1854

Events

 * 25 October - The Doctor witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade, which he remembered as a "magnificent folly." It may have been while witnessing this event that the Doctor sustained a wound which still bothered him in his third incarnation. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks, The Sea Devils)


 * 5 November - Mollie Dawson's uncle was killed at the Battle of Inkerman. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)

Unknown dates

 * James Clerk Maxwell began his studies of electromagnetism, upon which Theodore Maxtible and Edward Waterfield based their own experiments. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)