London

London was the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England.

History
The name London came from the Latin name Londinium, the city having been founded by the Romans during their reign over the island. Barbara Wright's casual mention of coming from Londinium during a visit to Rome in the year 64 led to her and Ian Chesterton being abducted and sold into slavery, as the recently conquered Britons were not, at that time, Roman citizens. (DW: The Romans)

Early history
In 1666, the Great Fire of London swept through and destroyed a large part of the City of London, caused by the destruction of a Terileptil base. (DW: The Visitation)


 * The Fourth Doctor had also earlier implied involvement in this event. (DW: Pyramids of Mars)

On 14th September 1752, the standard dating system in the British Empire shifted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, as a result of which, it lost eleven days. Thereafter, the Eleven-Day Empire used a shadow version of London as their capital. (EDA: Alien Bodies, BBV: The Eleven Day Empire)

20th and 21st century
London was evacuated several times during the late 20th century, most notably during the activities of Operation Golden Age where it remained mostly unoccupied, aside from UNIT and scattered looters (DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs); however little lasting damage to the city occurred during these evacuations. Specific locations and landmarks featuring in twentieth century events included the Post Office Tower (DW: The War Machines), the London Underground (especially Goodge Street Station) (DW: The Web of Fear), Saint Paul's Cathedral (DW: The Invasion) and Heathrow Airport (DW: Time-Flight).

By the early 21st century a surprisingly large number of London landmarks had secret bases of either human or alien origin located beneath them. The London Eye was integral to the plans of the Nestene Consciousness to invade in 2005 (DW: Rose). The Tower of London, was a UNIT command centre (DW: The Christmas Invasion).

Canary Wharf housed the Torchwood One tower, which the Institute had constructed in order to study a mysterious phenomena (actually an entrance into the Void) five hundred feet above the city. The Institute built a skyscraper in order to investigate it (DW: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday).

The Institute also maintained an installation at the Thames Flood Barrier which was later taken over by the Empress of the Racnoss. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

During a fake crash landing made by the Slitheen Family Big Ben was partly destroyed. (DW: Aliens of London)

In 2012 was the London Olympics and during the opening ceremony everyone vanished from the stadium after Chloe Webber, possessed by a lonely Isolus, made them vanish into a drawing. (DW: Fear Her)

On a smaller scale, a suburban home on Bannerman Road served as an informal base for the home's owner, Sarah Jane Smith for the investigation of alien activities on Earth. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane, Revenge of the Slitheen, Eye of the Gorgon et al.)

In 2096, following the devastating Myloki conflict of the 2060s, London was ravaged and poverty stricken. A paramilitary force called the City Militia imposed a brutal order on East London. The City of London, owned by the world's remaining banks, was relatively stable but operated on a caste-system based around slavery. The clandestine SILHOET organisation maintained a covert HQ in the old British Film and Television Corporation building. (PDA: The Indestructible Man)

Later history
The city was largely abandoned during the 22nd century Dalek invasion. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, EDA: Alien Bodies)

By the 28th century, London was known as Central City and covered most of southern England. (DW: The Sensorites, The Daleks' Master Plan)


 * The name as well as the importance of some of the activities there, implied it had by then become the capital of Earth and by extension, the Sol system.

In 4039, many prominent London landmarks, such as Big Ben, still existed prior to their destruction by the invading Graxnix, and the city again went by the name of London, rather than Central City. (DWM: Hotel Historia)

17th century
In 1666, the Great Fire of London starts on Pudding Lane after the Fifth Doctor has an encounter with some Terileptils. (DW: The Visitation)

18th century
In 1752, the Eleven-Day Empire was founded. It had its capital in a version of London. (EDA: Alien Bodies, BBV: The Eleven Day Empire)

19th century
Spring-heeled Jack attacked a number of women in London while searching for Morjanus. The Eighth Doctor assits Jack in defeated Morjanus and the Pyrodines. (DWM: The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack)

The Tong of the Black Scorpion and Li H'sen Chang carried out a series of abductions at the behest of Magnus Greel that centred around London. Greel owned the House of the Dragon, a building in London from where he operated. (DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

20th century
In 1941, he Blitz saw London bombed nearly every night. The Empty Child plague occurred during this time. (DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, Victory of the Daleks)

In 1953, Londoners with televisions supplied by Mr Magpie had their faces stolen by the Wire, which used television transmissions to spread. It attempted to transmit itself to the whole country of England using the BBC's Alexandra Palace transmitter. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern)

In 1963, the Shoreditch Incident saw Daleks engage in fighting with one another in London. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)

In 1966, WOTAN, located at the top of the Post Office Tower, attempted a takeover of Earth with mind control and its robots, the War Machines. (DW: The War Machines)

Robot Yeti invaded London. The city was evacuated and the London Underground saw pitched battles between British soldiers and Yeti. (DW: The Web of Fear)

London was invaded by Cybermen with the assistance of Tobias Vaughn. (DW: The Invasion) After their defeat, some Cybermen still survived in the London sewers and carried out occasional cyber-conversions until 1985. (DW: Attack of the Cybermen, Dalek)

The Silurian virus began to spread throughout the city. (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians)

London was evacuated as a result of Operation Golden Age. (DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

In 1976, Big Ben was destroyed by bombing. (NA: No Future)

In 1983, Ace burnt down Gabriel Chase, a mansion in Perivale. (DW: Ghost Light)

In 1984, British troops battled a Dalek in the docklands. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)

In 1989, a number of young people in Perivale disappeared mysteriously. This was due to the Master being in League with the Cheetah People. (DW: Survival)

21st century
In 2005, Nestenes activated Autons made to look shop window mannequins, who killed many bystanders before the Ninth Doctor destroyed the Nestene, deactivating the Autons. (DW: Rose, Love & Monsters)

In 2006, a Slitheen craft crashed into Big Ben, cutting the clock face in half. It then crashed into the River Thames. (DW: Aliens of London, Love & Monsters) The next day, 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a human guided missile. (DW: World War Three)

During Christmas 2006, a Sycorax ship entered London airspace. The sonic boom caused glass to shatter for miles around. People were taken over by blood control and all stood on the top of tall structures. The ship left, but was destroyed by a Torchwood Institute energy weapon. That evening, the remains of the ship, in the form of ash, drifted down upon the city like snow. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, School Reunion, Love & Monsters)

In 2007, the Battle of Canary Wharf saw Daleks and Cybermen invade London. (DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

During Christmas 2007, the Empress of the Racnoss attempted to release the last generation of her children from her base in the Thames barrier. She was eventually shot down in her Webstar by British Army tanks following orders from Mr. Saxon, but the result was that the Thames was drained when the Doctor drowned the Racnoss children. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

In 2008, the Judoon searched for a Plasmavore in the Royal Hope Hospital and transported it to the Moon using an H20 Scoop. The hospital was later returned. (DW: Smith and Jones)

Professor Lazarus created a machine which made him younger, yet it also mutated him. (DW: The Lazarus Experiment)

Harold Saxon becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He then revealed his true identity as the Master and sent billions of Toclafane to enslave the planet. One year on, time was reversed, and everything went back to normal. (DW: The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords)

During Christmas 2008, the Titanic nearly crashed into Buckingham Palace, but the crash was averted by the Tenth Doctor. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

In 2009, Adipose Pills were distributed all over London, then later thousands of young Adipose were born and marched along the streets of London. A Nursery Ship took the Adipose away. (DW: Partners in Crime)

The Sontarans attempted to choke all life on Earth with the newly introduced ATMOS in order to create a hatchery that would increase their troop production for the Rutan-Sontaran War. They were thwarted by the combined efforts of the Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble, and Martha Jones with Luke Rattigan destroying their ship. The epicentre of the Sontaran invasion was the ATMOS factory in London. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)

During 2009 Easter, a wormhole measuring nearly 10km high appeared in a tunnel in London. It lead to the planet San Helios. It was during this time several members of an unidentified race tried to cross over to the Earth through the wormhole. (DW: Planet of the Dead)

In September, the 456 returned to Earth, and possessed every child on the planet to relay messages. They then arrived in Thames House, London. Torchwood 3 journeyed to London to help deal with the 456 and exposed the corrupt responses of the government. (TW: Children of Earth)

In December, The Master was resurrected on Earth during Christmas, and used the Immortality Gate to convert every human being into a version of himself. The Time Lords, led by Rassilon, used the drumbeat within the Master's head and a Whitepoint Star to break through the time-lock, and escape the Time War. They planned to erase all of creation in order to ascend to a higher form of existence. They crossed through the gate, arriving in the mansion of Joshua Naismith in London. They were defeated by the Tenth Doctor and the Master. (DW: The End of Time)

In 2050, the Jixen travelled to London via a Fallen Angel. K9 followed them and defeated them he then changed his form. (K9TV: Regeneration)

An entity creating fear caused widespread riots and panic across London. (K9TV: Fear Itself)

London was battered by storms caused by the mating call of an Aeolian. (K9TV: Aeolian)

22nd century
Circa 2157, London was turned into a ghost city following the 22nd century Dalek invasion. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, EDA: Alien Bodies)

Circa 2167, with the Daleks now defeated, the city was re-built and re-populated. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks)

In 2190s, London was again attacked by the Daleks. (BFA: Lucie Miller, To the Death)

23rd century
London was flooded when sea levels rose due to global warming. (VG: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada)

28th century
By the 28th century London, and the whole lower half of England, was incorporated in a very large city called Central City. (DW: The Sensorites)

40th century
By the year 4000, London, continued to be known as Central City, it served as the apparent capital of Earth. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)

Television

 * Susan Foreman (Shoreditch)
 * Barbara Wright
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Dodo Chaplet
 * Ben Jackson
 * Polly
 * Victoria Waterfield
 * Liz Shaw
 * Jo Grant
 * Sarah Jane Smith (South Croydon, later Ealing)
 * Harry Sullivan
 * Ace (Perivale)
 * Rose Tyler
 * Mickey Smith
 * Donna Noble (Chiswick)
 * Martha Jones
 * Adelaide Brooke (Finchley)
 * Wilfred Mott (Chiswick)

Comics
to be added

Novels

 * Samantha Jones

Audio adventures

 * Evelyn Smythe
 * Thomas Brewster

Television

 * John Benton
 * Mike Yates
 * Maria Jackson
 * Alan Jackson
 * Chrissie Jackson
 * Luke Smith
 * Clyde Langer

Other information

 * London was the location of the production team for Doctor Who from Seasons 1 through 26.
 * Location filming took part in London for a number of Doctor Who stories.
 * Doctor Who's first Producer, Verity Lambert was born in London.