1 January

Events
This day was New Year's Day and the first day of the year on Earth.


 * 1966 - The First Doctor's TARDIS departed Trafalgar Square, where it had arrived during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)
 * 2000 - The Eighth Doctor departed San Francisco, where he had landed two days before. (DW: Doctor Who (1996)) Jack Harkness became the leader of Torchwood Three following the death of Alex Hopkins. (TW: Fragments) The Fourth Doctor landed in Paris. (IDW: The Forgotten)
 * 2005 - A dying Tenth Doctor visited Rose Tyler before she had met him. The Doctor commented that she was "gonna have a great year", then saw a vision of Ood Sigma and stumbled back to the TARDIS and regenerated. (DW: The End of Time)

Behind the scenes

 * 1918 - Leonard Trolley (Reynolds in DW: The Faceless Ones) was born.
 * 1935 - Writer Dave Martin was born in Birmingham, England.
 * 1950 - Hugh Hayes (Anithon in DW: Time-Flight) was born.
 * 1957 - Janet Fielding, who played companion Tegan Jovanka, was born in Brisbane, Australia.
 * 1966 - "Volcano", episode 8 of DW: The Daleks' Master Plan, was first broadcast.
 * 1969 - Sophie Okonedo, the voice of companion Alison Cheney and who portrayed Elizabeth X, was born.
 * 1972 - Episode One of DW: Day of the Daleks was first broadcast.
 * 1972 - Neve McIntosh (Alaya and Restac in DW: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) was born.
 * 1977 - Part One of DW: The Face of Evil was first broadcast.
 * 2003 - Cyril Shaps, who had appeared in DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Ambassadors of Death, Planet of the Spiders and The Androids of Tara, died.
 * 2007 - SJA: Invasion of the Bane was first broadcast.
 * 2007 - TW: Captain Jack Harkness was first broadcast.
 * 2007 - TW: End of Days was first broadcast.
 * 2010 - Part Two of DW: The End of Time was first broadcast.
 * 2012 - Bob Anderson, who played a fighting guard in DW: The Enemy of the World, died.