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History of the Doctor Who Universe

 * The King James Bible is first published. The Doctor met two of its translators, Haldann and Otley, in 1605 (MA: The Plotters).


 * Elizabeth Bathory is walled up alive for slaughtering hundreds of young women and bathing in their blood, believing that doing so would preserve her youth. The Doctor had tried and failed to save one girl from the Blood Countess, and this failure haunts him for centuries. Not mentioned at Elisabeth's trial are the black magic rituals she conducted with Edward Kelley and Francis Pearson, which brought the Mimic to Earth. Horrified by the rituals, Pearson flees back to England, but is pursued by the Mimic, which sees in Pearson's plagiarisms a kindred spirit. (MA: Managra)