1603

Dates unknown

 * John Dee realizes that the Doctor will pay no further visits to Elizabeth I. Soon afterwards, the queen dies, succeeded by her cousin, James VI of Scotland. When the king arrives to claim his throne as James I of England, he is accompanied by William Lethbridge-Stewart, an ancestor of the Brigadier. (NA: Birthright, The Dying Days)
 * Sir Walter Raleigh is imprisoned in the Tower of London for his involvement in a plot to remove James I from the throne. At some point during his thirteen year imprisonment, he shares a cell with the Doctor and annoys him by going on and on about "some new vegetable he'd discovered." (DW: The Mind of Evil)
 * Francis Pearson writes The Adventures of Macbeth's Head. (MA: Managra)