 * TV: Pond Life (August)
 * TV: Torchwood: Miracle Day (9, 10)
 * TV: Night Terrors (TV story)
 * TV: Asylum of the Daleks (TV story) (opening)
 * TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story) (modern day scenes)

2012
January June
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros (modern scenes)
 * TV: Fear Her (TV story)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (first July)
 * Kate Stewart's first meeting with the 11th Doctor.

August October December
 * PROSE: Magic of the Angels
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (October)
 * TV: The Power of Three (December)

2013
January February March April May June July August
 * COMIC: Pet Panic
 * COMIC: Love is in the Air
 * COMIC: The Egg Hunt
 * TV: The Bells of Saint John (TV story)
 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * AUDIO: Eldrad Must Die!
 * 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)
 * COMIC: Gumfight
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (June)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (second July)
 * AUDIO: UNIT: Extinction
 * Takes place between The Power of Three and The Day of the Doctor.

November December
 * COMIC: Buzz!
 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: The Time Machine
 * COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone
 * TV: The Time of the Doctor (modern day scenes)
 * TV:Deep Breath (ending scene)

2014
January February March June July August September October November December
 * TV: Into the Dalek (modern day scenes)
 * COMIC: The Door to a Winter Long Ago
 * TV: Listen (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Time Heist (opening scene)
 * PROSE: The Crawling Terror
 * TV: The Caretaker
 * COMIC: Lucky Heather
 * AUDIO: Night of the Stormcrow
 * COMIC: After Life
 * COMIC: What He Wants...  (modern scenes)
 * COMIC: The Eternal Dogfight / The Infinite Astronaut
 * TV: Flatline
 * AUDIO: The Screaming Skull
 * AUDIO: Second Sight
 * COMIC: The Fractures
 * TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * TV: Dark Water/Death in Heaven
 * PROSE: Behind You
 * TV: Last Christmas

2015
January May June July August September October November
 * AUDIO: Project: Nirvana
 * COMIC: Give Free or Die
 * PROSE: The Last Pharaoh
 * COMIC: Selfie
 * COMIC: The Comfort of the Good
 * AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies
 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice
 * COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death
 * 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.

December
 * TV: Face the Raven
 * TV: Hell Bent (flashback)
 * TV: Hell Bent
 * PROSE: Big Bang Generation
 * PROSE: In Search of Doctor X
 * AUDIO: The Caves of Erith
 * PROSE: Haunted

2017
December
 * PROSE: Not in my Back Yard

2018
February
 * COMIC: The Greed of the Gavulav

2019
July
 * COMIC: Arctic Eclipse

2020
September
 * AUDIO: House of Blue Fire

2022
July August
 * AUDIO: The Grel Escape (Festival of Piranha)
 * AUDIO: The Uncertainty Principle

2025
April May
 * AUDIO: Project: Destiny
 * AUDIO: Project: Destiny

2029
July
 * AUDIO: Shield of the Jötunn

2045
November
 * AUDIO: The Word Lord

2048
April
 * COMIC: Blood and Ice

2049
October
 * TV: Kill the Moon

2059
November
 * TV: The Waters of Mars

2064

 * PROSE: War in a Time of Peace

2067
August
 * PROSE: Stop the Pidgeon

2070
February
 * TV: The Moonbase

2071
May
 * AUDIO: Scavenger

2079
April
 * TV: The Wheel in Space

2080

 * AUDIO: Loups-Garoux

2084

 * TV: Warriors of the Deep

2099

 * PROSE: Snowglobe 7

Point of no return timeline

 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead
 * Environmentally, Earth is approaching the point of no return in the early 21st century, the "not too distant" future of 1992.

2006
 * PROSE: Iceberg
 * All diseases in the world are called "the plague" and FLIPback is meant to fix an approaching catastrophe.

Eurozone Timeline
2003 2005 2006 2010 2012 2015 2050 2060
 * AUDIO: Minuet in Hell
 * PROSE: How You Get There
 * PROSE: The Last Broadcast
 * PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness
 * AUDIO: The Coup
 * AUDIO: Time Heals
 * AUDIO: Snake Head
 * AUDIO: The Longest Night
 * AUDIO: The Wasting
 * PROSE: Trading Futures
 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 3
 * AUDIO: Hothouse
 * AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Feast of Axos

The timeline in which Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart regains his youth
This really needs a better name!

2003 2010 2012 2050s
 * PROSE: Eternity Weeps
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avslon
 * PROSE: The King of Terror

Dr. Who's Earth
2008
 * PROSE: Voice from the Vortex!

Cracked Timeline

 * When the cracks in time were released into the universe by a potential destruction of The Doctor's TARDIS many events were erased from history and many were created.

2008 2010 2011 2020 2098
 * TV: The Eleventh Hour
 * TV: The Eleventh Hour (ending scene)
 * TV: Flesh and Stone (ending scene)
 * TV: The Vampires of Venice (TV story) (opening scene)
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens (TV story)/The Big Bang (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * PROSE: The Forgotten Army
 * TV: Vincent and the Doctor (TV story) (scenes in the Musée d'Orsay)
 * TV: The Lodger
 * COMIC: The Golden Ones
 * COMIC: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
 * TV: The Hungry Earth (TV story)/Cold Blood (TV story)
 * COMIC: The Screams of Death
 * COMIC: The Child of Time

UNISYC Timeline
2018 2060s
 * TV: The Enemy of the World
 * PROSE: Alien Bodies

The Great Kingdom
2000
 * PROSE: Millennial Rites

Blue Cobalt timeline

 * An Earth where weapons technology was severely advanced when Brak gave Winston Churchill Blue Cobalt, the element used to power Sontaran blasters.

2000
 * AUDIO: Old Soldiers

The Year That Never Was
2008 - 2009
 * TV: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
 * PROSE: The Story of Martha

The Earth ruled by Phantoms

 * Creatures made of mist came to the 1860s from a future where they were the rulers of a ravaged Earth in order to create the future they came from.

2008
 * AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

Andrea Yates' World
2008
 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?/PROSE: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

The Trickster's World
2009
 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

The timeline in which Stockbridge was removed from history

 * In this timeline the village of Stockbridge disappeared in the 1960s and caused the formation of P.I.G.

2009
 * AUDIO: The Eternal Summer

Earth destroyed by the Hand of Omega
2015
 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth

New Hyperios

 * In the summer of 2015 a Hyperion scout ship collided with the International Space Station before crashing into the lake of Windermere. From the ashes of Windermere the Hyperions took over Earth. Major cities such as London were burned to a cinder. Humans were either killed and turned into the Scorched or enslaved by neural-usurpers.

2015
 * COMIC: The Hyperion Empire