Theory:Timeline - 21st century

This page lists the order of stories set on Earth in the 21st century. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

March

 * Rose (TV story)
 * The End of the World (TV story) (Rose calls Jackie who is in modern day)

March

 * Aliens of London (TV story)/World War Three (TV story) All in modern day 1 year after Rose.

September

 * Boom Town (TV story)

November

 * The Parting of the Ways (TV story) Rose looks into the heart of the TARDIS in modern day.

December

 * The Christmas Invasion (TV story) All in modern day.

January

 * New Earth (TV story) Leaves home at the beginning of the episode.
 * School Reunion (TV story)

February, March and April

 * Love & Monsters (TV story)
 * Blink (TV story)

June

 * Army of Ghosts (TV story)/Doomsday (TV story)

August

 * Everything Changes (TV story)
 * Day One (TV story)

September

 * Ghost Machine (TV story)
 * Cyberwoman (TV story)

October

 * Small Worlds (TV story)
 * Countrycide (TV story)

November

 * Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)
 * They Keep Killing Suzie (TV story)

December

 * Random Shoes (TV story)
 * Out of Time (TV story)
 * The Runaway Bride (TV story)

January

 * Combat (TV story)

February

 * Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)
 * End of Days (TV story)
 * Utopia (TV story)

March

 * Invasion of the Bane (TV story)

April

 * Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)
 * Smith and Jones (TV story)
 * The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)
 * 42 (TV story) Phone call to modern day.
 * The Sound of Drums (TV story)/Last of the Time Lords (TV story) The Year That Never Was All in modern day. Occurs from May 2008-May 2009 but is reversed in the end so the episode ends back in May 2008.

May

 * Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)
 * Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)

June

 * Sleeper (TV story)
 * To the Last Man (TV story)

July

 * Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)
 * Meat (TV story)

August

 * Adam (TV story)
 * Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)

September

 * The Lost Boy (TV story)

December

 * Reset (TV story)
 * Dead Man Walking (TV story)
 * Voyage of the Damned (TV story)

January

 * A Day in the Death (TV story)
 * Something Borrowed (TV story)
 * From Out of the Rain (TV story)

February

 * Adrift (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Fragments (TV story)/Exit Wounds (TV story) Modern day scenes.
 * Partners in Crime (TV story) All in modern day.
 * The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)/The Poison Sky (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Dalek (TV story)
 * Daleks are not commonly known.

March

 * The Stolen Earth (TV story)//Journey's End (TV story)
 * The Last Sontaran (TV story)

April

 * Planet of the Dead (TV story)
 * The Day of the Clown (TV story)
 * Secrets of the Stars (TV story)
 * The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)
 * The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)

May

 * Enemy of the Bane (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story) All in modern day.

May

 * The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story) All in modern day.
 * The Mad Woman in the Attic (TV story) All in modern day.

June

 * The Eternity Trap (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story) All in modern day.
 * The Gift (TV story) All in modern day, doing GCSEs.

September

 * Children of Earth: Day One (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Children of Earth: Day Four (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story) All in modern day. Epilogue in March 2010.

December

 * The End of Time (TV story) All in modern day. Donna's wedding in March 2010.

Cracked Timeline

 * The Eleventh Hour (TV story) (ending scene)
 * Flesh and Stone (TV story) (ending scene)
 * The Vampires of Venice (TV story) (opening scene)
 * The Hungry Earth (TV story)/Cold Blood (TV story)
 * Vincent and the Doctor (TV story) Louvres scene is a couple of months out.
 * The Pandorica Opens (TV story)/The Big Bang (TV story) (modern day scenes)

September

 * The Nightmare Man (TV story) All in modern day.
 * The Vault of Secrets (TV story) All in modern day.

October

 * Death of the Doctor (TV story) All in modern day.

November

 * The Empty Planet (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Lost in Time (TV story) All in modern day.

December

 * Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)

No Modern Day Events

 * A Christmas Carol (TV story)

March

 * The New World (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Rendition (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Dead of Night (TV story) All in modern day.

April

 * Escape to LA (TV story) All in modern day.
 * The Impossible Astronaut (TV story) Modern day scenes.

No Modern Day Events

 * Day of the Moon (TV story)
 * The Curse of the Black Spot (TV story)

May

 * The Categories of Life (TV story) All in modern day.

No Modern Day Events

 * The Rebel Flesh (TV story)/The Almost People (TV story) 8 June

June

 * A Good Man Goes to War (TV story) Amy and Rory dropped off in modern day at the end.
 * The Middle Men (TV story) All in modern day.
 * Immortal Sins (TV story) Modern day scenes.

July

 * End of the Road (TV story) All in modern day.

August

 * Let's Kill Hitler (TV story) Opening scene.

September

 * The Gathering (TV story) All in modern day.
 * The Blood Line (TV story) All in modern day.

No Modern Day Dates

 * Night Terrors (TV story) Takes place a few months back.
 * The Girl Who Waited (TV story)
 * The God Complex (TV story)
 * Closing Time (TV story) Takes place back in April.
 * The Wedding of River Song (TV story) Takes place back in April.

December

 * The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (TV story) (ending scene)

April to August

 * Pond Life (TV story)

July

 * Fear Her (TV story)

September

 * Asylum of the Daleks (TV story) (opening)

December

 * Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story) Modern day scenes.

July 2012 to July 2013

 * The Power of Three (TV story)
 * Kate Stewart's first meeting with the 11th Doctor.

March

 * The Bells of Saint John (TV story)
 * The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)
 * The Crimson Horror (TV story)
 * Nightmare in Silver (TV story)
 * The Name of the Doctor (TV story)

November

 * The Day of the Doctor (TV story)

December

 * The Time of the Doctor (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * Deep Breath (TV story) (ending scene)

January

 * Into the Dalek (TV story) (modern day scenes)

No Modern Day Events

 * Robot of Sherwood (TV story)

February

 * Listen (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * Time Heist (TV story) (opening scene)

March

 * The Caretaker (TV story)

May

 * Flatline (TV story)

June

 * In the Forest of the Night (TV story)

July

 * Dark Water (TV story)/Death in Heaven (TV story)

December

 * Last Christmas (TV story)

September

 * The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)/The Witch's Familiar (TV story) Modern day scenes.

November

 * The Zygon Invasion (TV story)/The Zygon Inversion (TV story)

October

 * Kill the Moon (TV story)

November

 * The Waters of Mars (TV story)

