Theory:Timeline - Time Lords

This page lists appearances of the Time Lords of Gallifrey other than the Doctor and the Master, and other renegades (unless one of them is on official business) 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 cannot 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: Happy Endings and before AUDIO: Enemy Lines.

Series basics
Time Lord stories can very roughly be sorted 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: Blind Fury


 * AUDIO: The Horror at Bletchington Station
 * There's an early unmanned Gallifreyan time probe.


 * AUDIO: Collision Course
 * A group of Time Lords test pilot the first ever TARDIS.


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


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


 * AUDIO: Empire of the Racnoss
 * The Time Lords are at war with the Racnoss.


 * PROSE: Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday


 * PROSE: The Scrolls of Rassilon


 * PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks (flashback)


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow (flashback)


 * COMIC: Star Death


 * COMIC: 4-D War


 * COMIC: Black Sun Rising


 * COMIC: Blood Invocation (Gallifrey perspective)


 * COMIC: The Stolen TARDIS


 * COMIC: Minatorius


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


 * PROSE: Dharmayuddha
 * The anchoring of the thread.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow (flashback)


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


 * PROSE: Entertaining Mr. O
 * Iris Wildthyme, in several incarnations, is summoned to the Death Zone to deal with Morbius.


 * PROSE: The Return of the King
 * Thessalia remembers the Imperator's rise.


 * PROSE: Warmonger


 * PROSE: Newtons Sleep (Thessalia's perspective)
 * Describes the fall of the Imperator.

The First Doctor

 * PROSE: Cold Fusion


 * AUDIO: The Beginning


 * PROSE: The Three Paths
 * Shortly before his regeneration, the First Doctor arrives on Gallifrey on the day he left, and encounters K'anpo Rimpoche.


 * TV: The Name of the Doctor (flashback)
 * One version of the Doctor's departure.


 * PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir
 * Maris is hired to find the Doctor, shortly after he leaves Gallifrey in a stolen Type 40.


 * PROSE: The Massacre

The Second Doctor

 * AUDIO: The Black Hole


 * PROSE: The Time Eater
 * Jamie gets his first look at the Stattenheim remote control, setting this before The Two Doctors. Since Jamie's not described as an adult, and considering the The Two Doctors folllows directly on from World Game, with no plausible gap in between, this must occur during' The Black Hole.


 * TV: The War Games
 * The Doctor is forced to summon the Time Lords to deal with the War Lords. Conceding his point that there is evil to be fought in the universe, the Time Lords sentence the Doctor to be exiled to late 20th century Earth with a forced regeneration.


 * PROSE: World Game


 * PROSE: Players
 * The Doctor becomes a CIA agent.


 * TV: The Two Doctors


 * AUDIO: Helicon Prime


 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative

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 * PROSE: ''[[That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress (short story)|That


 * COMIC: The Night Walkers
 * The Time Lords used animated scarecrows on Earth to force the Doctor's regeneration.


 * PROSE: Time, Love and TARDIS

The Third Doctor

 * PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun
 * The Time Lords release from Shada to keep the Doctor busy on Earth.


 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * A messenger informs the Doctor that the Master has arrived on Earth.


 * PROSE: The Tip of the Mind
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * TV: Colony in Space
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * PROSE: Future Imperfect


 * TV: The Three Doctors
 * As a thanks for his efforts in stopping the return of Omega, the Time Lords lift the Doctor's exile.


 * PROSE: The Empire of Glass
 * Just after The Three Doctors, synchronously with the Third Doctor.


 * AUDIO: The Inquiry (flashback)
 * Braxiatel has just returned from some ambassadorial missions.

The Fourth Doctor

 * PROSE: A Device of Death


 * COMIC: Return of the Daleks
 * The Doctor and Sarah Jane foil a Dalek plot to build a fleet of TARDISes. The Time Lords appear as they did in The Three Doctors.


 * COMIC: The Dalek Revenge
 * The Time Lords send the Doctor and Sarah Jane to the planet Ecros, where they thwart a Dalek plot to destroy Earth.


 * TV: The Brain of Morbius


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin


 * AUDIO: The King of Sontar
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * TV: The Invasion of Time
 * The Doctor is made president, Leela and K9 Mark I stay on Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Lies
 * Romana I is in the academy, and it is a year before she graduates. She meets her future self in the matrix, before having her memory of the events wiped by Braxiatel.


 * TV: The Ribos Operation
 * Romana arrives in the Doctor's TARDIS from Gallifrey, brought there by the White Guardian, although she thinks she was brought there by the new president of Gallifrey.


 * PROSE: K9 and the Time Trap


 * PROSE: K9 and the Beasts of Vega


 * PROSE: K9 and the Zeta Rescue


 * PROSE: K9 and the Missing Planet
 * K9 Mark I is working for the Time Lords.


 * TV: Meglos / Full Circle
 * The Time Lords call Romana back to Gallifrey, however she and the Doctor end up in E-Space instead.

The Fifth Doctor

 * COMIC: The Tides of Time


 * COMIC: The Stockbridge Horror


 * AUDIO: Circular Time: Spring


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


 * AUDIO: Omega


 * TV: The Five Doctors


 * AUDIO: Time in Office


 * AUDIO: Urban Myths

The Sixth Doctor

 * TV: The Twin Dilemma


 * TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * The Doctor believes that the Time Lords are using him as a tool to thwart a plot by time travelling Cybermen to destroy Earth and save Mondas in 1985.


 * PROSE: Mission to Magnus


 * AUDIO: The Wings of a Butterfly


 * COMIC: The World Shapers


 * AUDIO: Slipback
 * A Time Lord member of the high council instructs the Doctor not to interfere in the events occurring on the ship Vipod Mor.


 * TV: The Mysterious Planet
 * The Sixth Doctor is put on trial.


 * TV: Mindwarp
 * The trial continues.


 * PROSE: Interstitial Insecurity
 * Set during The Trial of a Time Lord, between Mindwarp and Terror of the Vervoids.


 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids
 * The trial continues.


 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * The trial concludes.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * Set during The Ultimate Foe. During his fight with the Valeyard in the Matrix, The Doctor's eighth incarnation comes to his aid.


 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time


 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox


 * AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard


 * AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion


 * AUDIO: The Brink of Death

The Seventh Doctor

 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * Ace is not allowed into the Academy.


 * PROSE: The Dimension Riders


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


 * PROSE: Goth Opera
 * Ruatha deliberately asynchronously involves the Fifth Doctor. She states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.


 * AUDIO: The Chaos Pool
 * Romana has been working closely with the High Council, but is not yet president. She plans to bring Amy to the academy in attempt to convince them to open it to non-Gallifreyans. Romana says she has suffered from the effects of the decaying key of time since she arrived back from E-space.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * Flavia is President.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Romana becomes President.


 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor is the wrong incarnation, and Romana comments on it. Gallifreyan security systems are changed to require a human retinal scan. The Lord President has come back into office after Romana went missing.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven
 * After delivering the Eleven to the Time Lords, The Doctor is asked by Romana to go on one final mission, leading into Doctor Who.

The Eighth Doctor

 * TV: Doctor Who
 * As part of a treaty with the Daleks, the Time Lords send the Master to Skaro in order to face trial.


 * COMIC: The Final Chapter
 * Rassilon inhabits the Matrix.


 * WC: Shada


 * PROSE: The Time Lord's Story
 * Set immediately after Shada, upon Romana's return to Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus
 * In a flashback set on Gallifrey, Hallan informs Braxiatel that Darkel wishes to speak to him.


 * AUDIO: Neverland
 * Vansell is Killeen during an encounter with the Neverpeople.


 * AUDIO: Zagreus
 * Rassilon escapes the Matrix. Romana and Leela meet for the first time.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * Romana and Leela already know each other, and Leela becomes pregnant with Andred's child.


 * PROSE: Dead Romance


 * PROSE: Tears of the Oracle


 * PROSE: Where Angels Fear
 * PROSE: Twilight of the Gods


 * PROSE: The Banquo Legacy

The Timeonic Fusion Device

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


 * AUDIO: Square One


 * AUDIO: The Inquiry
 * Set two weeks after Weapon of Choice.


 * AUDIO: A Blind Eye

The Pandora Devastation

 * AUDIO: Lies
 * Set seven weeks after A Blind Eye.


 * AUDIO: Spirit
 * Set one week after Lies. Leela has lived on Gallifrey for 25 years.


 * AUDIO: Pandora
 * AUDIO: Insurgency
 * AUDIO: Imperiatrix

Civil War

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

Exploring Alternate Gallifreys

 * AUDIO: Reborn
 * AUDIO: Disassembled
 * Braxiatel falls through the Axis and seemingly ends up back in his own universe. He meets Bernice Summerfield seemingly for the first time on Dellah, leading directly into Dragon's Wrath.


 * PROSE: Dragons' Wrath


 * AUDIO: Annihilation
 * AUDIO: Forever
 * Romana, Leela and Narvin arrive on a Gallifrey where Time Travel was never discovered, home to the regenerators.


 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * Set many months after Forever.


 * AUDIO: Evolution
 * Set nine months after Forever.


 * AUDIO: Arbitration

Gallifrey Restored

 * AUDIO: Extermination
 * Following a Dalek Invasion, Romana, Narvin and Leela leave the Alternate Gallifrey and return to their own.


 * AUDIO: Renaissance
 * Set weeks after Extermination.


 * AUDIO: Ascension


 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks
 * Valyes travels back in time to give the Fourth Doctor the ultimately unsuccessful mission to prevent the creation of the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Dominion
 * Ace, an alien, is allowed into the Academy.

War in Heaven

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and flashbacks to Romana III's world.


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Romana II regenerates into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War.

The War King's Gallifrey

 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors
 * Romana has long since disappeared to another of the nine Gallifreys. The Master returns and becomes the Magistrate. Umbaste is president.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies (flashbacks from Qixotl and the Shift)
 * The War begins in the Cataclysm.


 * PROSE: Newtons Sleep
 * The Second Wave is devastating Faction Paradox (6th year of the War)


 * PROSE: Against Nature
 * The Fourth Wave (y17) exists. The Eleven-Day Empire is still intact.


 * PROSE: Warlords of Utopia
 * 46th year of the War.


 * PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage
 * Scarratt recalls the war between alternate Romes and alternate Germanys.


 * AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
 * Arbitrary positioning. The War is ongoing, the Faction exists enough to care about, Cwejen are in use. Straxus isn't dead, tentatively placing the War before Dark Eyes.


 * PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy
 * Arbitrary positioning. A humanoid timeship appears.


 * PROSE: Head of State (past Burton)
 * Arbitrary positioning. Lolita is spending time on Gallifrey; she has her baby with her.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War (for the authors)
 * 50th year of the War. Mictlan still exists. Justine is being moved from Dronid to Earth.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies (for the Faction)
 * Justine fails her first mission.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire / The Shadow Play
 * House Tracolix and House Lolita destroy the Eleven-Day Empire.


 * AUDIO: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat
 * Justine is tried and convicted for the Grandfather's crimes.


 * AUDIO: Movers / A Labyrinth of Histories
 * Justine escapes from the prison-planet.


 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5
 * Mictlan is destroyed. The War King is still alive.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War (for the Shift)
 * AUDIO: Coming to Dust
 * Justine is still trying to reestablish the Faction in the 1780s.


 * AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years
 * AUDIO: Body Politic
 * AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities
 * The War King is killed and Lolita becomes Lord President.


 * AUDIO: Ozymandias
 * AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh
 * Horus invades Gallifrey with his Osirian army. He says Lolita won't be a concern anymore.

Romana's Gallifrey

 * Romana III is unwittingly transferred to the ninth Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns.


 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Ace/Narvin post-Intervention Earth execution scene.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * Romana's Gallifrey is destroyed. The Eleven-Day Empire still exists.

Post-War Universe

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


 * PROSE: Escape Velocity
 * The Doctor emerges from his 100-year exile on Earth.


 * PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * The Doctor sees Gallifrey in the Kingdom of Beasts.


 * WC: Death Comes to Time
 * There are very few Time Lords left, and their role in reality is being replaced.


 * PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles
 * The Doctor is planning to restore Gallifrey.


 * PROSE: Father Time
 * In the far future, the last surviving Time Lord (implied to be the Doctor) ruled the universe from the Needle.


 * PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers
 * COMIC: Miranda
 * PROSE: Sometime Never...

A War to Come

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and last timeline. Romana II steps down from the Presidency.


 * AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks
 * Lucie Miller is deposited in the Doctor's TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Human Resources


 * AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame
 * "Lesser species" aren't allowed on Gallifrey, and Timescoops are being used.


 * AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius
 * The Sisterhood of Karn starts to become involved in politics.


 * AUDIO: Nevermore
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: The Great War
 * According to The Death of Hope, Straxus is Coordinator of the CIA.


 * AUDIO: Fugitives


 * AUDIO: Tangled Web


 * AUDIO: X and the Daleks
 * Straxus dies, so probably chronologically later than the beginning of the War. Daleks and Time Lords are taking aggressive, temporal action against each other.


 * AUDIO: Scenes From Her Life (flashbacks)
 * Caleera's flashbacks set before and during the events of The Eleven.


 * AUDIO: Stop the Clock (opening scene)
 * Padrac recruits Caleera to the Doom Coalition


 * AUDIO: The Eleven
 * The president is away on ambassadorial duties, and is confirmed not to be Romana. Farina is CIA Coordinator and there are aliens in the Academy. The Doctor describes the current regime as "progressive."


 * AUDIO: The Satanic Mill


 * AUDIO: The Crucible of Souls


 * AUDIO: Companion Piece
 * Follows on from The Crucible of Souls with The Nine escaping the Chancellery Guard.


 * AUDIO: Songs of Love
 * Padrac is referred to as Cardinal Prime before he usurps the presidency.


 * AUDIO: The Side of the Angels


 * AUDIO: Stop the Clock
 * Padrac is deposed, then killed by The Red Lady.


 * AUDIO: Deeptime Frontier


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master


 * AUDIO: The Death of Hope
 * Narvin is "Coordinator in extremis" of the CIA. According to Desperate Measures, as Coordinator in Extremis Narvin made Trips to the past and future in order to try and avert the upcoming Time War.


 * AUDIO: The Reviled


 * AUDIO: Masterplan


 * AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence


 * AUDIO: Sins of the Father
 * The Time War has not officially begun, but fighting has started in some areas. Narvin collects some swenyo from the Master, who has been working on behalf of the Time Lords.

The Last Great Time War

 * AUDIO:  Celestial Intervention
 * Livia is President and declares the start of the Time War. Romana is the current coordinator of the CIA. Ending leads directly into Soldier Obscura.


 * AUDIO: Soldier Obscura
 * Romana orders Narvin to contact The Master, leading directly into The Devil You Know.


 * AUDIO: The Devil You Know


 * AUDIO: Desperate Measures


 * AUDIO: Havoc


 * AUDIO: Partisans


 * AUDIO: Collateral


 * AUDIO: Assassins


 * PROSE: The Stranger
 * Set during the First Segment of the War.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, therefore the Time War is in its early days.


 * PROSE: Natural Regression
 * The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, but has cut his hair, placing it after The Forgotten.


 * AUDIO: Day of the Vashta Nerada


 * AUDIO: The Starship of Theseus
 * The CIA send an operative after Quarren Maguire, but he is killed by the Daleks before completing his mission.


 * AUDIO: Echoes of War
 * Follows directly on from The Starship of Theseus. Ollistra and Tamasan detain the Eighth Doctor and his associates on an Unnamed planet.


 * AUDIO: The Conscript
 * Ollistra conscripts The Doctor into the Time Lord army. The conscription is relatively new as the Doctor wasn’t aware of it before. The War has been going on for at least two centuries for the Time Lords and the Doctor has a reputation as a deserter.


 * AUDIO: One Life
 * Set immediately after The Conscript, With Ollistra escaping the Tenacity system in the Doctor's TARDIS while Tamasan leads the conscripts in a battle against the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Lords of Terror
 * As a result of the Battle of Tenacity, Tamasan has regenerated and been promoted to the rank of Major. Carvill has been on Derilobia for 20 years.


 * AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons
 * The Doctor and Bliss encounter the Twelve while on holiday, and learn that she is now working with the Time Lords, and wants the Doctor's aid to investigate the mystery of an Ogron possessing his DNA and some of his brain patterns. The Doctor, Bliss and the Twelve are captured by the Daleks, leading into In the Garden of Death.


 * AUDIO: In the Garden of Death


 * AUDIO: Jonah
 * The Doctor, Bliss and the Twelve return to Gallifrey to collect the Doctor's TARDIS, setting this immediately after In the Garden of Death.


 * AUDIO: State of Bliss
 * A new incarnation of Major Tamasan requests the Doctor's help.


 * AUDIO: The Famished Lands


 * AUDIO: Fugitive in Time


 * AUDIO: The War Valeyard


 * TV: The Night of the Doctor
 * The Sisterhood of Karn is involved in the Time War, enabling a dying Doctor to regenerate into a warrior.


 * COMIC: Pull to Open


 * COMIC: Outrun


 * COMIC: The Then and the Now


 * COMIC: First Rule


 * COMIC: The Organ Grinder


 * COMIC: Kill God


 * COMIC: Fast Asleep


 * AUDIO: The Innocent


 * AUDIO: The Thousand Worlds


 * AUDIO: The Heart of the Battle


 * AUDIO: Legion of the Lost


 * AUDIO: A Thing of Guile


 * AUDIO: The Neverwhen


 * AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex


 * AUDIO: The Eternity Cage


 * AUDIO: Eye of Harmony


 * AUDIO: Pretty Lies


 * AUDIO: The Lady of Obsidian


 * AUDIO: The Enigma Dimension


 * COMIC: Four Doctors


 * PROSE: The Stranger


 * PROSE: Engines of War
 * Takes place 400 years after The Night of the Doctor.


 * TV: The Last Day
 * Takes place at the Fall of Arcadia before the scenes in The Day of the Doctor.


 * COMIC: Sky Jacks
 * Priyan tells Engin that Rassilon is initiating the Ultimate Sanction, placing it just before The End of Time.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * Set on the last day of the Time War. Dalek saucers are already on Gallifrey, placing it after The Last Day.


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


 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * Gallifrey is still outside the normal universe.

The End of the Universe

 * PROSE: Lords and Masters
 * General Kenossium is still in his male incarnation.


 * TV: Heaven Sent
 * The Doctor's Confession Dial is transferred to Gallifrey. Ending leads directly into Hell Bent.


 * TV: Hell Bent
 * Gallifrey has escaped the pocket universe and is now situated at the end of the Universe. The General regenerates into a female incarnation.


 * COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen
 * Gallifrey is situated beyond the frontier in time.


 * COMIC: The Clockwise War
 * General Kenossium is in her Hell Bent incarnation.

Unplaced

 * AUDIO: Second Sight
 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * AUDIO: Collision Course
 * Romana II's Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master
 * Rassilon sends ships to destroy Kolstan.


 * PROSE: The Third Wise Man