Theory:Timeline - Daleks

This page lists appearances of the Daleks - and their creator, Davros - in the order in which they experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Limiting factors
Daleks with cone-shaped ears, luminosity dischargers, are usually seen during or after the Last Great Time War, while Daleks with bulb-shaped ears are usually seen before.

Non-slatted Daleks are usually seen before TV: The Chase although the Daleks in TV: Genesis of the Daleks and TV: The Power of the Daleks are slatted and both take place before The Chase. These are the only exceptions to this rule as they cannot be set later in the timeline.

Any story where the Daleks have not developed space travel must take place before COMIC: Power Play.

Any story where the Daleks do not know that the Doctor is a Time Lord must take place before TV: Resurrection of the Daleks; this therefore includes TV: The Chase, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and TV The Evil fo the Daleks.

Any story where Skaro exists must take place before TV:Remembrance of the Daleks where it is destroyed, which is referenced in TV: Twice Upon a Time, AUDIO: Terror Firma and AUDIO: Daleks Among Us. Skaro is devastated, following the events of the Time War (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) and is restored by TV: The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar. "The Destroyer of Skaro" is a name for the Doctor recorded by the Testimony in the far future. (TV: Twice Upon a Time) Any story featuring Davros with an intact wheelchair has to happen before COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! in which Abslom Daak chain swords his torso. Any story where Davros has an intact personality must take place prior to Terror Firma.

Dalek time travel is inconsistent. They have time machines in TV: The Chase, TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and AUDIO: Daleks Among Us. Dalek time travel is "crude and nasty" in TV: Remembrance of the Daleks and their time travel technology can rival the Time Lords by the Gallifrey audio series, leading to the Last Great Time War.

However, Davros' personality is replaced by an Emperor Dalek in Terror Firma, setting it and Remembrance of the Daleks after the Time War, unless Davros was restored to his original personality during the Time War (which has never been stated in any story). Dalek time travel technology is clearly advanced in TV: The Magician's Apprentice, with Colony Sarff being sent to multiple points in time (including the end of the universe where the Sisterhood of Karn are). It is never stated that the Daleks or Davros have looked into their personal future.

We Are the Daleks!

 * PROSE: We are the Daleks!
 * The Daleks are created from humans.

Genesis of the Daleks

 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice (child Davros)
 * TV: The Witch's Familiar (child Davros)
 * AUDIO: Innocence
 * AUDIO: Purity
 * AUDIO: Corruption
 * AUDIO: Guilt
 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks
 * Davros creates the Daleks.

Genesis of Evil and Space

 * COMIC: Genesis of Evil
 * The Daleks evolve from humanoids, as described in The Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Random Ghosts
 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * In the default time period of Random Ghosts and The Lights of Skaro, the Daleks haven't yet developed space travel.


 * COMIC: The Message of Mystery
 * Susan Foreman inadvertently lands on Skaro, centuries before the Daleks embarked on universal conquest.


 * COMIC: The Daleks Destroy the Zomites
 * The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright inadvertently help destroy a pest of the Daleks on Skaro. The Daleks allow them to leave peacefully, but warn them to never return.


 * COMIC: Power Play
 * The Daleks gain space travel.


 * COMIC: Duel of the Daleks
 * COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge
 * COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor
 * COMIC: Plague of Death
 * COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons
 * COMIC: Eve of War
 * COMIC: The Archives of Phryne
 * COMIC: The Rogue Planet
 * COMIC: Impasse
 * AUDIO: Jubilee
 * The Daleks use transolar discs. They invade in 1903, so probably early in Dalek history as opposed to time travellers.


 * COMIC: Jungle Adventure
 * The Second Doctor and his grandchildren destroy a group of primitive, non-slatted Daleks who are constructing metal tracks on which to travel on an unidentified planet. These Daleks do not explicitly recognise the trio.


 * COMIC: Attack of the Daleks
 * The Second Doctor and his grandchildren elude a group of colourful, non-slatted Daleks on an unidentified planet. These Daleks do not explicitly recognise the trio.


 * 2135- COMIC: The Doctor Strikes Back
 * The Doctor says that the Daleks have garrisons on nearly every planet in the universe at this time (away from Earth's galaxy?). The Second Doctor is the Supreme Dalek's arch enemy.


 * COMIC: The Terrorkon Harvest
 * COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear
 * Centuries after Genesis of Evil.


 * COMIC: Shadow of Humanity
 * COMIC: The Emissaries of Jevo
 * COMIC: The Road to Conflict
 * The Daleks elect to search for Earth.

The Dalek Occupation of the Solar System

 * COMIC: Return of the Elders
 * The Daleks' invasion is initially repelled, but they vow to return.


 * COMIC: The Defeat of the Daleks
 * The First Doctor and Ian Chesterton fight space-faring Daleks who refered to them both as "Earthmen".


 * COMIC: The Daleks Are Foiled
 * The First Doctor, Ian and Barbara Wright eluded a group of Daleks equipped with an Earthmen Detector.


 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks
 * The Daleks do not yet have time travel. They are ruled by the Golden Emperor. They have conflict with humanity, which is not confined to Earth. Therefore this has been placed during the First Dalek War, before the invasion of Earth.


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests
 * The Daleks plan the invasion of Earth as a means for Project Degravitate.


 * 2157 - PROSE: Lucifer Rising
 * The Daleks are attacking Earth colonies.


 * 2157 - PROSE: GodEngine
 * The invasion has begun; the Daleks also attack Mars.


 * AUDIO: The Mutant Phase
 * Set during the occupation, though not for the alternate future Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Masters of Earth
 * Set in 2163 during the occupation, but as the Sixth Doctor repeatedly insists that the invasion will end in a year, it really has to be set in 2166.


 * 2167 - TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * The Daleks' Master Plan, GodEngine, Lucifer Rising and The Mutant Phase date the Dalek invasion to 2157. The TV story itself is set 10 years later. The Doctor believes that The Daleks was "a million years" in the future, and that Invasion is "about the middle history of the Daleks." However, in the novelisation, this is changed, and the Doctor theorises that their defeat in Daleks may not have been complete, that the Daleks have "tremendous powers of survival," or that there may have been other colonies on other parts of Skaro. He also notes "they’ve evolved too," implying Daleks comes before Invasion.


 * AUDIO: Lucie Miller
 * AUDIO: To the Death
 * The Daleks are familiar with the Monk, but the Daleks are natives to this era except the Dalek Time Controller, who will have gave them the knowledge of the Monk. The Daleks invade Earth again in the 22nd century.


 * PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
 * Possible anomaly, as it clashes with Lucie Miller and To the Death.


 * TV: The Daleks
 * 500 years after the Neutronic War, not the Thousand Year War, and generations before Planet of the Daleks. A Dalek with this design is featured in The Space Museum.


 * AUDIO: The Curse of the Daleks
 * After the Daleks and 50 years after a Dalek War that humanity won.


 * TV: The Space Museum (cameo)
 * Placed here on the assumption/conjecture that the museum Dalek is a relic of the occupation or from Skaro.

23rd century campaign

 * PROSE: An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony
 * Davros oversees the bombardment of the Earth colony of Phobos in the 23rd century. He has a "wizened hand", placing this before Revelation of the Daleks for him. Anomalously, Davros is depicted as he appeared in Genesis of the Daleks rather than Resurrection of the Daleks.


 * GAME: Dalek Attack
 * Davros, operating alongside a golden Dalek Emperor, leads an invasion of Earth in the year 2254, which is thwarted by the Seventh Doctor and Ace. He appears with an organic hand, placing this before Revelation of the Daleks. Davros has stolen a Time Ring, which he has possibly used to travel to an earlier period of Dalek history. As such, the Time Lords personally intervene to stop him.

Early Time Travel

 * TV: Day of the Daleks
 * The Daleks have invaded Earth before, so after the The Dalek Invasion of Earth. They have "discovered the secret of time travel." They have had another go at the invasion. They know the Doctor but do not recognize his third incarnation.


 * COMIC: The Disintegrator
 * During the Third Doctor's time on 20th century Earth, the Daleks, based on the Moon, loan their weaponry for a human accomplice to rob the Bank of England but are thwarted by the Doctor. These Daleks are slatted and recognise the Third Doctor.


 * AUDIO: Glorious Goodwood
 * During the latter period of the Third Doctor's time with UNIT on 20th century Earth, the Daleks pursue Sarah Jane Smith but are routed by the army.


 * COMIC: The Trodos Ambush
 * The Daleks are non-slatted and can detect the Doctor's journey to Trodos, hinting at an understanding of time travel.


 * COMIC: Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine
 * Ian and Barbara thwart the Daleks' attempt to paralyse the First Doctor.


 * COMIC: Rescued from the Daleks
 * The Doctor and Ian rescue a human scientist from the Daleks.


 * TV: The Chase
 * The Daleks are based on Skaro again and are now slatted. They have a dimensionally transcendental timeship but explicitly want revenge for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, implying it is not too long after that story. In the Mission to the Unkown novelisation, the Doctor explains that "the Daleks have been studying time for almost a century," implying the Daleks from The Chase are native to the 40th century.


 * COMIC: The World That Waits
 * Follows The Chase.

The Dalek Wars

 * 2430 - COMIC: Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom
 * Humanity has settled in the New Earth System for fifty years since 2380.


 * TV: Death to the Daleks
 * This occurs a generation after a Dalek War and the Daleks are less advanced than the ones in Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks. They know who the Third Doctor is and know about the Tardis. According to PROSE: The Colony of Lies, a Dalek war breaks out in 2459.


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests
 * A Dalek Emperor oversees the planning for Operation Divide and Conquer.


 * 2540 - TV: Frontier in Space
 * Operation Divide and Conquer is thwarted by the Third Doctor. The Daleks attack.


 * 2540 - TV: Planet of the Daleks
 * Follows Frontier in Space.


 * AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks
 * Daleks and humans are at war with one another.


 * COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer
 * Set during the Dalek Wars.


 * COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks
 * Set during the Dalek Wars.


 * 26th century - PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks
 * Set during the Earth Empire's war with the Daleks and features the bronze Daleks, so they are not confined to Time War related stories.


 * 2570 - PROSE Love and War / AUDIO Love and War
 * Towards the end of the war.

Aftermath of the Wars

 * AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks
 * Set in the 45th century, but these Daleks have been in cryogenic suspension for 17 centuries.


 * AUDIO: Energy of the Daleks
 * Set in 2025, these Daleks have travelled back in time to destroy humanity before the Dalek Wars. They refer to the "Dalek Empire" and have high-functioning Robomen.


 * COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks
 * Dalek War Machines, led by the Golden Emperor, invade Earth's solar system in the year 2400, beginning with the conquest of Venus. (PROSE: Break-through)


 * PROSE: Red for Danger
 * Months after Invasion of the Daleks.


 * COMIC: The Oil Well
 * The Daleks anticipate an invasion of Earth.


 * PROSE: The Secret of the Mountain
 * The Daleks are forced off Venus by a human fleet.


 * COMIC: City of the Daleks
 * Venusian Jeff Stone takes an undercover mission to Skaro.


 * COMIC: The Humanoids
 * The Stones find the Daleks' humanoid servants on Mars.


 * PROSE: The Small Defender
 * An advance party of Daleks land in Kent but are thwarted.


 * COMIC: Monsters of Gurnian
 * The Stones discover a Dalek presence on Gurnian.


 * PROSE: Break-through
 * The Daleks have been driven out of the solar system. The Space Army arrives on Skaro and forces the Daleks to surrender.


 * COMIC: Battle for the Moon
 * While the Golden Emperor ostensibly negotiates peace terms, Daleks based on the Moon attempt to destroy Earth but are thwarted.


 * COMIC: The Mechanical Planet
 * After two centuries of peace, the Golden Emperor forces Earth to return the Daleks' confiscated weaponry so they can stop a rogue planet, which is later traced to the Mechonoids. (COMIC: The World That Waits) He then vows to conquer Earth and the other planets.


 * PROSE: The Secret Struggle
 * COMIC: Treasure of the Daleks
 * The Daleks are opposed by Unispace Security.


 * PROSE: The Five-Leaf Clover
 * COMIC: The Invisible Invaders
 * On Skaro, the Daleks repel an invasion by invisible Birdmen.


 * PROSE: The Log of the "Gypsy Joe"
 * Set in October 2612.


 * PROSE: Manhunt
 * COMIC: Masters of the World
 * The Daleks are opposed by Unispace Security.


 * COMIC: The Dalek Trap
 * PROSE: The Outlaw Planet
 * COMIC: Sara Kingdom: Space Security Agent
 * Sara Kingdom is alive.


 * PROSE: The Living Death
 * COMIC: The Super Sub
 * COMIC: The Secret of the Emperor
 * PROSE: Diamond Dust
 * COMIC: The Brain Tappers
 * PROSE: Terror Task Force
 * PROSE: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!
 * COMIC: Planet of Serpents
 * PROSE: Nightmare
 * COMIC: Flood!!!
 * PROSE: Timechase
 * PROSE: The Doomsday Machine
 * PROSE: Report from an Unknown Planet
 * PROSE: The Fugitive
 * PROSE: The Castaway
 * PROSE: The Seeds of Destruction
 * PROSE: Assassination Squad
 * AUDIO: The Destroyers
 * Sara Kingdom is alive.


 * 4000 - TV: Mission to the Unknown
 * 4000 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * Sara dies. The Daleks have time machines. The Daleks are unaware of the Time Lords.


 * TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * The Daleks are developing time travel. Skaro exists. The Daleks are unaware of the Time Lords.


 * COMIC: Bringer of Darkness
 * Set an unspecified amount of time after Evil. The Doctor discovers the Daleks did not meet their final end and the Emperor rules the Daleks again.


 * PROSE: The Eighth Wonder of the World
 * After The Daleks' Master Plan.


 * COMIC: Children of the Revolution (human factor Daleks)
 * The Daleks infected with the human factor hide on the planet Kyrol.


 * AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks
 * Humanity at this point has encountered the Daleks before, but these humans are unfamiliar with them. The Daleks know of the Time Lords.


 * COMIC: The Exterminator
 * COMIC: The Threat from Beneath
 * COMIC: Return of the Daleks
 * COMIC: The Dalek Revenge
 * AUDIO: Fear of the Daleks
 * The Daleks have a crystal-based command network.


 * AUDIO: The Elite

Return of Davros

 * TV: The Pilot
 * Set in the past according to the Doctor. Steven Moffat confirmed that the Movellans are more human than the ones in Destiny of the Daleks, placing it before that story. Bronze Daleks are fighting the war.


 * AUDIO: Order of the Daleks
 * These Daleks crashed on their way back to Skaro from the invasion of Kantra, which was mentioned in Destiny.


 * c. 4949 - TV: Destiny of the Daleks
 * "Thousands of years" after the Daleks were created, Davros is awakened and later put in suspended animation. Neverland mentions the year 4949 in relation to the Dalek-Movellan War as recorded in the Matrix on Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO:  Alien Heart
 * Set during the War.


 * AUDIO: Dalek Soul
 * TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
 * 90 years after the events of Destiny, Davros is taken out of suspended animation to cure the Movellan virus. The Daleks know of the Time Lords, setting this after The Daleks' Master Plan and Evil of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony
 * Davros oversees the bombardment of the Earth colony of Phobos in the 23rd century. He has a "wizened hand", placing this before Revelation of the Daleks. Anomalously, Davros is depicted as he appeared in Genesis of the Daleks rather than Resurrection of the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Davros
 * Between Resurrection and Revelation. TransAllied, Inc was formed back in the 38th century.


 * TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Juggernauts
 * Davros crashes on Lethe but is presumably recovered by the Renegade Daleks.


 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
 * Foreshadows Remembrance, Davros' torso is cut, leading to the last vestige of his humanoid form in Remembrance.


 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros
 * Davros is leading a force of Imperial Daleks. His skirt matches that of a Dalek. He has not adapted to his Emperor casing. These Daleks lose their memories at the end of this story, perhaps explaining why Davros is on trial in the next story.


 * AUDIO: We Are The Daleks
 * The Daleks do not recognise the Seventh Doctor. They are Imperial Daleks on the cover. The Emperor is not Davros and appears to be the one from Evil of the Daleks. The Dalek tower is probably the one from Asylum of the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Davros Mission
 * AUDIO: Innocence
 * AUDIO: Purity
 * AUDIO: Corruption
 * AUDIO: Guilt
 * Davros is being put on trial due to the Daleks having their memories wiped. He becomes Emperor once more.


 * COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * An Imperial Dalek is in 1963, just before Remembrance.


 * TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * The Doctor rhetorically states that the Supreme Dalek is a "thousand years" from Skaro. The Doctor is remembered as the "Destroyer of Skaro" in Twice Upon a Time by Testimony.
 * AUDIO: In Remembrance
 * During Remembrance of the Daleks, an Imperial Dalek ends up in 2016 and learns that the Daleks will be defeated in 1963. Returning to 1963, the Dalek attempts to change the course of history but is stopped by an older Ace.

Empire and Emperor

 * PROSE: War of the Daleks
 * Follows Remembrance. Skaro survives according to the Dalek Prime but his plan appears unlikely and there are alternate possibilities to Skaro's fate. The factory ship is the same one from TV: The Power of the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests
 * The Dalek factory ship crash lands on Vulcan.


 * TV: The Power of the Daleks
 * The Doctor throws the capsule back through the vortex to Vulcan c. 1820 in War of the Daleks. The Daleks recognize the Second Doctor. Their capsule is bigger on inside, hinting that time travel maybe involved. The humans are unfamiliar with Daleks. The trailer states that this story takes place in 2020. The Daleks are powered by static, probably due to limited resource after being trapped on Vulcan for 200 years.


 * AUDIO: Daleks Among Us
 * Davros believes Skaro has been destroyed. Davros survives, and his personality is intact The Daleks have time machines and have spread across the universe.


 * AUDIO: Terror Firma
 * Davros's escape pod enters the time vortex after the explosion of his mothership but his memory is unstable so his memories are probably scrambled, allowing him to forget the previous two stories. He believes Skaro has been destroyed and his personality is subsumed by that of the Dalek Emperor. He is more unstable than in War of the Daleks or Daleks Among Us.


 * AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * The Daleks recognise Charley Pollard from Terror Firma.


 * COMIC: Fire and Brimstone
 * Set in the 53rd century.


 * AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
 * Lee Sullivan's artwork depicts the Golden Emperor. A Special Weapons Dalek appears. Skaro exists. It is 3000 years after the 26th century according to AUDIO: The Judas Gift, which is Bev Tarrant's native time.


 * PROSE: Private Investigations
 * The Seventh Doctor and Ace assist a resistance movement against the Daleks on Malite.


 * COMIC: Metamorphosis
 * The Daleks recognise the Seventh Doctor and Ace, who foil their plot to send Human/Dalek hybrids to Earth.


 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * The Daleks have dimensionally transcendental timeships and a crystal-based command network. They invade Gallifrey, presumably ending their peace.


 * WC: Shada
 * AUDIO: The Mutant Phase
 * The Daleks are ruled by a Dalek Emperor - depicted on an unused cover as the Golden Emperor.


 * AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Seasons of Fear
 * The Daleks now have their own equivalent of the Eye of Harmony.


 * AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks
 * PROSE: Kalendorf
 * Attack takes place during this story
 * AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 1
 * AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 2
 * AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 3
 * AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 4


 * PROSE: Natalie's Diary
 * Takes place during the Daleks' initial invasion.


 * PROSE: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * The Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush visit the Dalek-devastated world of Guria.


 * AUDIO: The Human Factor
 * AUDIO: Return of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: "Death to the Daleks!"
 * PROSE: Suz
 * Runs concurrently throughout from Invasion of the Daleks to "Death to the Daleks!".
 * PROSE: Alby
 * Takes place during Alby Brook's search for Susan Mendes.


 * AUDIO: Project Infinity
 * AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One
 * AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Two
 * AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Three
 * AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Four
 * PROSE: Museum Peace
 * The Dalek Empire is apparently all but destroyed but Dalek Empire III reveals that they survived.

Dalek Supreme

 * AUDIO: Renaissance of the Daleks
 * The Daleks are rebuilding. [elaborate?]


 * AUDIO: The Exterminators
 * Two thousand years after the War in Dalek Empire I and II. The Daleks are ruled by a Dalek Supreme.


 * AUDIO: The Healers
 * AUDIO: The Survivors
 * AUDIO: The Demons
 * AUDIO: The Warriors
 * AUDIO: The Future
 * PROSE: Natalie's Diary
 * PROSE: Mutually Assured Survival

Cold War with the Time Lords

 * PROSE: Father Time (cameo)
 * The Eighth Doctor sees a gunmetal grey Dalek in a vision of his future.


 * PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows (cameo)
 * Looking into his future through the Tomorrow Window, the Eighth Doctor sees a ruined city, with many buildings on fire, a Dalek saucer hovering overhead, with gunmetal grey Daleks below scanning the ruins.


 * AUDIO: Dark Eyes
 * AUDIO: The Great War
 * AUDIO: Fugitives
 * AUDIO: Tangled Web
 * AUDIO: X and the Daleks
 * The Dalek Time Controller and Time Lords are using temporal technology against each other. No higher-ranking Daleks appear.


 * AUDIO: The Traitor
 * AUDIO: Time's Horizon
 * AUDIO: Eyes of the Master
 * AUDIO: The Monster of Montmartre
 * AUDIO: Master of the Daleks
 * The Time Controller's faction conquers Earth in the 20th century.


 * AUDIO: Eye of Darkness
 * The Daleks are ruled by a Supreme Dalek.


 * AUDIO: Gallifrey
 * AUDIO: Arbitration
 * AUDIO: Extermination
 * AUDIO: Ascension
 * The Daleks are acting against Gallifrey. They are invading other timelines. They are depicted with cone-shaped ears. They refer to their alliance with Irving Braxiatel in Death and the Daleks. They remember Romana II from The Apocalypse Element and say she has shown the Daleks mercy before (The Time of the Daleks).


 * PROSE: Birth of a Legend
 * After exterminating the Mechonoids, the Cult of Skaro is formed and the Time War has been predicted.


 * PROSE: Mission to Galacton
 * The Dalek Empire, at its height prior to the Time War, conquers the planet Galacton. The Daleks are depicted as bronze.


 * COMIC: Harvest of the Daleks
 * The Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts find an "ancient" bronze Dalek harvest ship collecting children for their battle computers. The Doctor reasons that it was taken "out of mothballs" for the Time War.
 * From the perspective of humanity, the Daleks suddenly disappear "thousands of years" prior to the year 200,100. As recalled by Jack Harkness, a former Time Agent from the 51st century, the Daleks vanished from time and space at a point when they were the "greatest threat in the universe." (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

The Last Great Time War

 * AUDIO: Soldier Obscura


 * AUDIO: The Master's Dalek Plan


 * AUDIO: Shockwave


 * AUDIO: He Who Wins
 * Leads directly into Beneath the Viscoid.


 * AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid


 * AUDIO: The Good Master


 * AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm


 * AUDIO: Desperate Measures


 * AUDIO: Unity


 * AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus / Echoes of War / The Conscript / One Life


 * AUDIO: The Lords of Terror / Planet of the Ogrons / In the Garden of Death /Jonah


 * AUDIO: Fugitive in Time/The War Valeyard


 * PROSE: The Stranger


 * COMIC: The Bidding War
 * The Time Lords unleash the Great Vampires against the Dalek Fleet.


 * AUDIO: The Innocent / The Thousand Worlds / The Heart of the Battle


 * AUDIO: Legion of the Lost / A Thing of Guile / The Neverwhen
 * Skaro's history has been time locked to prevent further interference in their timeline.


 * AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex / The Eternity Cage / Eye of Harmony


 * AUDIO: Pretty Lies / The Lady of Obsidian / The Enigma Dimension


 * PROSE: Engines of War
 * 400 years after regenerating, the War Doctor vows to end the war.


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests
 * A fragmented Dalek transmission captured during the Time War speaks of an attack formation, the extermination of the Time Lords and an impending Dalek victory.


 * WC: The Last Day
 * The Gallifreyan city of Arcadia falls to the Daleks.


 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * Set shortly after Arcadia has fallen. The War Doctor survives the Last Great Time War, and with the help of his other twelve incarnations, destroys the fleet of Daleks concentrating fire on Gallifrey on the final day of the Time War.

Surviving the Time War

 * There are five known groups of Daleks which survive the Time War independently. four of the five are effective dead-ends of the timeline.

"Dead-ends"

 * TV: Dalek
 * PROSE: I Am a Dalek
 * Two separate lone Daleks survive the Time War by becoming stuck on Earth.


 * COMIC: Carnage Zoo / Flight and Fury / The Living Ghosts / Extermination of the Daleks
 * A group of Daleks survives the Time War.


 * TV: Bad Wolf
 * TV: The Parting of the Ways
 * The Dalek Emperor survives the Time War and ends up in the Sol system circa the year 199,900.

Cult of Skaro

 * TV: Army of Ghosts
 * TV: Doomsday
 * WC: Tardisode 13
 * The Cult of Skaro and many prisoners within the Genesis Ark, who escaped into the Void. At the end of Doomsday, the Cult emergency temporal shift, leading into further stories. Tardisode 13 is set during the Battle of Canary Wharf.


 * TV: Daleks in Manhattan
 * Skaro is referenced as being destroyed in The Time War.


 * TV: Evolution of the Daleks
 * The Cult has recently escaped Canary Wharf. At the end of Evolution of the Daleks, Dalek Caan again temporal shifts into the Time War.


 * TV: The Stolen Earth
 * Caan is an insane oracle after rescuing Davros from the Time War.


 * TV: Journey's End
 * TV: The Waters of Mars (cameo)
 * The Dalek appearing in Adelaide's flashback is from when the 26 planets appeared in the Earth's sky.

A new paradigm

 * TV: The Beast Below
 * The shadow of a Dalek is seen next to Churchill, Leading directly into Victory of the Daleks.


 * TV: Victory of the Daleks
 * Continues The Beast Below's cliffhanger. Surviving Daleks, seemingly made from Davros' cells from The Stolen Earth / Journey's End, awake the New Dalek Paradigm.


 * GAME: Return to Earth
 * GAME: Evacuation Earth
 * GAME: City of the Daleks
 * Acquiring the Eye of Time, the New Dalek Paradigm return to and rebuild Skaro. Led by a new Dalek Emperor, they exterminate humanity in 1963 but are confronted by the Eleventh Doctor, who destroys the Daleks and restores history.


 * GAME: The Mazes of Time
 * COMIC: The Only Good Dalek
 * In the 41st century, the New Dalek Paradigm are engaged against the Space Security Service, whose records of the Daleks span back to the Dalek War Machines, in a conflict which has lasted 100 years. Some decades after The Daleks' Master Plan, the Daleks recently lost Caridos in 3994.


 * TV: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
 * AUDIO: Living History
 * The Dalek is described as bronze, and depicted as a Time War-era Dalek on the cover.


 * TV: The Wedding of River Song
 * The New Dalek Paradigm.


 * GAME: The Eternity Clock
 * COMIC: The Dalek Project
 * AUDIO: The Dalek Transaction
 * A lone Dalek, one of a new "elite" breed of Kaled mutant, is found by UNIT after crashing to Earth. Its casing, seen on the cover, is a weathered bronze design.


 * TV: Asylum of the Daleks
 * While Skaro is in ruins and has been abandoned, the Prime Minister rules the Parliament of the Daleks, consisting of the New Paradigm's Supreme, Strategist and Drones with a majority of bronze Daleks. The Daleks' memories of the Doctor are wiped by Oswin Oswald.


 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * The bronze Daleks, seeking to prevent the Time Lords from returning to the universe, participate in the 900 year long Siege of Trenzalore, which begins no earlier than the 51st century (Theory:Timeline - The Church). 300 years into the siege, the Daleks attack the Church and regain their memories of the Doctor through Tasha Lem. At the end of the siege, the Daleks attempt to kill the Eleventh Doctor only to be destroyed by his regeneration.


 * PROSE: The Dalek Generation
 * The Dalek Time Controller is in its home time period. The Daleks know the Doctor. The New Dalek Paradigm is referenced. Dalek puppets appear.


 * AUDIO: Patient Zero
 * The Time Controller invades the Amethyst Viral Containment Station. The Daleks it is accompanied by, and the Controller itself, are depicted as having pre-Time War designs. The Time Controller is seemingly destroyed by the Sixth Doctor. However it survives, plunging back through Dalek history. (See Timeline - Dalek Time Controller)


 * GAME: The Doctor and the Dalek
 * TV: Into the Dalek
 * bronze Daleks and humans are at war with one another. The Dalek command net has records of the Daleks' post-Time War history. The Twelfth Doctor meets a "good Dalek" who he calls Rusty.


 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice
 * Davros 'should have been dust centuries ago'.


 * TV: The Witch's Familiar
 * Davros says that he and the Daleks rebuilt Skaro. Numerous types of Daleks are present, from bronze "Time War" Daleks to early Dalek War Machines. In old footage of Davros's and the Doctor's battles, Remembrance and The Stolen Earth are shown.


 * TV: Twice Upon a Time
 * Billions of years after Into the Dalek, the Twelfth Doctor catches up with Rusty who is living in seclusion from the rest of his kind on Villengard.

Other

 * PROSE: Warmonger (dream)
 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus (dream)
 * GAME: Dalek Attack
 * Davros, operating alongside a Dalek Emperor, leads an invasion of Earth in the year 2254, which is thwarted by the Seventh Doctor and Ace. According to PROSE: Head Games, the events of Dalek Attack are a simulation the Doctor created by fictional energies.


 * PROSE: The Also People (dream)

Unplaced

 * TV: The War Games (cameo)
 * AUDIO:  The Four Doctors
 * The earlier Daleks, those of the Battle of Pejorica, do not have Dalek Primes or Special Weapons Daleks. This would indicate that the Dalek Prime is not the same as the one from War of the Daleks. They do have Robomen, however.


 * PROSE: Hide and Seek
 * The Third Doctor and Jo Grant save refugees from being lured to a Dalek-occupied planet.


 * COMIC: *Sub Zero
 * The Daleks attack Sydney, intending to use it as a base to conquer Earth, but are defeated by the Third Doctor.


 * COMIC: The Planet of the Daleks
 * The Third Doctor is drawn to Skaro by the Daleks, seeking revenge for the events of *Sub Zero, but manages to elude them.


 * COMIC: The Return of the Daleks
 * The slatted Daleks make two unsucessful attempts to invade the planet Anhaut, separated by 800 years. In both instances, a Red Dalek leads silver drones.


 * COMIC: Happy Deathday (videogame)
 * AUDIO: The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase
 * Silver Daleks attempt to use the Quantum Gateway for the "conquest of infinity" but are stopped by the Fourth Doctor and Romana I.


 * TV: The Five Doctors (cameo)
 * A dark grey Dalek drone is taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: The Five Companions
 * Likely contemporary to The Five Doctors, a group of Daleks are found on an alternative Death Zone.


 * AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure
 * The Daleks, led by the Dalek Emperor, ally with the Cybermen in a gambit to destroy the Earth in 1988 by sabotaging a peace conference. This plot is thwarted by the Sixth Doctor.


 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * uses silver Daleks to menace the Graak within the Doctor's TARDIS.


 * AUDIO:  The Four Doctors
 * The later Daleks have a Dalek Prime and a Special Weapons Dalek.


 * AUDIO: Death and the Daleks
 * Not long after the Second Dalek War in real time. The Daleks aren't native to this time, and their involvement changes history. Benny is familiar with the Dalek-Movellan war - but this must be down to her time travel experience.


 * AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies
 * The Dalek timeship is dimensionally transcendental, sentient, and somewhat humanoid.


 * PROSE: Dead Romance
 * The Daleks and Time Lords make a treaty.


 * TV: Doctor Who
 * The Daleks, based on Skaro, execute the Master, and allow the Seventh Doctor to take his remains to Gallifrey. War of the Daleks confirms that this occurs before Skaro's destruction in Remembrance of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * PROSE: The Last Resort (cameo)
 * Daleks are seen in the time vortex fleeing another dimension.


 * AUDIO: The Dalek Trap
 * Daleks have time travel capabilities but are unable to escape the gravity of a black hole. They also know of the Time Lords and the Doctor.


 * GAME: Dalek Supremacy
 * Daleks of the New Dalek Paradigm defend their weapons bases from Cybus-style Cybermen, blue-armoured Sontarans and Silurian Hunters.


 * TV: Resolution
 * A Dalek reconnaissance scout with a bronze casing lands on Earth in the 9th century. Resurfacing in 2019, it makes a failed attempt to contact the Dalek Fleet using local communications technology. The Thirteenth Doctor believed the scout to be among the first to leave Skaro, perhaps the first to reach Earth. It knows the Doctor as an enemy of the Daleks.


 * PROSE: The Third Wise Man

aHistory Timeline
This pre-Time War timeline is from the third edition of aHistory. Most of the dates given here are speculative.


 * 683: AUDIO: Innocence
 * 696: AUDIO: Purity
 * 709: AUDIO: Corruption
 * 709: AUDIO: Davros / Corruption
 * 759: AUDIO: Guilt
 * 760: TV: Genesis of the Daleks
 * 1763: COMIC: Genesis of Evil
 * 1765: COMIC: Genesis of Evil
 * 1765: COMIC: Power Play
 * 1765: COMIC: Duel of the Daleks
 * 1765: COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge
 * 1765: COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor
 * 1765: COMIC: Plague of Death
 * 1765: COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons
 * 1765: COMIC: Eve of War
 * 1765: COMIC: The Archives of Phryne
 * 1765: COMIC: The Rogue Planet
 * 1765: COMIC: Impasse
 * 2020: TV: The Power of the Daleks
 * 2050: AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks
 * 2146: COMIC: The Terrorkon Harvest
 * 2146: COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear
 * 2146: COMIC: Shadow of Humanity
 * 2146: COMIC: The Emissaries of Jevo
 * 2146: COMIC: The Road to Conflict
 * 2146: COMIC: Return of the Elders
 * 2167: TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * 2170: TV: The Chase
 * 2172: TV: Day of the Daleks
 * 2188: AUDIO: Lucie Miller
 * 2190: AUDIO: Lucie Miller / To the Death
 * 2199: PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
 * 2263: TV: The Daleks
 * 2430: COMIC: The Dogs of Doom
 * 2540: TV: Frontier in Space
 * 2540: TV: Planet of the Daleks
 * 2550: COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer
 * 2550: COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks
 * 2550: COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
 * 2560: PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks
 * 2560: AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks
 * 2600: TV: Death to the Daleks
 * 2602: AUDIO: Death and the Daleks
 * 2966: TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * 2970: COMIC: Bringer of Darkness
 * 2990: COMIC: Children of the Revolution
 * 3340: PROSE: The Dalek Factor
 * 3994: AUDIO: The Destroyers
 * 4000: TV: Mission to the Unknown
 * 4000: TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * 4015: COMIC: The Only Good Dalek
 * 4500: TV: Destiny of the Daleks
 * 4590: TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
 * 4600: AUDIO: Davros
 * 4615: TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * 4615: AUDIO: The Davros Mission
 * 4620: AUDIO: The Juggernauts
 * 4625: COMIC: Up Above the Gods / Emperor of the Daleks!
 * 4663: TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
 * 4693: PROSE: War of the Daleks
 * 4703: AUDIO: Terror Firma
 * 5200: COMIC: Fire and Brimstone
 * 5250: AUDIO: The Mutant Phase
 * 5256: AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
 * 5256: AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * 5425: AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks / The Human Factor
 * 5425: AUDIO: Return of the Daleks
 * 5426: AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks
 * 5427: AUDIO: The Fearless: Part 1 / The Fearless: Part 2 / The Fearless: Part 3 / The Fearless: Part 4
 * 5430: AUDIO: "Death to the Daleks!" / Project Infinity
 * 5436: AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One / Dalek War: Chapter Two / Dalek War: Chapter Three / Dalek War: Chapter Four
 * 5441: AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter Four
 * 7500: AUDIO: Dalek War: Chapter One / Dalek War: Chapter Two / Dalek War: Chapter Three / Dalek War: Chapter Four
 * 7520: AUDIO: The Exterminators / The Healers / The Survivors / The Demons / The Warriors / The Future
 * 18,000: AUDIO: Plague of the Daleks