Theory:Timeline - Time Lords

This page lists appearances of Time Lords other than the Doctor and (usually) the Master in chronological order. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed as much as possible, but still with exceptions, that Time Lords meet in the same order. These cases will be noted. In many cases there are sequences of stories from different Time Lords' perspectives, where individual stories can not be compared.

Looms
Any story where looms are the dominant method of reproduction on Gallifrey must take place before PROSE: Lungbarrow.

President
Any story involving Romana as president must take place after PROSE: Lungbarrow and before AUDIO: Reborn, or after AUDIO: Ascension and before PROSE: Engines of War.

Series basics
Time Lord stories can very roughly be sorted into series based on medium / series
 * Doctor Who stories set on Gallifrey
 * Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords
 * Non-Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords.
 * Big Finish Gallifrey audio stories

Old Time

 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (flashback)
 * Rassilon overthrows the Pythia.


 * COMIC: The Final Chapter (flashback)
 * The Rassilon Era begins with Year Zero.


 * PROSE: The Pit (flashback)
 * The Time Lords fight the Yssgaroth.


 * PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet (flashback)
 * The Time Lords create the Web of Time, which brings logic and order to the universe.

The Doctor's Era

 * TV: The War Games
 * PROSE: World Game
 * PROSE: The Two Doctors (prologue)
 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * The Time Lords warn the Doctor of the Master's arrival on Earth.


 * TV: The Three Doctors
 * Omega attempts to return from the anti-matter universe.


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin
 * The Time Lords learn the Eye of Harmony is beneath the Panopticon.


 * TV: The Invasion of Time
 * Leela stays on Gallifrey.


 * TV: Arc of Infinity
 * Leela has already married.


 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet
 * TV: Mindwarp
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard
 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * Ace is not allowed into the Academy.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * Romana returns from E-Space.


 * PROSE: Goth Opera
 * Occurs after Blood Harvest for Romana. Ruatha states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Romana becomes President.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * Leela is pregnant. The Pythia's curse is lifted.


 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor appears instead of the Seventh, and Romana comments on it. This story takes place shortly before TV: Doctor Who, where a human retinal scan is required to open the Eye of Harmony.


 * AUDIO: Neverland
 * Vansell dies.


 * AUDIO: Zagreus


 * AUDIO: Weapon of Choice
 * Leela is no longer pregnant. Narvin is the new head of the CIA.


 * AUDIO: Square One
 * AUDIO: The Inquiry
 * AUDIO: A Blind Eye


 * AUDIO: Lies
 * AUDIO: Spirit
 * AUDIO: Pandora
 * AUDIO: Insurgency
 * AUDIO: The Chaos Pool
 * The Fifth Doctor is far too young, but appears anyway. AUDIO: The End establishes that Abby, a non-Gallifreyan, studied under Valyes at the Academy.

Ace

 * After the Academy is opened to aliens, Ace enters. However, her post-enrollment stories can't be dated more accurately until Intervention Earth.


 * AUDIO: Good Night Sweet Ladies
 * AUDIO: Random Ghosts
 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis
 * AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion

Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Imperiatrix
 * AUDIO: Fractures
 * AUDIO: Warfare
 * AUDIO: Appropriation
 * AUDIO: Mindbomb
 * AUDIO: Panacea

Romana, Narvin, Leela, Irving
Until Ascension, we see events from the perspective of Romana, Narvin, Leela, and Irving separately from the perspective of Gallifrey proper.
 * AUDIO: Reborn
 * AUDIO: Disassembled

Irving
Until Intervention Earth, Irving's perspective is separate.
 * AUDIO: Judgement Day
 * AUDIO: Paradise Frost
 * AUDIO: Vesuvius Falling
 * AUDIO: Everybody Loves Irving
 * PROSE: Filthy Lucre
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman
 * AUDIO: The Brimstone Kid
 * AUDIO: In Living Memory

Romana, Narvin, Leela

 * AUDIO: Annihilation
 * AUDIO: Forever
 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * AUDIO: Evolution
 * AUDIO: Arbitration
 * AUDIO: Renaissance

Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Human Resources
 * Straxus works for the High Council.


 * AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame
 * AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius
 * AUDIO: The Great War
 * Straxus is now Co-ordinator of the CIA, according to The Death of Hope. The Daleks are trying to remove the Time Lords from time, and vice-versa.


 * AUDIO: Fugitives
 * AUDIO: Tangled Web
 * AUDIO: X and the Daleks
 * AUDIO: Time's Horizon
 * AUDIO: Eyes of the Master
 * The Master is working for Straxus and the CIA. He is supposed to be making it possible for the Eminence to beat the Daleks, but instead plans to build his own Eminence army.


 * AUDIO: Ascension
 * Romana, Narvin, and Leela return to Gallifrey and stop the Dalek invasion they bring with them. Narvin sends Valyes and the Fourth Doctor to remove the Daleks from time, but fails.


 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks
 * Valyes meets the Fourth Doctor instead of his contemporary, the Eighth.


 * AUDIO: The Death of Hope
 * AUDIO: The Reviled
 * AUDIO: Masterplan
 * AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence
 * AUDIO: The Monster of Montmartre
 * AUDIO: Master of the Daleks

The War

 * Romana is eventually succeeded by a new Head of the Presidency.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * Covers the first 50 years of the war.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven-Day Empire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow Play
 * AUDIO: Sabbath Dei
 * AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat
 * AUDIO: Movers
 * AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories
 * AUDIO: Coming to Dust
 * AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years
 * AUDIO: Body Politic
 * AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities
 * AUDIO: Ozymandias
 * AUDIO: The Judgement of Sutekh

The War — Iteration 2

 * PROSE: Alien Bodies
 * The Protocols of Linearity break down, and a young Doctor is involved with War-era events.


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Romana regenerates into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War. In the previous version of the War, only the Master believed it was coming.


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana
 * Romana has regenerated. Gallifrey's "darkest hour" is coming again, i.e. the War.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * A version of Faction Paradox that has become little more than a parody of its former self invades Gallifrey. It may have been rebuilt my Cousin Justine, Mother Francesca, or someone else altogether. Gallifrey is destroyed, averting the War.


 * COMIC: Political Animals
 * COMIC: Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses
 * The War is over.


 * PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles
 * Gallifrey is restored following this story.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven
 * Reference is made to Romana's second term — implied in Intervention Earth to mean her regeneration.


 * AUDIO: The Satanic Mill
 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * Irving returns.

Last Great Time War

 * TV: ''The Night of the Doctor
 * PROSE: Engines of War
 * TV: The End of Time
 * Rassilon attempts to break the time lock.


 * TV: The Last Day
 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * The General mentions Rassilon's plan has already failed. Gallifrey becomes lost in a pocket universe.

After the Time War

 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * TV: Heaven Sent