1980s

At some point in the 1980s, Charlie Flecknoe invented and built a quantum link from Earth to the Moon. (PROSE: Apollo 23)

During the latter half of the decade, Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, instigated reform within the Soviet Union through the policies of "" and "". (AUDIO: Thin Ice) This ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)

In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Brendan Richards studied at the University of Cambridge. (PROSE: Housewarming)

In an alternate universe, the Doctor was exiled to Earth in 1996 instead of in this decade. (AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil)