1969

January

 * 30 January - The Beatles performed an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple Records building on Abbey Road in London. Ace prevented the killing of John Lennon during this concert. Huitzilin had hoped to feed upon the psychic energy released by the violence. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird) The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones attempted to witness the concert but ended up in 1669 instead. (COMIC: Black Death White Life)

April

 * 8 April - The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song and Canton Delaware were hired by President Richard Nixon to investigate a young girl who kept phoning him. The Doctor traced her to a building in Florida. River and Rory discovered a passageway of ancient caves, populated with aliens whom they would forget about once they looked away. Amy shot the astronaut, thinking it the one who would kill a future version of the Doctor in 2011 (TV: The Impossible Astronaut), though she survived. The suit served as a life support. The group eventually went on the run for several months, uncertain of how to fight these aliens. (TV: Day of the Moon)

May

 * 18 May - The Eighth Doctor, Sam Jones and Fitz Kreiner confronted the 'Revolution Man' at Wembley Stadium. (PROSE: Revolution Man)

Prior to July

 * The Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones and Billy Shipton were touched by the Weeping Angels in 2007 and ended up in this time. Working with future information given to him by Sally Sparrow, the Doctor contacted Shipton and the now-elderly Kathy Nightingale to arrange for messages to be passed on to Sparrow in 2007, one of which was a message recorded by the Doctor. (TV: Blink)

July

 * Before 20 July - After spending months on the run, the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Roy feigned capture, while River leapt out of a building to be caught by the TARDIS, continuing their plot to take down the aliens whom they would forget about when they turned away. Canton captured one of these creatures, who claimed to be of the Silence. The Doctor interrogated it. The Doctor and River discovered the girl who had contacted Nixon had escaped from the astronaut suit. (TV: Day of the Moon)
 * 20 July - Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Martha Jones later claimed she and the Tenth Doctor had seen the event four times. (TV: Blink) The Eleventh Doctor secretly attached a video of one of the Silence saying humans should kill them all on sight to the broadcast of the Moon landing, causing every person who watched the landings to post-hypnotically attack the Silence. (TV: Day of the Moon) The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot played on the beach on the Isle of Wight while most people were inside watching the moon landing. (PROSE: One Small Step)

August

 * 9 August - 10 August - Followers of Charles Manson murdered actress Sharon Tate and others in what would become known as the Helter Skelter killings. The Seventh Doctor theorised Huitzilin influenced the killings after his plot to have John Lennon killed in London had failed. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
 * 15 August - 17 August - The Woodstock Music Festival was held in Woodstock, New York. The Doctor attended the festival twice in two incarnations. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

December

 * 24 December - A ceasefire was held in Vietnam for Christmas. The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited Saigon, where they learned that an alien had crashlanded in the area. (PROSE: Interesting Times)

Unknown dates

 * After serving many years in prison for war crimes, Oskar Steinmann was released due to health problems. (PROSE: Just War)
 * Great Britain readied its Mars Probes. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * The Slakkenkind crashed on Earth having escaped a death sentence set by the Hunter. The Tenth Doctor and Heather McCrimmon arrived, as did the Hunter. The Hunter and the Slakkenind had a showdown as they both threatened the peace of humanity. The Doctor captured the Slakkenkind and they were taken back to their death sentence. (COMIC: The Slakken Cat)
 * The Second Doctor, John and Gillian encountered the Zagbors in London. (COMIC: The Zombies)

January

 * 4 January - TV: The Krotons Episode 2 was first broadcast.
 * 11 January - TV: The Krotons Episode 3 was first broadcast.
 * 18 January - TV: The Krotons Episode 4 was first broadcast.
 * 25 January - TV: The Seeds of Death Episode 1 was first broadcast.

February

 * 1 February - TV: The Seeds of Death Episode 2 was first broadcast.
 * 8 February - TV: The Seeds of Death Episode 3 was first broadcast.
 * 15 February - TV: The Seeds of Death Episode 4 was first broadcast.
 * 22 February - TV: The Seeds of Death Episode 5 was first broadcast.

March

 * 1 March - TV: The Seeds of Death Episode 6 was first broadcast.
 * 8 March - TV: The Space Pirates Episode 1 was first broadcast.
 * 15 March - TV: The Space Pirates Episode 2 was first broadcast.
 * 22 March - TV: The Space Pirates Episode 3 was first broadcast.
 * 29 March - TV: The Space Pirates Episode 4 was first broadcast.

April

 * 5 April - TV: The Space Pirates Episode 5 was first broadcast.
 * 12 April - TV: The Space Pirates Episode 6 was first broadcast. This is the most recent episode for which no copy in any form other than audio is known to survive.
 * 19 April - TV: The War Games Episode 1 was first broadcast.
 * 26 April - TV: The War Games Episode 2 was first broadcast.

May

 * 3 May - TV: The War Games Episode 3 was first broadcast.
 * 3 - Actor Mark Siney was born.
 * 10 May - TV: The War Games Episode 4 was first broadcast.
 * 17 May - TV: The War Games Episode 5 was first broadcast.
 * 21 May - The final episode of The Avengers (created by Sydney Newman) aired in the UK.
 * 24 May - TV: The War Games Episode 6 was first broadcast.
 * 31 May - TV: The War Games Episode 7 was first broadcast.

June

 * 3 June - The final new episode of the original Star Trek series was broadcast in America.
 * 4 June - Executive producer Julie Gardner was born.
 * 7 June - TV: The War Games Episode 8 was first broadcast.
 * 12 June - Final taping session for TV: The War Gamestook place, marking the end of Patrick Troughton's regular involvement with the programme. It was also the last black and white taping session before the conversion to colour production.
 * 14 June - TV: The War Games Episode 9 was first broadcast.
 * 21 June - TV: The War Games Episode 10, concluding Season 6, was first broadcast, ending in Patrick Troughton's regeneration (Jon Pertwee, however, did not appear). Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury also left the series with this episode. The Time Lords and Gallifrey were officially introduced to the series (although the planet's name wasn't revealed for several more years). This was the final episode of the series to be produced in black and white. This end of the series also marked the end of the show's long seasons; beginning in 1970 the number of episodes per season was reduced considerably. The hiatus of more than five months that followed before the start of Season 7 was the longest break for the show to date, although longer intervals are still to come.

July

 * 20 July - The Apollo 11 moon landing took place.
 * 29 July - Actor Simon Chadwick was born.

August

 * 26 August - Actor Martin Miller died from a heart attack in Austria.

September

 * The fifth Doctor Who Annual was published.
 * 6 September - Millennium FX CEO Neill Gorton was born.
 * 13 September - Filming began on TV: Spearhead from Space, the first story to feature Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. This launched colour production for Doctor Who, although in a one-off occurrence, the entirety of Spearhead from Space was shot on film, rather than the standard film/videotape mix which resumed with the second Pertwee story, TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians.


 * 13 December - Actor Tony Curran was born.