Theory:Timeline - Cybermen

This page lists appearances of the Cybermen 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.

Origins
There are several conflicting origin stories for the Cybermen, including Mondasians converting themselves to deal with deteriorating planetary conditions (AUDIO: Spare Parts), ancient Cybermen predating the Mondasian Cybermen (COMIC: The Cybermen), and Mondas being another name for Marinus (COMIC: The World Shapers). These accounts seem impossible to reconcile. However, TV: World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls establish that Cybermen are subject to Parallel Evolution, explaining contradictory sources of their origins. For more information, consult Creation of the Cybermen.

Mondasian

 * TV: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
 * A Mondasian colony ship becomes trapped in the orbit of a black hole, before the inhabitants are eventually cyber-converted.


 * AUDIO: Spare Parts
 * In a parallel event, Cybermen also arise on Mondas, a planet which at this stage only has a few thousand inhabitants.


 * 1873 - AUDIO: The Silver Turk
 * 1954 - COMIC: The Good Soldier
 * 1968 - COMIC: The Cyber Empire
 * 1970 - COMIC: Cyber-Mole
 * 1976 (projection) - PROSE: No Future
 * TV: The Invasion
 * Subject to UNIT Dating but roughly between c.1969 and c.1979.


 * AUDIO: The Isos Network
 * AUDIO: The Blue Tooth
 * 1984 - AUDIO: The Reaping (end scene)
 * 1986 - TV: The Tenth Planet
 * 1988 - TV: Silver Nemesis
 * 1993 (alternate timeline) - COMIC: Time & Time Again
 * 2000 - PROSE: Vrs
 * 2006 - AUDIO: Human Resources
 * The survivors of The Tenth Planet have settled on Lonsis, however they are depicted as the Cybermen from The Invasion. They have never heard of Telos and know only of the Doctor from their meeting in The Tenth Planet


 * 2006, November - PROSE: Iceberg
 * The survivors of The Invasion plan a second invasion.


 * 2011 - TV: Closing Time
 * 2012 - GAME: The Eternity Clock
 * 2021 - AUDIO: The Harvest
 * 2070 - TV: The Moonbase
 * 2079 - TV: The Wheel in Space
 * AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen
 * The Cybermen launch a second attack on the Wheel, but are pulled into the Land of Fiction.


 * PROSE: The Janus Conjunction
 * Occurs some time during the second half of the 22nd century.


 * 2191 - PROSE: Killing Ground
 * COMIC: Assimilation²
 * COMIC: Dreadnought
 * Dated 23rd century


 * COMIC: Junkyard Demon
 * COMIC: Junkyard Demon II
 * The Brotherhood of Logicians are active.


 * 25th/26th century - TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * The Cybermen have been assumed extinct for five centuries.


 * circa 25th/26th century - TV: Attack of the Cybermen (Telos scenes)
 * Telos has explicitly been destroyed by the audio Telos so Attack cannot occur after Earthshock.


 * 2503 - AUDIO: Sword of Orion
 * AUDIO: Kingdom of Silver
 * Occurs light years from the Orion war front lines


 * AUDIO: Scorpius
 * AUDIO: Fear
 * AUDIO: Conversion
 * AUDIO: Telos
 * AUDIO: Outsiders
 * AUDIO: Terror
 * AUDIO: Machines
 * AUDIO: Extinction
 * 2526 - TV: Earthshock
 * AUDIO: Silver Lining
 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * 26XX - AUDIO: Return to Telos
 * TV: Revenge of the Cybermen
 * 1940 - PROSE: Illegal Alien
 * The Cybermen are from the 30th century.


 * 3286 - WC: Real Time/AUDIO: Real Time*
 * 52nd century, some time after 5145 - A Good Man Goes to War
 * 54th century - COMIC: The Bidding War.
 * As recalled by the Ninth Doctor, the Cyber-Empire annexed Malleon in either the 5300s or the 5310s.
 * Again to the best of the Doctor's knowledge, he is in the year 5324 or 5325 as he witnesses the Cybermen ravage Nomicae.
 * 2005 - COMIC: The Flood
 * Highly advanced Cybermen travel back in time to 2005. However they are unable to convert non humans.


 * TV: Nightmare in Silver
 * The Cyber-Wars were 1,000 years ago when the Tiberian spiral galaxy was destroyed. This appears to be a different war to the one with Voga.


 * AUDIO: The Reaping
 * The Cyberleader is one of the last Cybermen.


 * AUDIO: The Gathering
 * The cyber-technology from The Reaping is used to enhance human medical technology.


 * End of the universe - COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen
 * Banished from Gallifrey by the Twelfth Doctor, Rassilon joins forces with the Cybermen.

Pete's World

 * 2007 (Pete's World) - TV: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
 * GAME: Save Paris
 * GAME: Cyber Assault
 * 2010 (Pete's World)/2007 (N-Space) - TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
 * Approximately 5 million cybermen travel through the void to N-Space. These Cybermen are eventually sucked back into the void by The Doctor


 * TV: The Next Doctor (TV story)
 * A group of Cybermen escape from the void and end up in London in the 1850s


 * TV: Cyberwoman
 * 2008 (N-Space) - PROSE: Made of Steel
 * COMIC: The Power of the Cybermen/Drones of Doom/Enemy Mine/Time of the Cybermen

Third universe

 * 2010s - AUDIO: Code Silver/Master of Worlds
 * Cybermen of a third universe attempt to conquer N-Space only to be destroyed by.

Unplaced

 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * Placed in the Death Zone by Borusa.


 * PROSE: Warmonger
 * AUDIO: The Tyrants of Logic
 * AUDIO: Hour of the Cybermen
 * Set in the 1980s.


 * COMIC: The Coming of the Cybermen
 * COMIC: Flower Power
 * COMIC: Eskimo Joe
 * COMIC: Masquerade
 * COMIC: The Time Museum
 * COMIC: The Champion
 * COMIC: Test Flight
 * COMIC: Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman
 * COMIC: Deathworld
 * COMIC: Black Legacy
 * COMIC: Exodus/Revelation!/Genesis!


 * AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure
 * The Cybermen work with the Daleks in an attempt to invade 1980s Earth, however it is unclear as to whether time travel is involved with their invasion. The Daleks claim to have invaded Earth in the past.


 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * Invasion of Trenzalore, use the Cybus model seen in Nightmare in Silver and in The Doctor Falls


 * AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was
 * Cybermen that sound like those from The Tenth Planet but have the appearance of those from The Invasion.
 * The Doctor encounters a Cybermen timesquad which had been dispatched into "the future" before making an emergency exit from the vortex into 500,002. Their distress signal was unanswered, so they then plan to cyberconvert 1942 Earth and bring restart the cyber race in 500,002. The remnants of the squad move between 20th century and the 5001st century every time there is a storm, until 2008. Their origin time is unknown.

aHistory Timeline
This timeline is from the third edition of aHistory. Most of the dates given here are speculative.
 * Birth of the Cybermen: COMIC: The Dead Heart, The Flesh Unbound, The Black Sky, The Hungry Sea, The Dark Flame, The Future Perfect
 * Birth of the Cybermen: TV: The Keys of Marinus
 * Birth of the Cybermen: COMIC: The Ugly Underneath
 * Birth of the Cybermen: COMIC: The World Shapers
 * Birth of the Cybermen: AUDIO: Spare Parts
 * 1873: AUDIO: The Silver Turk
 * 1954: COMIC: The Good Soldier
 * UNIT Year 1: TV: The Invasion
 * UNIT Year 3: AUDIO: The Blue Tooth
 * 1984: AUDIO: The Reaping
 * 1985: TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * 1986: TV: The Tenth Planet
 * 1988: TV: Silver Nemesis
 * 2005: COMIC: The Flood
 * 2006: AUDIO: Human Resources
 * 2006: AUDIO: The Gathering
 * 2006: PROSE: Iceberg
 * 2008: AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was
 * 2012: TV: Closing Time
 * 2021: AUDIO: The Harvest
 * 2068: TV: The Wheel in Space
 * 2070: TV: The Moonbase
 * 2109: AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen
 * 2191: PROSE: Killing Ground
 * 2296: COMIC: Dreadnought
 * 2485: COMIC: Junkyard Demon
 * 2485: COMIC: Junkyard Demon II
 * 2486: TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * 2495: TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * 2502: COMIC: Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman
 * 2503: AUDIO: Sword of Orion
 * 2505: AUDIO: Kingdom of Silver
 * 2514: AUDIO: Keepsake
 * 2515: AUDIO: Scorpius / Fear / Conversion / Telos
 * 2516: AUDIO: Outsiders / Terror / Machines / Extinction
 * 2526: TV: Earthshock
 * 2604: AUDIO: Silver Lining
 * 2606: AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * 2875: TV: Revenge of the Cybermen
 * 3286: WC: Real Time
 * 3980: COMIC: Deathworld
 * 4635: COMIC: Kane's Story
 * River Song: TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * 500,000: AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was