1963

March

 * 28 - Lizzie Lewis is murdered by Ed Morgan. (TW: Ghost Machine)
 * Late March - The TARDIS materializes in the junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane, owned by I.M. Foreman, in the Shoreditch area of London, its navigational systems and chameleon circuit damaged by radiation from the Hand of Omega. (DW: Revelation of the Daleks) While the Doctor attempts repairs and works out a plan for safely disposing of the Hand on Earth, Susan, against his wishes, registers at the nearby Coal Hill School. Britain, meanwhile, is in the grip of an unusual cold wave. (TN: Time and Relative)

April

 * 1 - The Doctor fights off an invasion by the Cold. (TN: Time and Relative)

October

 * Late October - The Doctor has made arrangements with a local funeral parlor to bury the Hand of Omega in a nearby churchyard. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Concerned about the unusual behaviour of one of her students, Susan Foreman, Coal Hill School history teacher Barbara Wright attempts to investigate by, among other things, visiting the address given as Susan's, only to discover that it's a junkyard. She eventually builds up the courage to ask science teacher Ian Chesterton for advice. (DW: An Unearthly Child)
 * Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton follow Susan Foreman to a junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane. Further investigation leads to a tense encounter with a mysterious old man attempting to enter a police box. Forcing their way inside the box, they discover a strange vessel capable of travelling in time and space. The old man, fearful that the two schoolteachers might change history by revealing what they have seen, kidnaps them by activating the vessel, the TARDIS, which whisks the group away to prehistoric Earth. (DW: An Unearthly Child)

November

 * Sometime before the 22nd - The Spacefleet fighter Tisiphone, which had fallen into a temporal rift in 2547 during a battle with Daleks, exits the temporal rift near Earth space. Its crew manages to escape to England. (NA: Return of the Living Dad)
 * 22 - The Kennedy assassination takes place.
 * 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy, is himself assassinated in Dallas by Jack Ruby. (MA: Who Killed Kennedy)

Unknown date

 * The Nemesis passes by Earth, heralding the Kennedy assassination. (DW: Silver Nemesis)
 * The Doctor returns to finish incomplete business and collect the Hand of Omega. The ICMG division of the British Army investigates the presence of the Renegade Dalek faction. They battle their rivals, the Imperal Daleks, led by Davros in an event later known as the Shoreditch Incident. More trivially, a new science fiction television series debuts on the BBC. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)

Unknown date

 * Nyssa is born on Traken.


 * In John Smith's fictional future, he dies in this year (DW: The Family of Blood)

April

 * 27 - Russell T Davies, Head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who from 2005-2009 and writer of Damaged Goods is born in Swansea, Wales.

September

 * 19 - Filming ofDoctor Who commences with a one day shoot at Ealing

October

 * 09 - Filming resumes at Ealing for An Unearthly Child.
 * 11 - Filming ends at Ealing for An Unearthly Child
 * 11 - One day studio filming at Lime Grove Studio D for An Unearthly Child.
 * 25 - One day studio filming at Lime Grove Studio D for An Unearthly Child. Margot Maxine, an extra hired as a member of the tribe, walks out at 3:00 after refusing to have her teeth blackened

November

 * 01 - One day studio filming at Lime Grove Studio D for An Unearthly Child.
 * 08 - One day studio filming at Lime Grove Studio D for An Unearthly Child.
 * 22 - Filming of an episode of The Daleks is interrupted by the news of the Kennedy Assassination, but resumes later the same day.
 * 23 - Doctor Who debuts on UK television with the first broadcast of An Unearthly Child. A few parts of the UK are unable to view the episode due to a power cut.
 * 30 - "An Unearthly Child" is broadcast for second time as many viewers missed the original screening as a result of a power cut. The rebroadcast is followed by the first broadcast of "The Cave of Skulls" (An Unearthly Child Episode 2)

December

 * 07 - First broadcast of "The Forest of Fear" (An Unearthly Child Episode 3).
 * 14 - First broadcast of "The Firemaker" (An Unearthly Child Episode 4).
 * 21 - First broadcast of "The Dead Planet" (The Daleks Episode 1).
 * 28 - "The Survivors" First Broadcast (The Daleks Episode 2)

Unknown Date

 * Julian Bleach, who plays the Ghostmaker in Torchwood and Davros in Doctor Who is born in Bournemouth.

Reference

 * A History of the Universe by Lance Parkin