1900

In January, 1900, Joan Redfern's husband, Oliver, (TV: Human Nature) and Private Tommy Watkins (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault) were killed in the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer Wars.

On 17 May, the First Doctor was present at the Relief of Mafeking. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)

In December, the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot met the supernatural detective Thomas Carnacki in Kent. (PROSE: Foreign Devils)

Constance Bassett, the mother of Tommy Brockless, died. (TV: To the Last Man)

February

 * 21 - Sydney Arnold, who would play Perkins in TV: The Highlanders, was born in London.