1996

Events

 * 22 January - James Stevens began writing Who Killed Kennedy. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * April - James Stevens went missing, having travelled back in time to Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963 to assassinate U.S. President John F. Kennedy. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
 * (Easter) The newly-regenerated Eleventh Doctor crashed his TARDIS in Amy Pond's back garden in Leadworth. He discovered a mysterious crack in her bedroom wall. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, DWA Issue 161)

Unknown Dates

 * The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister arrived at the Festival of Ghana, pursued by Daleks. (TV: The Chase)
 * The Eighth Doctor was summoned back to Earth via the space-time telegraph by the United Nations to assist them after they were offered the Cold. Samantha Jones met Sarah Jane Smith (who also met the Doctor in his eighth incarnation). (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two)
 * Rex Matheson's father became an alcoholic due to family and financial troubles. (TV: Dead of Night)
 * A NASA shuttle was struck by a meteorite. Millicent Drake was the only survivor of the crew but she lost her limbs, which were replaced by metal prosthetics. (AUDIO: Ferril's Folly)

Alternate timeline
(Easter) Auton Rory Williams finished his job guarding the Pandorica. A version of Amelia Pond rescued her older, nearly-deceased self, who had been inside the Pandorica since 102 A.D., with the younger Amy's DNA. The Eleventh Doctor, having taken a Vortex manipulator from 102, seemed to be killed by a Stone Dalek. River Song killed it shortly afterward. This was a ruse to sneak past and fly the Pandorica with the Doctor inside into his exploding TARDIS to reboot the universe, which was being destroyed by the Time Field. (TV: The Big Bang)