Theory:Timeline - 19th century

This page lists the order of stories in the Doctor Who Universe timeline from 1 January 1800 to 31 December 1899. (For the purposes of this timeline, 1800 will be considered part of the 19th century given the 0|"Year 0" discrepancy.) This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, and LegoK9's timeline. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Timeline rules:
 * Only list stories. References to dates that the story does not take place in are to be excluded.
 * Stories without any clear indication of an era should be omitted. (e.g. TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
 * Many stories will contradict each other, so these contradictions should be noted but treated equally. (e.g. TV: The Enemy of the World and other stories set in 2018)
 * Direct quotes indicating the time period the story takes place should be provided. (Quotes sourced from another story should indicate the story it is from.)

Format (list all available):
 * Day Month Year - MEDIUM: Story title
 * CHARACTER/TEXT/NOTE: Indication of time period

Timeline

 * Previous page: Universe Timeline - 18th century

1800s

 * 21 October 1805 - PROSE: H.M.S. TARDIS
 * POLLY: This is the Battle of Trafalgar, I'm sure of it. I remember it from school. October twenty-first, 1805.


 * 1806 - AUDIO: Seasons of Fear
 * DOCTOR: Not in the year 1806. George the Third is on the throne, William Pitt is Prime Minister, and ladies fight with witticisms and the occasional fan. Not with edged weapons.

1810s

 * 4-5 February 1814 - TV: Thin Ice
 * DOCTOR: Our London. We're on the Thames. The last great Frost Fair. 1814, February the fourth.


 * 18 June 1815 - AUDIO: The Curse of Davros
 * DOCTOR: Wallonia, the southern part of Belgium. And as for the date? The early hours of the morning of the eighteenth of June, 1815.


 * June 1816 - AUDIO: Mary's Story
 * MARY: It was eighteen-sixteen, the year without a summer, when we sojourned at the Villa Diodati.
 * MARY: It was while we were there, one dreary night in June, that I first met the traveller known as the Doctor.


 * 1818 - AUDIO: The Ghosts of N-Space
 * THE DOCTOR: Mm. Eighteen Eighteen. A time of hope, and a long way from our other port of call. Ready?

1820s

 * 182X - TV: The Mark of the Rani
 * PERI: I could have been stuck in the eighteen hundreds forever.
 * SOURCE?


 * 1825 - COMIC: The Swords of Kali
 * TEXT: Madhya Province, India. 1825


 * 1826 - COMIC: Seaside Rendezvous
 * CAPTION: The Irish Sea, 1826.


 * December 1827 - AUDIO: The Beast of Orlok
 * HANS: Eighteen Twenty-Seven, actually. Look, who are you?
 * FRAU TOD: It was supposed to be a surprise. Hans is spending the Christmas holidays with us.


 * December 1828 - AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes
 * DOCTOR: Christmas 1828?
 * MARY: Christmas? You're right, of course. I hadn't realised. Not much cause for celebration in West Port.


 * 28 January 1829 - AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes
 * DOCTOR: Ah. Short jump into the future. Twenty eighth January 1829, to be precise. Out of his selfimposed time bubble.

1830s

 * 1830 - COMIC: Cat and Mouse
 * TEXT: Scotland. 1830


 * Winter 1832 - COMIC: The Parliament of Fear
 * TEXT: In the winter of 1832, the Seminole marched west.


 * 1832 - AUDIO: The Circus of Doom
 * DOCTOR (The Dead Shoes): First the tea, and when it's ready I'll you about 1832 and the circus of doom.


 * 1833 - AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls
 * DOCTOR: Ah, 1833! You see Romana? 1833!


 * 1833 - COMIC: The Time Ball
 * JOSIE: I think Captain Finlay said it was 1833.


 * 1834 - TV: Spyfall: Part Two
 * BABBAGE: The year, madam, remains 1834.


 * 19 September 1835 - AUDIO: Bloodtide
 * DARWIN: September the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty five. Upon our return to the Beagle, our immediate task was to prepare suitable lodgings for our guest, Miss Evelyn Smythe.

1840s

 * Winter 1842 - TV: The Snowmen
 * England, 1842.


 * 23 October 1843 - AUDIO: The Lions of Trafalgar
 * DOCTOR: Well done Tegan. That's why I've brought you here on this precise day, the 23rd of October, 1843.


 * 1845 - COMIC: Unearthly Things
 * TEXT: Derbyshire, 1845


 * 1847 - AUDIO: A Shard of Ice
 * ALBERT: The year was 1847, and I was being borne by royal carriage across the Murgin Pass, a journey already perilous enough.

1850

 * 1850 - AUDIO: The Enchantress of Numbers
 * Newstead Avenue, Nottinghamshire, 1850.

1851

 * Summer 1851 - AUDIO: Other Lives
 * DOCTOR: The Crystal Palace, Charley. Or what came to be known as the Crystal Palace. Designed by Joseph Paxton to house the great exhibition of the wo-
 * CHARLEY: works of all nations, Hyde Park, London, 1851.
 * CHARLEY: Oh, it's the middle of summer, and I'm baking hot!


 * 1851 - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * DOCTOR: We're too early, what year is this?
 * NYSSA: 1851.


 * 12 September 1851 - COMIC: Claws of the Klathi!
 * NATHANIEL: Why, you are in London, on the twelfth of September, year of our lord eighteen hundred and fifty-one!


 * 24 December 1851 - TV: The Next Doctor
 * BOY: Christmas Eve, sir. Year of our Lord 1851, sir.

1853

 * October 1853 - PROSE: Spinning Jenny
 * TEXT: October 1853, Strines.

1854

 * January 1854 - PROSE: Spinning Jenny
 * TEXT: January 1854, Strines.


 * 1854 - AUDIO: The Four Doctors
 * DOCTOR: The year is eighteen fifty-four, and please, try not to reveal to Faraday your knowledge of the future.


 * 25 September-19 November 1854 - AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari
 * DOCTOR: This is it Ace! The port of Sebastopol, on the night of September the 25th, 1854.
 * DOCTOR: A hypersonic pulse eminating from the area of Turkey, at 10:14 PM, on the 19th of November, 1854.

1855

 * 13 October 1855 - COMIC: Cuckoo
 * CAPTION: The journal of Doctor Thomas Gideon, Oct. 13th 1855.

1856

 * 1856 - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * BREWSTER: Then one night, one icey black night, after I'd been there five years or so, that's when it happened. [5 years from 1851]

1858

 * c. 1858 - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * BREWSTER: Another year passed, and another. And every few months, I would have the dream again.

1859

 * 15 November 1859 - AUDIO: The Pursuit of History
 * K9: The year is 1859, master.
 * K9: November the 15th.

1861

 * 1861 - AUDIO: The Broken Crown
 * DOCTOR: You saw that newspaper in the village pub, this is 1861. We need to get acclimatised.


 * 1861 - AUDIO: Aladdin Time
 * ALADDIN: Is it still 1861?
 * DOCTOR: Yes, and yes!


 * 1861 - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * You have been with us now, boy, for ten years. It is time for you to go forward into the world. [10 years from 1851]

1862

 * 1862 - COMIC: Nurse Who?
 * DOCTOR: The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. This is how you fulfil your dream, Elizabeth. [Real world year.]

1864

 * 30 July 1864 - AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks
 * WILTON: Petersburg was 1864.
 * WILTON: Battle of Elliot Salient, Petersburg, Virginia. Mineshaft under the confederate lines, the fuse was lit on the morning of July the 30th at 3:15am. Your friend Nyssa'a on Elliot Salient! It says here the federal forces blow up Elliot Salient. They list the fuse 30 seconds ago!

1865

 * 14 April 1865 - AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight
 * DOCTOR: And the year.. 1865. Ring any bells?
 * FORD: Oh, sure, sure, sure. It's April 14th.


 * 1865 - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * BREWSTER: When you were in the shop with Creek, I was in the back room. Not me now, but 2 years since. [2 years before 1867]

1866

 * 2 June 1866 - TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * MAXTIBLE: You're in my house, some miles from Canterbury. The date is June the 2nd, eighteen hundred and sixty six.


 * c. 1866 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * SHUGGY (in 1916): What do you think I've been doing for the last fifty years?


 * 1866 - COMIC: Hidden Human History
 * IRENE: And the Battle of Ridgeway, a century and a half from now [1711].
 * NOTE: Real world year.


 * 6 October 1866 - COMIC: The Silvering
 * TO-DO LIST (The Pictures of Josephine Day): Philippot’s Magisterial Delights, Theater Royal, Edinburgh, 6th October, 1866.

1867

 * 1867 - PROSE: Prelude Strange England
 * TEXT: AD1867, Scotland


 * 14 November 1867 - AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
 * NYSSA: The year is 1867?
 * HARTWRIGHT: November the 14th, about half past 5 O'clock by the bells.

1868

 * April 1868 - AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot
 * NYSSA (Time Reef): Doctor, Thomas may have left us for five months... [five months since The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (1867)]


 * c.May 1868 - AUDIO: The Boy That Time Forgot
 * BRENDA: It's unbe-blooming-lievable. You've been gone all of six weeks!


 * 1868 - COMIC: Unnatural Selection 
 * TEXT: The Royal College of Surgeons. London, England. 1868


 * 1868 - COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction
 * DOCTOR: --And the year is 1868.


 * February 1868 - PROSE: Prelude Birthright
 * TEXT: Coutts Bank, The Strand, London, February 1868

1869

 * 24 December 1869 - TV: The Unquiet Dead
 * DOCTOR: I did it. Give the man a medal. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860. ... It's not 1860, it's 1869.

1870s

 * 187X - AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor
 * DOCTOR: The American frontier in the 1870s, within the reach of our assassin.

1870

 * 1870 - AUDIO: Industrial Evolution
 * DOCTOR (The Feast of Axos): Very well. Your own time, did you say? (FX: DOCTOR OPERATING TARDIS CONTROLS.) Let’s see… how about eighteen-seventy? Near enough?


 * c. 1870 - TV: The Making of the Gunslinger
 * Assuming no time travel was involved.


 * 1870 - TV: A Town Called Mercy
 * ISAAC: Them being scared scares me. War only ended five years back. That old violence is still under the surface.

1872

 * 1872 - TV: The Chase
 * IAN: Really? I haven't seen the joke yet, I must say. One thing I did see, by the way. The name of that ship we were on: The Mary Celeste.

1873

 * 11-12 September 1873 - AUDIO: The Silver Turk
 * MARY: The eleventh of September…
 * MARY: Eighteen hundred and seventy-three?
 * DROSSEL: Good evening, sir.
 * PUPPET BRATFISCH (later): Morning, sir. Cab for you?

1878

 * 1878 - AUDIO: The Death of Captain Jack
 * JOHN: There was Deadwood, 1878...

1879

 * 28 December 1879 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * NEWSPAPER: 28th December, 1879.


 * December 1879 - TV: Tooth and Claw
 * DOCTOR: 1879. Same difference
 * RACHEL (New Girl): On the 31st of December 1879, Queen Victoria issued a charter creating the Torchwood Institute.

1880

 * 1880 - COMIC: Egyptian Escapade
 * CAPTION: The Tardis materialises on the bank of the river Nile during the year 1880, in the middle of a game of cricket being played by British soldiers stationed in Egypt...


 * Spring 1880 - COMIC: The Parliament of Fear
 * TEXT: In the spring of 1880, in a land that would someday be called Oklahoma...

1881

 * 1881 - TV: Empress of Mars
 * DOCTOR: Mars. 1881, or thereabouts. According to the Tardis, that's when the message was made.


 * 26 October 1881 - TV: The Gunfighters
 * NOTE: The historical gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
 * DOCTOR (The Magic Mousetrap): I never read the Tattler unless I'm at the dentist. And I've not been to the dentist since eighteen eighty-one.

1882

 * March 1882 - COMIC: Dead Man's Hand
 * CAPTION: Deadwood, Dakota Territory. March 1882.


 * 25 January 1882-1883 - PROSE: Erasing Sherlock
 * TEXT: London, 1882, was very different from the world in which I grew to maturity.
 * TEXT: 25 January 1883. 21:10.

1883

 * 1883 - TV: Ghost Light
 * DOCTOR: This is Inspector MacKenzie from Scotland Yard. He was sent here in 1881 to investigate the disappearance of the owner, Sir George Pritchard.
 * ACE: But that was two years ago.

1884

 * May 1884 - AUDIO: Judoon in Chains
 * BURROWS: Ladies and gentlemen in the public gallery. Gentlemen of the jury. This court is now in session, convened on this 19th day of May, 1884.

1885

 * 1885 - TV: Timelash
 * DOCTOR: 1179 AD. Add a time deflection coefficient of seven hundred and six years, that is 1885 AD.


 * 1885 - TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp
 * CLEMENCY: It was forty years ago, in the heat of Delhi, late one night. I was alone, and that's when I saw it. I loved him so much, it didn't matter. But he was stolen from me. 1885, the year of the great monsoon.


 * 15 September 1885 - AUDIO: The Wondrous Box
 * NARRATOR: On a shiny, flashing surface he saw the date: 15th of September, 1885. That, at least, was recognisable.

1886

 * 1886 - COMIC: The Lost Dimension
 * TEXT: The Pacific Ocean, 1886.

1887

 * 1887 - COMIC: Gaze of the Medusa
 * TEXT: London, 1887

1888

 * 1888 - TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * TEXT: London, 1888 A.D.

1889

 * 1889 - AUDIO: The Talents of Greel
 * NOTE: Set shortly before The Talons of Weng-Chiang, with the TARDIS arriving just as River departs London.


 * 1889 - COMIC: The Time Machination
 * CAPTION: London, 1889.
 * NOTE: The ending recreates the the Fourth Doctor and Leela's entrance in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * 1889 - TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

1890s

 * Late 18XX - AUDIO: A Spoonful of Mayhem
 * MISSY: ...And now here I stick, exiled to 19th century Earth like some common time urchin.
 * MISSY: It's a Layline, Oliver, and we're activating it
 * MISSY: Acch, look it up in about 30 years. [ley lines were coined in 1921]


 * Late 18XX - AUDIO: X and the Daleks
 * DOCTOR: In fact, I estimate that the current relative Earth date is around the late 1800s.

1890

 * 1-3 June 1890 - TV: Vincent and the Doctor
 * BLACK: Well, in that case, probably somewhere between the first and third of June. 1890. Less than a year before, before he killed himself.


 * 1890 - TV: The Pandorica Opens
 * TEXT: France 1890


 * 26 June 1890 - TV: The Power of Three
 * DOCTOR: 26th of June, 1890. The recently opened Savoy Hotel.


 * 27 July 1890 - TV: Vincent and the Doctor
 * NOTE: Real word date. Vincent shoots himself in a field.

1892

 * 22 January 1892 - AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The date Edvard Munch wrote about seeing the sky turn blood red, as mentioned by characters in the opening.


 * 1892 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * TEXT: Five Points District, New York City. 1892.


 * 189X - AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers
 * 189X - AUDIO: The Bloodless Soldier
 * Follows directly on from The Mahogany Murders.
 * NOTE: Authorial intent places this series in 1892. (BFX: Jago & Litefoot: Series One)


 * 189X - AUDIO: The Bellova Devil
 * 189X - AUDIO: The Spirit Trap
 * ELLIE: (possessed) They're here. Come, my brothers. Welcome to your new bodies. Welcome to the 19th century.


 * 189X - AUDIO: The Similarity Engine
 * JAGO: And don't you forget it. Now, where was I? Gentlemen, what have I not done? You will no doubt have heard of the Palace Theatre, of which I had the good fortune of being the owner, manager, and Master of Ceremonies until its unfortunate demise in the demonic deflagration a few years back.


 * 189X - AUDIO: Litefoot and Sanders
 * NOTE: Directly after The Similarity Engine.


 * 189X - AUDIO: The Necropolis Express
 * 189X - AUDIO: The Theatre of Dreams
 * Before 25 December 1892 - WC: Vastra Investigates
 * JENNY: Well, it is nearly Christmas.


 * c. 25 December 1892 - TV: The Great Detective
 * JENNY: Merry Christmas!


 * 24 - 25 December 1892 - TV: The Snowmen
 * TOMBSTONE: Clara Oswin Oswald. Remember me, we shall meet again. Born November 23 1866, died December 24, 1892.

1893

 * 189X - AUDIO: The Ruthven Inheritance
 * DAVID SACKER (The Age of Revolution): Diary of Doctor Ormond Sacher, 1892. Today I was once again embroiled in another of professor Litefoot's escapades. [Meaning Sacker dies in either 1892 or 1893]


 * 189X - AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales
 * NOTE: Directly after The Ruthven Inheritance


 * August 189X - AUDIO: The Man at the End of the Garden
 * JAGO: Well it's August.


 * 189X - AUDIO: Swan Song
 * JAGO: Well yes, but it's my theatre. I'm rather fond of it, you see.
 * LITEFOOT: You've only been here a few months.
 * JAGO: Our pantomime in December. That Robin Hood cove was quoting it. [Jago moved into the Regency Theatre in The Theatre of Dreams. This sets that story in the previous year, since a) Jago's only been in the theatre for a few months, and b) the previous story was set in August]


 * 189X - AUDIO: Chronoclasm
 * PAYNE: 1890, give or take a few years.
 * LITEFOOT: It's odd. You an I, Jago and Miss Leela. We've come across some of the most vile and appalling things over the last year or so...


 * 189X - AUDIO: Jago in Love
 * 189X - AUDIO: Beautiful Things
 * 1893 - AUDIO: The Lonely Clock
 * 1893 - AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers
 * NOTE: Directly after The Lonely Clock.
 * LITEFOOT (The Age of Revolution): Or to put it another way, we're only a few days older than we were in 1893.


 * 1893 - AUDIO: The Final Act
 * LITEFOOT: He said he set it for 1893.
 * JAGO: Thank goodness for that.. we've arrived.


 * 1893 - AUDIO: Tangled Web
 * DOCTOR: This is Ireland, 1893.


 * 1893 - TV: The Crimson Horror
 * DOCTOR: Okay, so. Not London 1893. Yorkshire 1893. Near enough.


 * 1893 - TV: Clarence and the Whispermen
 * 1893 - TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * TEXT: London 1893 - prison cell


 * c. 1893 - TV: Deep Breath

1894

 * 1894 - AUDIO: The Demon of Paris
 * DOCTOR (The Relics of Time): Paris 1894, that's our next stop.


 * c.1894 - AUDIO: The Cars That Ate London!
 * c.1894 - AUDIO: A Photograph to Remember
 * September 1894 - AUDIO: The Ghosts of Greenwich
 * PLUMSTEAD: I've absorbed approximately forty-two years from his future timeline.
 * STRAX: You mean, I'm nearly sixty? [Meaning Strax is nearly 18]
 * STRAX (A Good Man Goes to War): It's all right. I've had a good life. I'm nearly twelve. [set in 1888]
 * VASTRA: About three weeks ago.
 * VASTRA: September 3rd; a sighting of a spectral agency in southeast London

1896

 * 1896 - COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons
 * TEXT: 18 Causeyside Street, Paisley, Scotland, 1896.


 * 1896 - COMIC: The Steampunk Conundrum
 * TEXT: San Francisco 1896.

1898

 * 1898 - AUDIO: Grand Theft Cosmos
 * LUCIE: Yeah, yeah. It's 1898 and the consequences for the timeline could be disasterous.

1899

 * c. 1899 - TV: Fragments
 * GIRL: He's coming, the one you're looking for. But the century will turn twice before you find each other again.
 * JACK: Ooo. Are you for real? You mean I have to wait a hundred years to find him? What'll I do in the meantime?


 * c. 1899 - AUDIO: The Justice of Jalxar
 * DOCTOR: ...that business with Greel, over 10 years ago! [Referring to the events of The Talons of Weng-Chiang]


 * 26 December 1899 - AUDIO: Castle of Fear
 * NYSSA: Boxing day, you said. It sounds utterly barbaric.
 * NYSSA: Well, I did and I didn't, but 1899 is too primitive for me.


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